"I Would Have Won Without Drugs": Marion Jones | Stunted Growth Story — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Applause]
2. 0:00what are we talking about
3. 0:02what are we talking about
4. 0:04what are we talking about all sports
5. 0:10marion jones born october 12 1975
6. 0:15racing an event that can be traced back
7. 0:18to probably the first humans on earth
8. 0:20with competition being embedded into our
9. 0:23dna as a natural state of being
10. 0:26sigmund freud once said about
11. 0:28competition that humans are born
12. 0:30screaming for attention and full of
13. 0:33organic drives for fulfillment in
14. 0:35various areas
15. 0:37this quote couldn't be more relatable to
16. 0:39this story and you'll see why later
17. 0:42it wasn't until 1921
18. 0:44after the women's sports movement
19. 0:46organized women's events that females
20. 0:49were even taken seriously enough to
21. 0:51compete on the same field as men in a
22. 0:54sport that before that was male only
23. 0:57in 1928 women were officially allowed to
24. 1:00compete in the olympics in track and
25. 1:02field held in amsterdam netherlands
26. 1:06since then there's been many champions
27. 1:08medalists and records broken
28. 1:11there's also been countless bans from
29. 1:13the sport for doping as well which is
30. 1:16taking performance enhancing drugs that
31. 1:18gave you more energy and boost to your
32. 1:21skills for an amount of time
33. 1:23basically eliminating the work needed to
34. 1:26be successful in your sport
35. 1:28you can already see where this would be
36. 1:30a problem not only in sports but track
37. 1:33in particular where fair chance is the
38. 1:36only way to determine who's number one
39. 1:38and is age sensitive
40. 1:41they adjust the lanes beginning
41. 1:43placements and use the speed of sound as
42. 1:46a green light to ensure everyone
43. 1:48involved be given a fair opportunity to
44. 1:50compete
45. 1:52when those lines are crossed or should i
46. 1:54say enhanced those races might as well
47. 1:57have never happened
48. 1:59like knowing the answers to a test or
49. 2:01winning lottery numbers or even knowing
50. 2:04the future
51. 2:05that amount of power is a killer to the
52. 2:08other athletes besides you that didn't
53. 2:10use the enhancements you did
54. 2:12in track and field because of the short
55. 2:15window of opportunity these athletes get
56. 2:17to compete especially on a stage like
57. 2:20the olympics every fair chance counts
58. 2:23after a certain age usually faster than
59. 2:26most top sports you don't get that body
60. 2:29you had four years ago back
61. 2:31so to beat someone with enhancing drugs
62. 2:33in your vein can change that person's
63. 2:36life forever that finished second and
64. 2:38should have been first
65. 2:40or fourth that should have meddled had
66. 2:42it not been for you
67. 2:44that's endorsements loss disappointment
68. 2:47for you and your country and a short
69. 2:49chance to make your passion a living
70. 2:52based on your performances
71. 2:54after denying doping she was erased from
72. 2:56the record books and stripped of all her
73. 2:59medals from 2000 to 2001 including the
74. 3:02record five she achieved in sydney
75. 3:05her eight relay teammates in that span
76. 3:07were also stripped of their medals
77. 3:09because of her infractions
78. 3:11she was on pace to becoming one of the
79. 3:14most dominant athletes of her time
80. 3:16regardless of gender before being caught
81. 3:19and denounced any athlete taking
82. 3:21enhancement drugs beforehand all to be
83. 3:24found guilty herself they commended
84. 3:27her courageous act by admitting that she
85. 3:30tested positive and i don't understand
86. 3:32how you how you can commend that here's
87. 3:34how marion jones went from atop the
88. 3:37sports world to disgraced athlete in the
89. 3:39shot of a gun let's talk about it she
90. 3:42boy jc stunned it growth let's get it
91. 3:50marion jones was a 510 female athlete
92. 3:53from los angeles california that
93. 3:55competed in track and field as a
94. 3:57sprinter and long jumper
95. 3:59with the loss of her stepfather she
96. 4:01turned to sports as an outlet
97. 4:04by 15 she was already one of the best
98. 4:06athletes in the nation at both track and
99. 4:09field and basketball
100. 4:11a six-time all-american in track and
101. 4:13also a national championship winning
102. 4:16college basketball player at the
103. 4:18university of north carolina in 1994.
