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Marion Jones Wants To Play For the WNBA

Former Olympic gold medalist and uber-athlete, Marion Jones, is doing her best to get back to professional sports. Jones has been training with the San Antonio Silver Star WNBA team.
Marion Jones Wants To Play For the WNBA
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By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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Former Olympic gold medalist and uber-athlete, Marion Jones, is doing her best to get back to professional sports. Jones has been training with the San Antonio Silver Star WNBA team.

Jones served a six-month federal prison sentence for lying to federal agents investigating a doping scandal surrounding the 2000 Olympics. The mother of three has been out for 15 months and is readying for her big comeback. Before breaking records as a runner, Jones led the University of North Carolina to a NCAA championship in 1996. “It would give me an opportunity to get a second chance,” she told the New York Times recently.

If you still got it three kids later, Marion, we say do your thing.