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Article: Can She Do It? All Marion Jones Wants Is a Few Gold Medals. A Few More Than Everyone else.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 13, 2000
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Marion Jones sits on the cover of more magazines, at the center of
more advertisements, in the middle of more discussions and on the
cusp of more magnificence than any other Olympic athlete as the 2000
Games approach. And Jones knows full well: She started it.
When she declared more than two years ago that she intended to win
five gold medals at the Sydney Olympics -- which would make her the
first track and field athlete to win so many golds in one Games --
she invited the world to watch her try, make odds, analyze her
athletic gifts, dissect her competition, chronicle her athletic
adventure. And it has. Her quest has become the Games' most
compelling storyline, a made-for-television ...