Former US sprinter Marion Jones left prison today after serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about steroid use.
Jones (32), who won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, had been held in a minimum-security jail in San Antonio, Texas.
For years, the track star denied using performance-enhancing drugs but in October pleaded guilty to two charges of perjury and was sentenced in January by a federal judge in New York. She reported to prison on March 7th.
Jones admitted she had lied to federal investigators in 2003 when she denied knowing that she took the banned substance tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), known as "the clear," before the 2000 Olympics.
The athlete 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.
Reuters
