What Life Was Really Like For Marion Jones Before The Olympics

Marion Jones won a record-breaking five track and field medals at the 2000 Olympics, but her story was overshadowed by the crimes that came to light after. It turns out, her journey to get to the Olympics was pretty eventful, too.

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Sports to cope with grief | 0:00
Early promise | 1:12
A basketball player, too | 2:11
Skipped the Barcelona Olympics | 3:02
Injuries kept her from 1996 Olympics | 3:55
Dating her college track coach | 4:43
Big aspirations | 5:54
Next great women's track star | 6:46
1998 Goodwill Games | 7:38
Back spasms setback | 8:26
The catastrophic aftermath | 9:24

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