Marion Jones admits steroid use...

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Marion Jones has reportedly admitted in a letter to family and friends that she used steriods prior to winning five medals at the 2000 Olympics. The Washington Post reports Jones will plead guilty to lying to federal agents.

[ACCBiggz]

She admits the use, but unknowingly... says she was told it was flaxseed oil, familiar or no? So in fact it's already the same thing Bonds has already said to a jury.

[gunnar hendershow]

I never knowingly took steroids. Blah blah blah. I'm just offended that these star athletes think we're dumb enough to believe them. Worse yet is that some people DO believe them though.

[ACCBiggz]

What's hard to believe. I've had this discussion before. It's really a 50/50 chance, just public perception of Bonds being a prick and so forth make people believe the one that makes him look worse. In the case of Bonds none of us really know, but he said Anderson, who was his best friend, told him it was flaxseed oil and it'd help. If your best friend who is also your trainer, someone you trust 100%, comes in and says that, you aren't going to question it being something entirely different.

So I don't see how or why you should be offended. Some of them are lying, some are telling the truth, bottom line is none of us know which is which.

[buck...]

My whole thought is that an athletes body is his meal ticket, he knows whats in it on it, why I don't buy peoples idea that they didn't know.

[Lowerdeck]

It's a lie. They know what they do. They're just hoping we're idiots.

[ACCBiggz]

My whole thought is that an athletes body is his meal ticket, he knows whats in it on it, why I don't buy peoples idea that they didn't know.

[buck...]

but she pleaded guilty to not telling the truth to the feds didn't she, she more the less admitted she knew. Over the counter stuff, I can see, but the stuff at balco wasn't over the counter.

[ACCBiggz]

And I posted she admitted use, but she unknowingly took it at the time, and Balco wasn't just steroids although thanks to the boom of the media's fascination with steroids it almost gets linked with them 100%. I wouldn't have put it past Victor Conte and some of that crooked bunch to do some weird stuff. But there were some legit business going on there as well.

[buck...]

I understand that along with the steroids there was a legit business, and I don't doubt that, I just don't know how as an athlete you don't know what you put in your body. To me thats either stupid, or a lie. and I lean toward lie.

[ACCBiggz]

Like I said, you really don't know. If you hire a trainer and he says put this on, you'll ask what it is, when he says flaxseed oil, you'll say ok. If you don't trust your trainer, then I'm not sure why he'd still be employed by you. So to say they know everything that goes on is just false.

But like I said before, while I don't like that analogy saying they know what goes in all the time, I feel that they responsible. Regardless of if they knew or not, they are still responsible for what goes in. That's all I am saying, we don't really know if they did or did not know. It all depends on the people around them at the time.

What doesn't help Marion Jones is at the time her husband was busted for roids, and Conte said he personally did schedules for a number of Olympic athletes. Although that could mean schedules handed to their trainers and not the athletes personally, I couldn't confirm that as I wasn't there. I wouldn't put it past anyone to try and dupe an athlete into taking something to see what effects it has.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

And I posted she admitted use, but she unknowingly took it at the time, and Balco wasn't just steroids although thanks to the boom of the media's fascination with steroids it almost gets linked with them 100%. I wouldn't have put it past Victor Conte and some of that crooked bunch to do some weird stuff. But there were some legit business going on there as well.