Marion Jones Finally Buckles, When Will Barry Fold Under Pressure?

Well, the big 'roid noose tightened greatly around the steroid using athletes necks still hiding from the truth one way or another, and with his one time training mate Marion Jones now flipping to the outside pressures it'll be a long time coming when liar and cheater Barry Bonds finally gets pushed out to the firing squad as the next major athlete to finally admit to what the world already knows.

Their trainer from Balco is going on trial shortly, which is probably why she is giving in now, as he will be talking a storm most likely and she knows it. Barry will feel the heat today as he well should, because both were using the same gel called the Clear supplied to them they both claimed they thought was flaxseed oil that allowed the drug testing to slip by.

So the truth will now appear in that he, just like Jones, will turn out to be nothing but a liar, and once that happens both will likely do some time in prison for lying repeatedly to the federal grand juries, as well as the gullible but "looking the other way" officials of their respective sports who were all dragging their feet in hopes that this day of discovery would simply never come.

That being the day when the biggest of the stars out there like 5 time gold medal winner Marion Jones would ultimately buckle by finally throwing in the towel as she has done today by first privately and now publicly disclosing that she will admit to these allegations of steroid abuse and subsequently simply cheating.

And with Jones now in the government's stable per say, she'll be talking to them like the dirty terrorist Sheik Muhammad did in order to save her own behind, and it'll be just moments away for Barry and his ride of deceit to come to a screeching halt as well.

He should then have that recent coveted home run record stripped from him immediately by baseball, or otherwise the whole 2007 baseball season will go down as a terrible asterisk filled joke played on the public by him, the San Francisco Giants and MLB altogether hoping that these allegations would simply go away which they have not nor will not

Finally, Marion Jones and soon Barry Bonds won't be the last disappointment from the golden age of steroids in professional sports that have forever corrupted the record books to the point of bringing all records and their validity that have been achieved during this period into question.

Marion Jones faces loss of gold medals over alleged doping confession

Bangkok Post : SPORTS PLUS: "Washington (dpa) - Former sprint star Marion Jones has reportedly finally ended years of doping denials and could be stripped of Olympic and world championship gold medals as a result. The International Olympic Committee and the ruling athletics body IAAF said on Friday they were awaiting further details and will investigate if Jones formally admits to doping. Jones famously won three golds and two bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She also has five world titles 1997-2001."

The Washington Post reported late Thursday that, in a letter sent to close family and friends, Jones claimed that a coach gave her a purported nutritional supplement that she later learned was a designer steroid.

The letter to Jones' loved ones came ahead of her expected guilty plea later Friday in a federal court in New York to two counts of lying to federal investigators, according to the text of the letter. The agents had interviewed her about both steroids and her personal finances.

Jones has long denied doping, but the allegations intensified after she was linked in 2004 to the San Francisco-based BALCO lab, which produced a liquid, oral steroid, known as THG or "the clear." continued

The same substance that Bonds was using and also has denied this by claiming they both didn't fully know what it was that they were taking. Granted Barry Bonds wasn't playing baseball under the same restrictive doping rules until recently as Jones that are in place for US Track & Field as well as the world Olympic body that is a science in itself, so for this reason many people including Bonds himself technically consider him to have not been breaking any rules and therefore cheating, which to me and most sports enthusiasts is simply bs.

Update 4:30 pm cdt after watching the news conference of Marion Jones admitting her steroid use and lying to federal investigators about her involvement, she has now come clean and done the right thing which will sadly end her illustrious career in the field of track she dominated and loved so dearly.

So now it's time for Barry Bonds to stand up and be a man by finally coming forth to admit what he has done is no different than her actions, and we'll see now what he's actually made of and if he'll continue the charade any longer like a weasel or finally fesses up like Jones has done, or will he make the feds drag him by his feet into court to finally admit his malfeasance.

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