104. 4:22during this time she won three acc
105. 4:24titles and was a two-time all-acc
106. 4:27selection and the most valuable player
107. 4:29of the 1997 acc tournament
108. 4:33she finished her legendary college
109. 4:35basketball career third in steals and
110. 4:38scoring average and fourth all time in
111. 4:40assists
112. 4:41she could have been a high wnba draft
113. 4:44pick in the wnba's first season in 1997
114. 4:47but decided to focus on track and field
115. 4:50and the 2000 sydney olympics
116. 4:53stunt number one on the right track
117. 4:55you're never gonna convince everybody
118. 4:57that you're telling the truth
119. 5:00youth
120. 5:01a very delicate time in life
121. 5:04one of those delicate features of being
122. 5:06young is your mind can still be easily
123. 5:09molded in those development stages and
124. 5:12you can just as easily be influenced
125. 5:14into doing the wrong things
126. 5:17marion jones in my opinion was on the
127. 5:19right track athletically all the way up
128. 5:22to her college days then influences got
129. 5:25to her and led her in the wrong
130. 5:26direction
131. 5:28whether that's definite or not marion
132. 5:30herself stated that the results of what
133. 5:33i'm about to speak on hurt her
134. 5:35personally and her image as a drug-free
135. 5:38athlete
136. 5:39at some point during her time at unc she
137. 5:42began dating one of her track coaches
138. 5:44world champion shot putter cj hunter
139. 5:47the relationship got serious enough to
140. 5:50where he was forced to resign as a coach
141. 5:52should he continue dating marion to
142. 5:54comply with the university staff rules
143. 5:57against relationships with student
144. 5:59athletes
145. 6:00the two continued dating and the year
146. 6:03after she graduated unc in 1997 they got
147. 6:07married and trained together for the
148. 6:082000 sydney olympics
149. 6:11and this is the exact point i think all
150. 6:14things went off track for jones
151. 6:16up to her graduating college marion
152. 6:19dominated any sport she was involved in
153. 6:22track included
154. 6:23in high school she won the cif state
155. 6:26meet 100 meter event four years in a row
156. 6:29along with being the gatorade player of
157. 6:31the year protract three straight years
158. 6:34in basketball she was equally as good
159. 6:37even earning a scholarship to north
160. 6:39carolina as a basketball player
161. 6:42she never needed performance enhancing
162. 6:44drugs unless we're to think she's been
163. 6:47taking them since 12 years old because
164. 6:49she's been dominating female sports
165. 6:52since then
166. 6:53but as mentioned a young mind is a very
167. 6:56delicate and vulnerable thing
168. 6:59cj hunter met marion when she was 16
169. 7:02and after he got the track coaching job
170. 7:04in 1995 the two started a serious
171. 7:07relationship
172. 7:09during the olympics and right after
173. 7:11marion won her first of five medals she
174. 7:13took a pause to attend a press
175. 7:15conference to defend her husband found
176. 7:18guilty four consecutive times for
177. 7:20steroid use to which he couldn't explain
178. 7:24this was the first time the drug
179. 7:25enhancement light was on her publicly
180. 7:28and it hurt her image even if she was
181. 7:30clean
182. 7:31it also initiated investigations into
183. 7:34jones who now had to begin answering
184. 7:37questions pertaining to her and doping
185. 7:40she strongly denied doping and condemned
186. 7:43any athlete for doing it as well
187. 7:46of course we'd later find out she had
188. 7:48been doping the entire time along with
189. 7:50her husband who later turned on her and
190. 7:53confessed
191. 7:55the image hit was too much for their
192. 7:57relationship so she filed for divorce in
193. 7:592002
194. 8:01after her divorce she had a child in
195. 8:042003 with another disgraced athlete tim
196. 8:07montgomery found guilty of steroid use
197. 8:10and banned in 2005 for two years
198. 8:13in 2004 cj hunter admitted to seeing
199. 8:17marion take ped injections during the
200. 8:19olympics which all but sealed her fate
201. 8:22along with other witnesses including
202. 8:25balco labs founder
203. 8:27she was sentenced to six months in
204. 8:29federal prison for lying to the feds
205. 8:31when i saw stun number two
206. 8:33doping and denying what do i wish i
207. 8:35would have done at that moment i wish i
208. 8:37would have
209. 8:39we've talked about how unfair using any
210. 8:41performance advantage is to fellow
211. 8:43athletes but even worse is what marion
212. 8:46jones did during those times
213. 8:48not only did she condemn any athlete
214. 8:51that would cheat their peers while she
215. 8:53was in fact cheating her peers when
216. 8:55confronted with evidence that she did
217. 8:57she adamantly lied about it to federal
218. 9:00agents and in press conferences
219. 9:02in 2003 a bay area lab was accused by
220. 9:06sprint coach terence graham of supplying
221. 9:09undetected enhancement supplements to
222. 9:11athletes including marion jones
223. 9:14her along with founder victor conte were
