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cheapbag214s · Posted: Mon 0:59, 26 Aug 2013 Post subject: A web spun of lies

A web spun of lies
It must be comforting to Olympic officials to know the next sprinter in line to receive Marion Jones' 100-metre gold medal from the Sydney Games is Ekaterina Thanou of Greece,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
This isn't clean cut Canadian cross-country skier Beckie Scott finally getting justice when the two Russians who finished ahead of her were caught cheating at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
You might remember Thanou from the 2004 Athens Olympics. She and teammate Konstadinos Kederis skipped a drug test right before the Games and showed up at a local hospital,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], claiming to have been in a motorcycle accident. Both later pulled out of the Games.
It'll be a bit like Carl Lewis getting Ben Johnson's gold in Seoul. Olympic trials. Next in line after Lewis was Linford Christie of Great Britain. He inspires confidence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too. He was let off in Seoul after testing positive for a stimulant but was caught using steroids in 1999.
Indeed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is a tangled web these athletes weave - and Jones had no peers as its Spiderwoman.
She represents the big lie that many athletes live. Hunter when it was reported he'd tested positive four times for steroids.
Who can forget Jones's performance at Sydney,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], holding hands with Hunter as they showed up at his news conference. She was American's track sweetheart with her five medals in Sydney and she was calm and cool in delivering her lies,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], often with a sweet gap-toothed smile as a kicker. She earnestly professed her belief in the innocence of Hunter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who rewarded that faith by eventually helping bring her down.
"I think if you say the lie often enough,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you actually start to believe it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Canada's Dick Pound, the point man in the IOC's battle with drug cheats,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said yesterday. "That's where you get into trouble. As Ann Kilion wrote in the San Jose Mercury News, "If Marion Jones perpetuated a fraud on the American public,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I - along with the majority of my colleagues - was her accomplice."
Let's not forget the corporate piece in all of this. Jones was supported by many big corporations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including Nike,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], right up until the point that the bad publicity started to affect sales.
One recalls a press conference staged with much fanfare in Edmonton by Nike before the 2001 world championships where Jones was the main attraction. Questions on doping were not being allowed, said a sanctimonious prig from Nike, because they didn't fit in with the spirit of the event.
Nike now says they won't be asking Jones for their money back,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which is a good thing since she's blown it all and is deep in debt. Besides, the Swoosh boys got their money's worth in publicity.
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