World 100m final 1999

[RellDM]

She did an interview about it with Oprah. She never knowingly took the drugs, her camp gave her drugs and told her it was Flax seed supplement, but it turns out that was wrong. That occurred in 2000 before Syndney, so SHE WAS STILL DOMINANT AND A BEAST BEFORE/WITHOUT THE SET UP! I love you Marion Jones! Naysayers just look for a reason to hate without listening to both sides. Robots!

[Doromir]

Did Marion Jones ever 'actually' test positive for drugs or did she just confess to using them after someone accused her? Anyone know the 'true' story?

[dabrownfox15]

@Doromir She never tested positive but she admitted to using them to federal investigations into her training camp.

[Sdelosinfiernos]

Fake...

[gospelbwoi]

to those of you who want to say she was on drugs here you are just wrong. It was at this same venue that she injured herself(in the 200m) and it was as a result that the decision to give her drugs was made by her coach Trevor Graham. He stated he didn't ever want to see her injured like that again.

[JamzW1992]

She was on drugs from the beggining of her career and lied all the way till the end !

[gospelbwoi]

I beg to differ, guess that's your opinion-it's not a fact. I know she was certainly a talented junior athlete! so she wasn't cheating from the start of her career. You weren't there when she started taking drugs neither was i but i do know she was a very talented athlete and when taking the drugs her performances actually took a turn for the worst.

[turnbacktime]

exactly

[SuperRap6]

@JamzW1992 Not true you don't know anything

[duddywalka]

Uh, some of you guys need to read alil. She started using drugs AFTER 99 World champs, in reaction to her 200m break down. She was clean before than, which is really sad. She didn't use drugs to get faster; she used them because she was gready and wanted 5 golds.

[turnbacktime]

dude certain drugs could not be traced in 2000 like nandrolone, thats why she wasnt caught earlier. Marion Jones didnt test positive for anything either at this point.

when she decided to ran natural after the Olympic scandal she came 6th in the european indoor finals.

[rascasse83]

Christine Arron (10'73) remains the fastest cleanest athlete ever.

[CHEETAH69]

Nope. FloJo nor Carmelita have failed any drug test. And for that matter neither has Shelley Ann Fraser. Your strong suspicion isn't a good substitute for the proof or truth.

[rascasse83]

Cheetah69

Yes carmelita, did an amazing time this year. Shelley has an ex-aequo time with Arron, ok then.

But for FloJo.......u must be living in cuckoo land. Not even Marion Jones has come anywhere close to her times.......and we now know how clean Marion was........

[rascasse83]

Flo-Jo was not the Usain Bolt of her times in that her 'natural' initial physical attributes didn't make her a freak of evolution.....we couldn't now justify her times based on a out-of-this-world stride rate and stride length, her speed she got it from.......other means. She was built like a man in the end and she didn't start like that, nowhere near.

[rascasse83]

And when in doubt whether wonder-woman attributes are obtained through carrot juice and gym workout.........rather than other means........best you keep believing in your carrot juice !!!!

[CHEETAH69]

You might need to look at some "relaxed" pics of Florence in 88. It's very easy to judge a flexed photo of a sprinter hurling down the track and attribute them with other-worldly muscularity. FloJo was a little woman. Look at her arms, her waist, her whole stature was pretty petite. If you saw a man when you saw her, then I think we might need to question the men in your part of town.

[rascasse83]

Men or Women of petite stature which suddenly gain muscle mass like she did or like Silverster Stallone did (he was of petite stature to start with) didn't just gain it on cans of tuna.........

[rascasse83]

the bit where it says that she retires in 1989, after that amazing year, and after having made plans to keep running, on the ev of the introduction of random drug testing is ...........troubling to say the least.

[CHEETAH69]

My point is she never achieved the level of hyper-muscularity that you are attesting. I'd venture to say that her weight in 88 was the same it was in 87. Now there is of course a decrease in bodyfat. But to say that she was huge is false. Sly Stallone she was not.

[rascasse83]

Lol yes i have just seen videos and you sure defend your idol ;-)

You are right that one the videos she doesn't look that muscular in the arms (also she looks amazingly strong), also she has amazing thighs. I will no go into comparative anatomy and as you seem to know her better than most, i will leave it to this. May she rest in peace......

