HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. sprinter Marion Jones reported to a
federal prison in Texas on Friday to begin serving a six-month sentence
for lying to prosecutors about steroid use that helped her win five
medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Jones, who had until Tuesday to turn herself in, surrendered to
authorities at Carswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas,
said U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley. Jones, 32, has been stripped of the Olympic medals, three of which
were gold, and all of her performances as of September 2000 have been
erased from the record books.For years, she denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but in October pleaded guilty to two charges of perjury.She admitted she had lied to investigators in 2003 when she denied
knowing that she took the banned substance tetrahydrogestrinone (THG),
known as "the clear," before the 2000 Olympics. In a January hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas
sentenced Jones to two six-month sentences behind bars, to run
concurrently. The Carswell prison is a facility where prisoners with medical
problems are incarcerated, but not all inmates there are ailing, said
Billingsley. She could not disclose if Jones was sent there for medical reasons. SOURCE OF THIS STORY