tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post1167035609806900929..comments2023-09-27T07:40:50.535-07:00Comments on Mes Deux Cents: For a Marion Jones fan like me, this is more sad newsMes Deux Centshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697034868111011343noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-84838476142751681942008-02-02T17:21:00.000-08:002008-02-02T17:21:00.000-08:00I wonder how she is doing now? Has anyone reached ...I wonder how she is doing now? Has anyone reached out to her?BlackProfessionalEventshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971843652384704913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-48440537803474996272007-10-06T12:39:00.000-07:002007-10-06T12:39:00.000-07:00Hi Ehav,I couldn't have said it better. Thanks.Hi Ehav,<BR/><BR/>I couldn't have said it better.<BR/> <BR/>Thanks.Mes Deux Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697034868111011343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-88431461681047068112007-10-06T09:12:00.000-07:002007-10-06T09:12:00.000-07:00Tragedy is defined as any event with a sad and unf...Tragedy is defined as any event with a sad and unfortunate outcome. The term also applies specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle characterized by seriousness and dignity and involving a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune. Calling Marion Jones life/decisions tragic is no different than Oedipus Rex being called a Greek Tragedy.Ehav Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201312079270363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-50941613969587605752007-10-05T16:44:00.000-07:002007-10-05T16:44:00.000-07:00Hi Brent,I understand your point, but I made no at...Hi Brent,<BR/><BR/>I understand your point, but I made no attempt to compare Marion Jones' situation to any other. And you are right about her situation not camparing to the ones that you mentioned.<BR/><BR/>However some tragedies are ones that no one has control over, like the ones you mentioned and others are tragic exactly because someone did have control. Marion took her chance at greatness and squandered it, she's financially ruined, she has been through two broken relationships and may go to jail. That sounds like a tragic story to me. <BR/><BR/>So I think that tragedy is reletive to each situation, and the ones you mentioned are in a totally different catagory than Marion Jones' story.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commentingMes Deux Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697034868111011343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-66692791915505280542007-10-05T14:42:00.000-07:002007-10-05T14:42:00.000-07:00No offense intended...but I would hardly call some...No offense intended...but I would hardly call someone using drugs one of the all-time tragic stories in sports history. This is someone who knowingly made the choice to use performance enhancing drugs...sorry...I don't believe her "I thought it was flax seed oil" story...everyone else in her life seems to have been using, it is a bit too much for me to buy.<BR/><BR/>Too many people have died from truly tragic circumstances or had horrible things happen to their family for me to think that it is anything other than hyperbole to compare performance enhancing drug use to something like the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 which killed thirty-five members of the Marshall University football team.\<BR/><BR/>Jones was a good story...but it turns out the story was fiction. Sad? Yes. Tragic? No.Brent B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09903083894124441100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-77409365395817980682007-10-05T09:57:00.000-07:002007-10-05T09:57:00.000-07:00Hi Anon,Sometimes we are blind when it comes to pe...Hi Anon,<BR/><BR/>Sometimes we are blind when it comes to people we like and admire. I'm not a fan of Armstrong, Landis or their sport so I it's easier for me to believe they might have done something wrong.<BR/><BR/>And yes like everyone else who is a fan of track & field and Marion Jones, I saw the signs. I just chose to believe the best rather than the worst.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commentingMes Deux Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697034868111011343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842906968815125638.post-34435885624150311622007-10-05T09:15:00.000-07:002007-10-05T09:15:00.000-07:00It's a sad commentary on society that people actua...It's a sad commentary on society that people actually believed she was clean. Even if you didn't catch on at first, almost every person in her life is/has been convicted of a performance enhancing drug offense. Do you think Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis are clean too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com