Why Is Marion Jones Banned

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Marion Jones is a former American track and field champion as well as a professional basketball player for the WNBA. She was the first woman to win 5 track and field medals at a single Olympics. In 2006 Marion Jones tested positive for a banned substance, it was later cleared by a follow up test. But in 2007 Jones admitted to using banned substances and later returned her Olympic Medals. She had been using THG, a powerful anabolic steroid, in a letter she claimed at the time she was unaware that it was a banned substance. She said her former coach Trevor Graham gave her the drug, telling her it was flaxseed oil. According to the Washington Post Jones wrote: “Red flags should have been raised in my head when he told me not to tell anyone” [in

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