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Marion Jones says she is sorry for lying to federal investigators: Marion Jones wants you to know she is sorry.
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Not so much about the performance-enhancing drugs she took — unknowingly, she contends — when she was the most famous and lauded track athlete in the world, a winner of five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, medals she no longer owns.
What Jones really wants you to know is she is sorry for lying to federal investigators about her drug use. That, and her role in a check-fraud scam, are what landed her in prison for six months in 2008, during which she spent 1 ½ months in solitary confinement after fighting another inmate.
“I surely wish that I could go back and change certain things in my past, on one hand, but then I wouldn’t be who I am today, someone who I’m actually really proud of,” the 35-year-old Jones said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Jones’ priorities, goals and the way she makes decisions are rather different, due in part to what she said is her faith. Her book, “On the Right Track,” due out Tuesday, quotes Bible passages.
“My story is unique, in that the first part of my life, my journey, I hit the pinnacle of my career, and it was a very public career, and then I made decisions that cost me all of that,” Jones said. “And so I was at that low point. But I didn’t give up.”
The 213-page book was written with Maggie Greenwood-Robinson.
Jones writes about fearing her life was in danger during a five-minute tussle with a roommate.
Jones said she emerged uninjured, but the other woman’s face “was bruised and bloody.”
Jones played for the WNBA Tulsa Shock last season, but isn’t certain she will be asked to return for another season.
source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
Carolina Kostner wins the ISU GP NHK Trophy 2010 in Nagoya!
Japan's Mao Asada performs in the ladies short program at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Nagoya, central Japan, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) Photo Credit: AP Photo
World champion Mao Asada could only finish eighth in the women’s short programme at the NHK Trophy in Nagoya as Carolina Kostner took the lead.
Japan’s Asada finished the day on just 47.95 points after two-footing the landing on her opening triple axel and singling a triple flip.
Italy’s Kostner heads the standing at the halfway point of the ladies’ competition at the first of six grand prix events this season after she earned 57.27 points for her programme skated to Galicia Flamenco.
World junior champion Kanako Murakami of Japan is second with 56.10 points, with the USA’s Rachael Flatt third on 53.69.
“Tonight was not perfect,” Asada said of her routine with new coach Nobuo Sato. “I’ve been feeling only 50 per cent with this routine at practice. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad.”
USA’s Meryl Davis and Charlie White lead the ice dance category after the short dance. The Olympic silver medallists scored 66.97 points to top the standings ahead of Canada’s Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje (58.69) and Russia’s Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov (56.89).
“I think it was a solid performance given that it’s early in the season,” Flatt said. “I feel pretty good about my chances.”
The pairs short programme is going to form with world champions Qing Pang and Jia Tong of China claiming the lead with a score of 67.10 points.
Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov of Russia were second with 60.16 points, while Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran of Japan were third with 57.23.
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source: uk.eurosport.yahoo.com
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