Marion Jones (Olympic track-and-field athlete)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Marion Jones is an Olympic track-and-field athlete and professional basketball player. Marion joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in Sherman Oaks, her first exposure to the Olympics, and when she knew she wanted to be an Olympic champion. Marion and Dax talk about how much her mom helped guide her career, the feeling of winning her gold medals, and getting the call from federal prosecutors about performance-enhancing drugs. Marion explains her decision to come clean, what her experience was being incarcerated, and how failure doesn’t have to be forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Miss Lily Padman.
0:06.5	Hi.
0:07.5	What a timely episode this is.
0:10.0	We couldn't have planned it this way. In fact, I wanted to release this early.
0:15.5	You did.
0:16.0	And I actually tried, but it didn't work out.
0:20.0	And then it ended up really working out.
0:22.3	What timing? But timing?
0:22.9	What timing?
0:23.5	Marion Jones.
0:24.7	God it I love Marion Jones.
0:26.9	Fuck.
0:27.5	Marion Jones, former world champion track and field athlete and former professional basketball player,
0:33.0	she is a five-time Olympic medalist,
0:35.7	formerly deemed the fastest woman on the planet.
0:38.9	As you remember, if you live through all that,
0:40.6	she had all of her medals stripped from her. She now has one of the most
0:44.7	inspirational stories of perseverance and it's incredibly inspiring and she's
0:50.0	taken all this and she has driven performance which is dedicated to helping
0:54.6	people activate their potentials. She's used everything she's learning. She's still
0:58.7	working in this world and it's a real testament to attitude and perspective.
1:04.5	Oh my god it's one of the most harrowing crazy stories we've heard yeah.
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