Marion Jones returns 2000 Olympic medals

Posted Oct 8, 2007

Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has returned the five medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, a source close to Jones told Reuters on Monday. Jones won three gold medals and two bronzes at the Games and after years of denial admitted in a New York court on Friday she had taken the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, in preparation for the Games. (Yahoo! Sports)

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