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Article: Marion Jones to USADA: Put Up or Shut Up
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- June 17, 2004
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STEVE WILSTEIN, AP Sports Columnist
AP Online
06-17-2004
Marion Jones seemed so poised, so direct, so determined.
How could she not be telling the truth?
There she was, all business in a white blouse and long, dark gray skirt, speaking from the heart without once turning for help from her three lawyers 15 feet away.
"I wanted the world to have an opportunity to hear from me," she said. "Not from my lawyers, not from unnamed sources, and not from unsubstantiated leads. But from me."
She had the same intense look in her eyes she always had when she approached the starting line. Instead of taking on runners who were no match for her, here she was calling out the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying, ...