I recently came across a headline that just begged for comment - Marion Jones, former Olympic athlete, has admitted to "Olympic doping". It's true: in a letter to her family, she admitted as much. The headline: "Marion Jones 'admits to Olympic doping'."
The story:
Jones, who won five medals in Sydney, said she took "the clear" for two years, beginning in 1999, and that she got it from former coach Trevor Graham, who told her it was flaxseed oil, the newspaper reported.
"The clear" is a performance-enhancing drug linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), the lab at the centre of a US government doping investigation. Until now, Jones had steadfastly denied she ever took any kind of performance-enhancing drugs.
The problem here, of course, is that when I see the term "Olympic doping" in a headline, I immediately begin thinking of the apocryphal "psychedelic Olympics." You know, the one where the 500-yard DMT relay race is one of the main events... smoke a big bowl, dash as far as you can, collapse and hope the aliens transport your incredibly high ass as far as the next relay runner... hmm, maybe it's just me. (Anyone remember any of the other events?)
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