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Even Marion Jones can't outrun her lies.
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Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
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October 10, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 The Seattle Times. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Steve Kelley
SEATTLE _ Marion Jones had a chance to be a very different hero on a very different stage last week. She could have sliced through the rampant hypocrisy in sports the same way she used to slice through the air.
She could have owned up to her juicing. She could have stood up to her former coach. She could have come clean.
All Jones had to do was tell the whole truth. Tell us that, yes, she knew what she was doing when her Svengali-like coach, Trevor Graham, told her to take "the clear," a well-known, performance-enhancing drug.
She could have, once and for all, done what tainted home-run king Barry Bonds and defrocked Tour de France winner ...
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