224. 9:17given the harshest punishment resulting
225. 9:19from the investigation with marion
226. 9:22overall serving the most significant
227. 9:24time
228. 9:25six months in a federal prison compared
229. 9:27to barry bonds's overturned on appeal
230. 9:30case tammy thomas's six months house
231. 9:33arrest and trevor graham's one-year
232. 9:35house arrest
233. 9:36had she not been so defiant and
234. 9:38condemning in the media about her stance
235. 9:41as a clean athlete she may have gotten a
236. 9:43lighter sentence
237. 9:45had she confessed and say she was just
238. 9:47taken what was advised she may not have
239. 9:50received the punishment she did at all
240. 9:52but i guess that would be lying anyway
241. 9:54right because later she'd admit that she
242. 9:57knew what she was taking and all the
243. 9:59accounts and witness statements were in
244. 10:01fact true
245. 10:02she was banned for two years from track
246. 10:05and field and announced her retirement
247. 10:07from competition effective immediately
248. 10:10and just like that the next great
249. 10:12american athlete high on success was
250. 10:15brought down stunt number three
251. 10:17narcissistic personality disorder that i
252. 10:20have betrayed your trust i'm extremely
253. 10:23disappointed today
254. 10:25we can make tons of excuses as to why
255. 10:27marion jones would risk everything she'd
256. 10:30built in sports especially when she
257. 10:32would have been a great athlete anyway
258. 10:34to use performance enhancements
259. 10:37one excuse i don't think can be easily
260. 10:39overlooked is i really believe marion
261. 10:42jones was a narcissist
262. 10:44narcissism usually gets a negative
263. 10:46connotation but it's a fact of some of
264. 10:49our being a fact of life
265. 10:51back to sigmund freud it's evident
266. 10:54marion was screaming for and loved every
267. 10:56second of the attention that came with
268. 10:58being the best at whatever she did
269. 11:01inflated sense of self-importance you
270. 11:04have to have that to stand in all those
271. 11:07press conferences and not even blink
272. 11:09defending your innocence at the same
273. 11:11time giving the electric chair to any
274. 11:14athlete that did she
275. 11:16troubled relationships
276. 11:18two of which were also found guilty of
277. 11:21taking enhancements and didn't last very
278. 11:23long in marion's life
279. 11:25and lastly a lack of empathy for others
280. 11:29one has to have that to deceive someone
281. 11:31else in any way
282. 11:33whether it's lying stealing fraud
283. 11:36manipulation or any of the sort
284. 11:39it takes a person with either no heart
285. 11:41at all or a narcissist to continuously
286. 11:44do those things and glow when receiving
287. 11:47praise for it
288. 11:48again it's not necessarily a bad thing
289. 11:51and all narcissists aren't bad people
290. 11:54it's just a personality trait
291. 11:57one i think marion jones definitely
292. 11:59exhibited and one i think stunned her
293. 12:02growth because again she didn't need to
294. 12:04do it she was made to be a dominant
295. 12:06athlete she already was before i think
296. 12:09she began using
297. 12:11but with her narcissistic personality it
298. 12:14was near inevitable she would be
299. 12:15attracted to the idea of enhancing your
300. 12:18performance to ensure she always shined
301. 12:21in the spotlight
302. 12:23all in all marion jones was still a
303. 12:25great athlete to me
304. 12:27i remember as a teen watching this play
305. 12:29out and i couldn't believe it was true
306. 12:32because she's always come off as a
307. 12:33pretty genuine person
308. 12:35like she cared just enough to lend her
309. 12:38attention even when everyone wanted hers
310. 12:41she always smiled deep enough to show
311. 12:43her imperfections and i always thought
312. 12:46that was special about her it made her
313. 12:48different but relatable
314. 12:50and she always had that competitive fire
315. 12:53i've only witnessed truly in three
316. 12:55athletes of my time jordan kobe and
317. 12:58marion jones
318. 13:00the killer she had that mamba mentality
319. 13:03and focus she owned that but at some
320. 13:06point she got nervous
321. 13:08nervous about a life where she lost and
322. 13:11wasn't the best
323. 13:12that and bad influence ruined her track
324. 13:15career
325. 13:16she played two seasons in the wnba after
326. 13:19prison
327. 13:20she's now a personal trainer author
328. 13:23mother and speaker where she uses every
329. 13:26opportunity she gets to warn young
330. 13:29athletes about the dangers on the road
331. 13:31she went down but also that it's
332. 13:33important to bounce back and not let
333. 13:36that be your life story
334. 13:38salute to marion jones much respect but
335. 13:40for these reasons her growth was
336. 13:43stunning she boy jc stunned it growth in
337. 13:45amount ultimately i hold myself
338. 13:47responsible at that point i decided i
339. 13:50had made the ultimate decision to lie
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