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2004: BALCO and the end of irrational sports exuberance

By Patrick Hruby
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Monday, July 28, 2008

Deep into the summer of 2004, I watched Marion Jones trudge through the tunnel below Olympic Stadium in Athens, dejected and defeated, eyes misting like morning dew. Far removed from her five-medal performance at the Sydney Games and dogged by accusations of drug use, track and field's erstwhile golden girl bombed in her sport's ancient birthplace -- never contending in the long jump and botching a handoff in a relay race, looking old and slow all the while. Still sweating in her tracksuit, ...

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