On June 28, 2003, Jones gave birth to a son, Tim Montgomery Jr, with then-boyfriend Tim Montgomery, a world-class sprinter himself. Jones would later write in her autobiography, Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane, that Hunter's positive drug tests hurt their marriage and her image as a drug-free athlete. As late as 2004, Hunter was still denying the charges and attempting to gain access to the results to see if they could be analyzed further. At a press conference where Hunter broke down in tears, he denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs, much less the easily detected nandrolone (which showed up in all four tests in amounts over 1,000 times normal levels) Victor Conte of BALCO, who was regularly supplying "nutritional supplements" to athletes trained by Trevor Graham, blamed the test results on "an iron supplement" that contained nandrolone precursors and tied previous positive nandrolone tests from Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey and British sprinter Linford Christie to the same supplement. Hunter was immediately suspended from taking any role at the Sydney games, and he was ordered to surrender his on-field coaching credentials. However, just hours after Marion Jones won her first of the planned five golds, 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 Hunter, had withdrawn from the shot-put competition for a knee injury, though he was allowed to keep his coaching credentials and attend the games to support his wife. In the run-up to the 2000 Olympics, Jones declared that she intended to win gold medals in all five of her competition events at Sydney. Jones and Hunter were married on October 3, 1998, and trained for the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Hunter voluntarily resigned his position at UNC to comply with the requirements of university rules prohibiting coach-athlete dating. While there, she met and began dating one of the track coaches, shot putter C.J. Jones is also a 1997 graduate of the University of North Carolina (UNC). By the age of 15, she was routinely dominating California high school athletics both on the track and the basketball court. Jones turned to sports as an outlet for her grief: running, pickup basketball games, and anything else her brother Albert was doing athletically. Toler became a stay-at-home dad to Jones and her older half-brother, Albert Kelly, until his sudden death in 1987. Her parents split when she was very young, and Jones's mother remarried a retired postal worker, Ira Toler, three years later. She holds dual citizenship with the United States and Belize. Marion Jones was born to George Jones and his wife, Marion, (originally from Belize) in Los Angeles, California. Olympic Committee demands return of Olympic medals
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Jones has also played professional basketball in the WNBA, as point guard in the team of Tulsa Shock between 20. Hunter, and 100 m sprinter Tim Montgomery, the father of Jones's first child. The performance enhancing substance usage scandal covered more than 20 top level athletes, including Jones's ex-husband, shot putter C.J.
Jones was one of the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCO scandal. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to steroid use. Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track and field athlete and former professional basketball player.
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