Perfectly reasonable and believable analysis of what happened, Mike.
Let's not convict Marion for the sins of her spouse. After all Richard
Slaney never tested positive, did he?
malmo!TM
Another self-anointed "award-winning" pundit for the Sydney2000TM Olympics
> I lived in Los Angeles at the time, and was professionally acquainted with
> Jones' coach at Rio Mesa (Brian Fitzgerald, who had some other notable
> sprinters come out of his program). The way I remember it, Marion was
> summoned during school hours and was unaware of the severity of the
> request. She pretty much blew it off, then was surprised when TAC got all
> bent out of shape about it. Cochran entered the picture and the non-issue
> was dropped. No one at the time had any notion that she was using
> something. It was mostly a case of poor communication (nah, our NGB has
> NEVER done that before, have they? :-)
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