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Article: Jones Challenges USADA to Support Claims
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- June 17, 2004
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STEVE WILSTEIN, AP Sports Columnist
AP Online
06-17-2004
Olympic champion Marion Jones gestures during a news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday June 16, 2004. Jones called for a public hearing in her campaign to forestall a possible drug case that could keep her from the Athens Games.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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 ...