Marion Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Marion Jones

Athletics, sprinter and basketball competitor, BALCO scandal, performance enhancing drugs

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1975

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: basketball player, sprinter

Nationality: United States, Belize

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track and field athlete and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA.
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.
Jones did retain her 3 titles as world champion from 1997–1999. At the time of her admission and subsequent guilty plea, Jones was one of the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCO scandal.
The case against BALCO covered more than 20 top level athletes, including Jones's ex-husband, shot putter C.J.
Hunter, and 100 m sprinter Tim Montgomery, the father of Jones' first child.