Column: Jones is the Bonds of track

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That is the title of the article published in the San Francisco Chronicle with a link below. I have no comment regarding the article.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... 351D74.DTL

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Re: Column: Jones is the Bonds of track

I have no comment regarding the article.

excerpt:

That image was provided courtesy of BALCO operator Victor Conte Jr., who drew both Jones' wrath and a defamation lawsuit when he also said during a December 2004 national television interview that he provided Jones with the "clear" and other substances to help her run faster.

and some people still don't get that The DaVinci Code is just fiction also!

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[Daisy]

[you said you had no comment--which is good--so we're holding you to it; luv, the mods]

Mods with a sense of humour :-) You have to love it.

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"Yes, she filed a $25 million defamation suit against Conte to clear her name. But it was settled earlier this year with no retraction, no apology, and, presumably no money after attorneys for Conte said they were going to take depositions from people they claimed would prove she used performance enhancing drugs."

I have no comment.

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"Yes, she filed a $25 million defamation suit against Conte to clear her name. But it was settled earlier this year with no retraction, no apology, and, presumably no money after attorneys for Conte said they were going to take depositions from people they claimed would prove she used performance enhancing drugs."

I have no comment.

And apparently no PM to Tafnut?

[EPelle]

Not if the moderators can read them.

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Not if the moderators can read them.

Ahhh Hah! I always thought if they did read them id be banned or dead by now?

[EPelle]

You are in track pergutory (or whatever it is called).

[bekeselassie]

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TAFNY!! Classic!

[Pego]

"Yes, she filed a $25 million defamation suit against Conte to clear her name. But it was settled earlier this year with no retraction, no apology, and, presumably no money after attorneys for Conte said they were going to take depositions from people they claimed would prove she used performance enhancing drugs."

I have no comment.

No public disclosure was made, yet you know all this. Did you just oficially out yourself? The alternative is that you made it up.
So, are you Victor Conte himself or a malicious troll? Somehow, I don't see a third alternative.

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"Yes, she filed a $25 million defamation suit against Conte to clear her name. But it was settled earlier this year with no retraction, no apology, and, presumably no money after attorneys for Conte said they were going to take depositions from people they claimed would prove she used performance enhancing drugs."

I have no comment.

No public disclosure was made, yet you know all this. Did you just oficially out yourself? The alternative is that you made it up.
So, are you Victor Conte himself or a malicious troll? Somehow, I don't see a third alternative.

The third= Conte the malicious troll?

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"Conte said they were going to take depositions from people they claimed would prove she used performance enhancing drugs."

Please, be my guest, present these depositions now. The whole world believes (knows) Conte is a bald-faced liar, so bringing down MJ will serve two useful purposes: convict her and clear y. . . Conte. What's the hold-up?

Mr. Conte, on national TV, said he really REALLY wanted to be a force for good and CLEAN up his beloved sport of track & field. This would be an excellent start! We're waiting . . .

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What ticks me off is quotes like this, from the AP story:

>>If track and field is to survive anywhere but Europe and thrive anywhere besides the Olympics, it needs new stars like Gatlin, who carry the promise of a future when fans don't need to guess who is putting what into their bodies.

What it doesn't need is a link like Jones — though she has adamantly maintained her innocence — to a steroid-fueled era.<<

This is nonsense. Track and field will survive. It has survived for more than 100 years and it will survive in the future outside of Europe and outside of the Olympics. Yes, stars like Gatlin are good and drug stories are bad. But this business of describing our sport as being in danger of extinction is just bullshit.

Unfortunately, this guy is not the only one who makes such casual references to the sport as one in danger of not surviving. But these guys don't talk about the survival of baseball, football, and other profesional sports where the use of PED is much more prevalent. And they continue to cover the competition in these other sports as they always did. When the write about drugs in baseball, they don't stop writing about baseball games.

The fact is that the people who impair the health of the sport these days are the writers like Mr. Dahlberg, not athletes like Marion Jones.

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These guys don't talk about the survival of baseball, football, and other profesional sports where the use of PED is much more prevalent. And they continue to cover the competition in these other sports as they always did. When the write about drugs in baseball, they don't stop writing about baseball games.

Of course the reason it is worse is that they have been turning a blind eye and even condoning it. Remember the "McGuire is only using Andro, its not even on a banned substance list" excuses for baseball? Pathetic.

The fact is that the people who impair the health of the sport these days are the writers like Mr. Dahlberg, not athletes like Marion Jones.

Definitely, and also pathetic. Whatever happened to journalism, there is so much tabloid crap these days. Please excuse the rant.