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Inside Sport - 06/12/2010

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Gabby Logan travels to Houston, Texas to meet the one-time fastest woman in the world, Marion Jones, in a rare one-on-one television interview for BBC's Inside Sport. The former golden girl of American athletics fell foul of a major investigation into the manufacture of performance enhancing drugs. She lied to a federal investigator and paid a very high price. She was stripped of all her Olympic medals, all her records were erased from the history books and she served six months in one of America's toughest prisons - a month and a half of her sentence was spent in solitary confinement. The mother of three has agreed to talk to Gabby Logan, a fellow mother, about her time in prison away from her children, and the difficulties involved in starting again. Marion reflects on the drug experiences that rocked her world, and discusses her rehabilitation and the need to do the right thing by her children, revealing how she is now trying to tell young people to learn from her mistakes. Finally, Marion discusses whether she herself deserved to go to prison, and what is an adequate punishment for drugs cheats.