PS: doctor couldn't test for steroids, but yes the death has probably nothing to do with it if it was congenital.

[rascasse83]

but some close-up pictures on the web sure look really scary..........

never seen christine arron that strong and built-up.

Don't just watch the youtubes as you can't see anything on there ;-)

bye i am off

[CHEETAH69]

I don't know if because a dirty athlete hasn't reached a particular time, that the particular time was achieved by illegal means. Zhanna Pintusevich never ran 10.76. Evelyn Ashford did. She wasn't using drugs. It might "make sense" to say that FloJo was drugged. But it's also highly possible that she DID work her ass off and was able to thusly, reach the heights that she did. I'm not saying, of course, with 100% certainty that that's what happened. But I'm allowing for the probability.

[rascasse83]

Lol u really are a cheetah, your quick to respond ;-) Let's just say that Marion Jones wasn't always dirty to start with (she was quick) and had more talent than Pintusevich then !

It's just the way FloJo left this world (epileptic seizure at 38 years old), looks a bit dodgy, that coupled to her unatainable times which improved by 0.47 in one year over 100m ! how her body composition dramatically over that period means there is a big dark cloud over her performances.....back to my carrot juice

[CHEETAH69]

The doctor who performed the autopsy stated that her death was not at all related to drug use. She had a congenital brain abnormality that led to her death. And track history is full of instances where folks have made HUGE leaps in a years time. Look at Mike Marsh in 92. Kim Batten in 95. Shelley Ann Fraser last year.

[ROMPERSTOMPER21]

she was a druggie!!! nuff said

[sportnerd112]

had she stayed clean there's no telling how fast she could run

[Cippen88]

Probably a bit slower than her 10.65...

[logopants]

women sprinters always look faster than the men

[RealDefentertainment]

am sorry but i think she could still win without drugs

YES I SAID IT cos i Run myself

[MYLANNZ]

I run too but it takes me 3 minutes to run 100 meters, and I'm steroid free Haha strue.

[flowababba]

she was taking drugs long before 2000 olympics so stop talking trashs

[turnbacktime]

you run what? how does the fact that you run prove anything?

[Bahia82]

Forget Marion Jones, I loved Inger mIller

[datdominican004]

i wonder how fast she can run the 40 at the combine....something like 4.1 or 4?

[freerunnerguy]

usain bolts 40 time was converted to only a 4.5 because sprinters get faster as they go and they arent at their full speed at the start. football players can get to their top speed but they would get killed in a 100m

[Goldstruck]

sure

[mtee111]

it seems like evry female runner under 10.8 is on something

[Aarontlondon]

wow, this is probably the fastest race ever overall, excepth Barcelona 92

[3748359]

i still love you marion !!

[AB5309]

fantastic. love a junkie.

[NYKEITIA]

SHE WAS NOT ON CLEAR IN 1999

[sadako1338]

STEROID CHEATS OUT!

In this race:

Jones, steroid cheats

Miller, tested positive on winter 99

Thanou, no-show in 2004

Zhanna Block, listed on BALCO

...

What a shame!

[jrussell04]

if she was cheating since 99, than this race is NULLED & VOID! Inger Miller should be rewarded the 1999 100m World Champion and giving her double gold in both 100m & 200m!

[AB5309]

dont think so

[kingnevets]

she won that clearly because of the CLEAR

[hacimed]

STEROIDS

[davidequaini]

We already knew...Comte had said everythink...not only has she taken the Clear but even Gh and other hormones!!And she new dam well what she was taking! Incredibly she has never been tested positive!! A lot to be done yet in anti doping

[Hunkola]

I hope she gets the electric chair....no one is gonna miss the stupid 'roid cunt who lies more than a Persian rug!!! Barry Bonds...you are the next 'roid punk to get sent to the slammer!!!

[JUNGLEJUSTICE9mm]

this si a very sad day indeed!!!

