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Podcast: For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running
Episode: Failure Is Not Forever: Marion Jones' Pivot from Scandal to Finding Purpose
Description: The media often only shows one side of a story where the “fastest woman on the planet” has to return her Olympic medals.
Marion Jones competed in track and field and became a household name in the early 2000’s, working with major brands and competing in 5 events at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.
In 2007, Marion confessed that she had lied about taking performance enhancing drugs and was sentenced to six months in jail after a scandal involving over 20 professional athletes.
Marion used her resolve to make a...