Marion Jones (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American athlete, winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She holds dual citizenship from the United states & Belize (where her personal is from either) & she marks her triumph sustaining a flags of both nations.

Sports career
Excelling around each basketball and athletics (she was a participant in the 1992 Globe Junior Championships), Jones revolve around basketball, swimming on the North Carolina team that won the NCAA Women's Championship in 1994. After Jones wasted the spot on the 1996 Olympic team because of an injury, she decided to concentrate on athletics.

She immediately won her number one major international championships, becoming the Centred metre World Champion in Athens in 1997, while finishing 10th in the long jump. At a 1999 World Championships, Jones attempted to win four titles, however wounded herself in the 200 m fallowing the gold in the Century m & an extended go for it bronze. The dominant click inside women's sprinting, Jones was upset in a Hundred m at the 2001 World Championships, as Ukrainian Zhanna Pintusevich-Block beat her inside the 100 m, her number one loss in the event in sextuplet years. Jones, nonetheless, did claim a gold inside each a 200 m & Quaternion 10 Century m.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency investigated for possible drug use, in conjunction with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative scandal.

In her 2004 Olympics experience, Jones said "It's extremely disappointing, words can't put it into perspective." [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&storyID=6092497 (Reuters)] She come inside fifth in the long jump and competed in the women's 4 x 100m relay where they swept past the competition in the preliminaries only to miss a baton pass in the final race. Jones promised that her latest kill would non become a prevent of her Olympic efforts.

In December 3, 2004, Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO, appeared in an locate by having Martin Bashir on ABC's 20/20. In a locate, Conte alleged that Jones experienced utilized 5 different illegal performance enhancing doses prior to, when you took & when the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

Personal life
Off a track, Jones married shot putter C.J. Hunter, who was a coach on the University of North Carolina track team, in 1998. Hunter was compulsory to resign his position at UNC because of school system that prohibited coach-athlete dating. He was banned from either a 2000 Olympics after having tested caring for nandrolone. It divorced a year late.

Inside 2003, Marion Jones gave birth to a boy, Tim Jr., known as fallowing his father Tim Montgomery, who broke a 100 m World Record in 2002. Because of her pregnancy, Jones missed the 2003 Globe Championships, however spent a year preparing for the 2004 Olympics.