Marion Lois Jones born October 12, , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson , is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to lying to federal investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Hunter , and m sprinter Tim Montgomery. She later played two season of professional basketball in the Women's National Basketball Association , as point guard for the Tulsa Shock. She holds dual citizenship with the United States and Belize. Toler became a stay-at-home dad to Jones and her older half-brother, Albert Kelly, until his sudden death in Hunter voluntarily resigned from his position at UNC to comply with the requirements of university rules prohibiting coach-athlete dating.
In the run-up to the Olympics, Jones declared that she intended to win gold medals in all five of her competition events at Sydney. Jones's husband, C.
Hunter, had withdrawn from the shotput competition for a knee injury, though he was allowed to keep his coaching credentials and attend the games to support his wife. Just hours after Marion Jones won her first of the planned five golds, though, the International Olympic Committee IOC announced that Hunter had failed four pre-Olympic drug tests, testing positive each time for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone.
Hunter was immediately suspended from taking any role at the Sydney games, and he was ordered to surrender his on-field coaching credentials. At a press conference where Hunter broke down in tears, he denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs, much less the easily detected nandrolone. The couple divorced in Montgomery fought the ban, but lost the appeal on December 13, , receiving a two-year ban from track-and-field competition; the Court of Arbitration for Sport also stripped Montgomery of all race results, records, and medals, from March 31, , onward.
