Olympic Star Marion Jones Pleads Guilty to Doping Charges（3/3）

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Olympic Star Marion Jones Pleads Guilty to Doping Charges（3/3）

Jones' admission came to light in a letter to her family and friends published by the Washington Post newspaper. In the letter, Jones admitted taking the banned-steroid THG, known by its street name "the clear," because it could not be detected by dope tests.

The three-time Olympic gold medalist said her former coach Trevor Graham gave her the drug beginning in 1999. Jones said that Graham told her it was flaxseed oil. Jones left Graham's training camp in 2002 and said she noticed a marked decrease in her performance when she stopped taking the drug.

The previously-undetectable drug was manufactured by the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative or BALCO. Several top Major League Baseball players, including Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield later admitted taking the substance, according to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. Baseball's home run king Barry Bonds has admitted using a substance his trainer Greg Anderson told him was flaxseed oil.

Anderson and four others were convicted of drug charges in the BALCO case. Graham has been indicted on three counts of lying to federal agents about the drug and has pleaded not guilty. He faces trial next month.

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The plea was in sharp contrast to Jones' former statements, including before the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where she vehemently denied every using performance-enhancing drugs. "I have never, ever used performance-enhancing drugs. And I have accomplished what I have accomplished because of my God-given abilities and hard work."

The admission reverberated throughout the sports world and even reached the White House, where spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush, who had called for a Federal crackdown on steroid use in a State of the Union speech, was saddened by the news.

"What the President is really concerned about is that any professional athlete, or anyone who aspires to be a professional athlete thinks that they have to use performance enhancing drugs in order to achieve their goals. He was sad about the news and hopes that parents can talk to their children about making sure that as they grow up that they can avoid any type of steroid use because they can really get by on their own skill and talent."

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文章标题：What a walk!
文章作者：William Hazlitt
What a walk is this to me! I have no need of book or companion——the days, the hours, the thoughts of my youth are at my side, and blend with the air that fans my cheek. Here I can saunter for hours, bending my eyes forward, supposing and turning to look back, thinking to strike off into some less trodden path, yet hesitating to quit the one I am in, afraid to snap the brittle threads of memory. I remark the shining trunks and slender branches of the birch trees, waving in the idle breeze; or a pheasant springs up on whirling wing; or I recall the spot where I once found a wood-pigeon at the foot of a tree, weltering in its gore, and think how many seasons have flown since “it left its little life in the air”. Dates, names, faces come back——to what purpose? Or why think of them now? or rather why not think of them oftener? We walk through life, as though a narrow path, with a thin curtain drawn around it; behind are ranged rich portraits, airy harps are strung---- yet we will not stretch forth our hand and lift aside the veil, to catch glimpses of the one, or sweep the chords of the other. As in a theater when the old-fashioned green curtain drew up, groups of figures, fantastic dresses, laughing faces, rich banquets, stately columns, gleaming vistas appeared beyond; so we have only at any time to “ peep though the blanket of the past,” to possess ourselves at once of all that has regaled our senses, that is stored up in our memory, that has struck our fancy, that has pierced our hearts: yet to all this we are indifferent, insensible, and seem intent only on the present vexation, the future disappointment.