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Tonight. Tarnished <명예 따위가> 더럽혀진 gold. “I have let my country down 실망시키다 and I have let myself down.” Olympic track start Marion Jones admits she used steroids in the 2000 summer games and pleads guilty 유죄를 인정하다 to lying about it to federal investigators. And he’s been driving this car for 70 years. Ah, but it comes with the best story which you’ll hear tonight in Steve Hartman’s Assignment America. This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

 

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Good evening. Katie is off. Olympic star Marion Jones could run, but she couldn’t hide. For years, one of the best known female athletes in the world would tell anyone who’d listen she never used steroids. But today she told a judge, it was all a lie.

 

She could be sentenced to ~년의 형을 선고 받다 as much as six months in prison and tonight, the President of the US Olympic Committee is asking her to return the five medals she won at the summer games in Sydney. Byron Pitts reports on the dramatic end to historic career.

 

This was a fall from grace rarely seen from an American sports start. Outside a federal court this evening, Marion Jones admitted she shamed herself, her family, her fans and her country. “Though it is with a great amount of shame, that I stand before you and tell you that I had betrayed 저버리다 your trust. I want you to know that I have been dishonest. And you have the right to be angry with me.”

 

On the track, the world was awed 경외하게 하다 by Marion Jones’s speed, warmed by her smile. She won three gold medals and two bronze at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Considered at the time, the greatest woman sprinter 단거리경주 선수 ever. She turned those medals into millions.

 

You won a race? Advertisers adored her. She was paid $50-$70,000 to run in races worldwide. When allegations 주장 first surfaced 겉으로 드러나다 about steroids, she didn’t simply deny it. She looked the world in the eye and swore to it. “That I have never, ever used performance enhancing 강화하다 drugs and that I have accomplished what I have accomplished because of my God given abilities and hard work.”

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