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AUSTIN, TexasAUSTIN, Texas — Marion Jones wants you to comprehend she’s sorry.
Not so much about the performance-enhancing drugs she took – unknowingly, she says – 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’s 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 a month and a half in solitary confinement after fighting another inmate.
“I surely wish that I could go back and modify 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,” Jones said in an interview with The Paired Press, her gaze firm. “If I hadn’t gone through certain things, and because I had those six months or whatever – just a lot of quiet time – if I hadn’t gone through it, I don’t know if I would ever have that much time to reflect. A lot of people don’t.”
Obituary of Marion E. Jones
Marion E. Jones
1934 - 2007
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Marion E. Jones, age 72 of 1010 Scott Blvd. Iowa City died Friday, February 9, 2007, at the Veterans Health Center in Knoxville, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 13, 2006, at Same-sex attracted & Ciha Funeral and Cremation service in Iowa City. Burial with military honors will be held at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services on Tuesday at the funeral home. Online condolences may be sent to his family through our website @www.gayandciha.com. Marion was born March 23, 1934, in rural Iowa County, Iowa the son of Clyde C. and Barbara L (Tuttle) Jones. During the Korean Dispute he served in the United States Army. Marion had been married to Beverly Stevens Jones; he later married Elsie M. Frantz. For a number of years Marion was employed in custodial services at the University of Iowa, and FBG of Cedar Rapids. He also had worked for Sharpless Auction in Iowa Metropolis for over ten years. His family includes his wife, Elsie; sons, Matthew Jones of Tiffin, and Randy Jones of Solon; three grandsons, Jeremy, L
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