[Yosemite25]

We live in a society that we want to see the best at any cost. I say let them dope up and lets watch them. Just like pro bodybuilding. People are looking for the "freaks of nature" even if they are drugged. People are always trying to go further, faster, than the next guy, jet, country. If you are over 21, I think we should have a drug olympics.

[NEMASIS]

you sir are a legend in your own time. I completly agree with that. I wanna see some serious record braking shit

[kingnevets]

dude you are crazy but i guess we all think about it sometimes

[mambobici]

She said it was given to her by her former coach and that she had taken it thinking it was flaxseed oil, a nutritional supplement.

And she had the courage to come foward.

[JUNGLEJUSTICE9mm]

marion marion i am so sorry 4 u

[Dancenmachine81]

Track star Marion Jones admits doping before 2000 Sydney Games

By The Associated Press

October 4, 2007

Marion Jones admitted using steroids before the 2000 Olympics in a recent letter to close family and friends, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Jones, a triple gold medalist in Sydney, said she took "the clear" for two years, beginning in 1999, and that she got it from former coach Trevor Graham, the newspaper reported. Graham told her it was flaxseed oil.

[Tuxy69]

Isn't that amazing that in the 20 years since Flo Jo ran 10.49 Marion Jones fastest is about 5 metres slower 10.7, surely technique, diet etc would allow woman to run faster nowadays.....drug cheat, er, ah, I think so!!

[berry87]

everyone knows that 10.49 was stronly wind aided it should have never been ratified! The record should be 10.61 which i believe is reachable :)

[Tuxy69]

She ran a 10.54 at the 1988 Olympics final that was legitimate. The 10.49 at the Olympic trial was within wind tolerance as well. If you look at her previous best times before her months of record breaking she was running 10.8's, to improve that much would be superhuman. The men are improving every year on average by 0.02sec, very very slight increases.

[berry87]

I remember that her 10.54 she ran the olympic final was over the legal wind limit. That is why the olympic record is 10.62! :)

[Tuxy69]

Whoops, your right berry87, was getting ahead of myself there:) However the 10.49 though disputed is officially recorded as the world record. At the end of the day she was the 1988 Olympics star and as a young man at the time I thought she was pretty hot!

[berry87]

Yes Florence was even more beautiful in person!:)

[CHEETAH69]

I don't know about the wind. I think considering the fact that the other runners in that race didn't really destroy their previous best makes a case for the wind and the wind gauge to be perfectly in order. I mean unless the wind was ONLY blowing in the lane florence was in.

[berry87]

This is the result!

QF1 (w+0.0)

1. FLorence Griffith-Joyner 10.49 WR

2. Diane Williams 10.86 PR

3. Gail Devers 10.97 PR

4. Carlette Guidry 11.11 PR

5. Dawn Sowell 11.19 PR

6. Andrea Thompson 11.35 PR

7. Anita Howard 11.76

Everyone set a PR in that race and It was windy that day. To say there was 0.0 wind was just crazy.:)

[CHEETAH69]

Yeah I know they set prs. But they didn't completely blow their prs out the water. I mean gail had run a windy 10.86 prior to this meet. And she had run in the low 11.00s up until then.

[CHEETAH69]

Marion's fastest actually is a 10.65. And I don't think any of us will live to see ANY woman come close to touching 10.49 even on a downhill slope with 300mph wind.

[Warmachine300]

How was Ottey queen? She's not even in this race. I feel sorry for Devers.

[KayBlaze03]

Yea me too. I love Gail, and she should have definitely been on the medal stand at these W.C.

[18surreymatt]

Yes and i suppose an ostrich that won a 100m race with half a leg would be on drugs too, not. dont bother writing back i wont ever be on here again. including if you slag me off, and think i will look for a message. not!!!!.

[patterbot]

Wow, Devers was the first clean athlete to cross the line! Jones, Miller and Thanou were dopped off their faces at these champs!

[Telltaleheart79]

Did Inger Miller get caught doping?

[maroong]

wow, that backside view of her upper body at the end of the race is something else.

[mattie22]

she was a druggie ottey was the queen

[trackster]

^^agreed

[shadysprinter]

^agreed

[silentk11]

now that was a fast race....marion jones is back and i believe she is on her way to running these times again.