Former track star Tim Montgomery opens up about his use of steroids and his life with Marion Jones. — Transcript

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1. 0:01former world record holder Tim
2. 0:03Montgomery tells the times of London
3. 0:04that he started taking performance
4. 0:06enhancing drugs because he wanted to
5. 0:07beat fellow American Sprinter Maurice
6. 0:09Green Montgomery who was currently
7. 0:11serving time in a federal prison in
8. 0:12Alabama for bank fraud and drug dealing
9. 0:15was linked to the back of Investigation
10. 0:16but never tested positive for drugs he
11. 0:19has admitted that he doped before the
12. 0:212000 Sydney Olympics Montgomery says
13. 0:24that he and disgraced Olympian Marion
14. 0:25Jones became an item in 2002 after
15. 0:28assuring a flight to Rome he told the
16. 0:30times that they would store their
17. 0:31steroids in the refrigerator next to the
18. 0:33vegetables last year Jones served six
19. 0:36months in prison for perjury in the
20. 0:38Balco case making these false statements
21. 0:40to federal agents was an incredibly
22. 0:42stupid thing for me to do
23. 0:45and I am responsible fully for my
24. 0:47actions
25. 0:49I have no one to blame but myself for
26. 0:52what I have done a short time after they
27. 0:53got together Montgomery set the world
28. 0:55record in the 100 meters running 9.78
29. 0:58seconds a record that has since been
30. 1:00wiped from the books Jones who
31. 1:02Montgomery says could cry for the
32. 1:03cameras never tested positive for doping
33. 1:06but was stripped of her five medals from
34. 1:07the Sydney games after admitting that
35. 1:09she was doping at the time
36. 1:11Jack Briggs the Associated Press