Fallen Hero

From the pages of the NPM: 

 

 

“Being ‘trapped in the closet’ means that a person is hiding a DARK secret or desire and doesn’t want their spouse to find out. But if the person finds out about the problem that is occurring it can jeopardize the relationship.”

 

 

If reading Brianna Kelly’s article entitled “Being ‘Trapped in the closet’,” on page 12 of our previous issue of the North Philly Metropolis, you have a pretty good idea of what the term means and how it is used. Truthfully, secrets can be a part of what brings a friendship together and what destroys it. Secrets can offer us a choice of whether to live a lie and try to be happy with ourselves or feeling even better with ourselves by revealing it, no matter how dark we assume it to be.  

 

A true hero, Marion Jones, recently revealed a secret that she kept in her closet for quite sometime, now– that she has, in fact, been using a steroid known as Tetrahydrogestrinone or The Clear. The drug has been considered a designer drug, closely related to the banned anabolic steroids gestrinone and trenbolone, and was banned by the Food and Drug Administration. Marion made her announcement on October 5, 2007 admitting that she had been using the steroid before the Summer 2000 Olympics. To make matters worse, Marion also pleaded guilty to a second count of lying to investigators about her association with a check fraud scheme.

 

Long denying she had ever used performance-enhancing drugs, Marion Jones admission did nothing but shock and hurt her millions of fans, especially young up-and-coming female athletes who looked upon Jones as a true role model; not just a role model but a symbol that African-American women can do anything they put their mind to, that African-Americans in general didn’t need drugs of any kind to be good at a sport. It seems that we as African-Americans can only look to the past for inspiration and role models since this current generation is filled with so many frauds who seem so content with keeping secrets that they lose themselves along the way.

 

 

With this little incident one must wonder how such great athletes of the past, such as Wyonia Tyus, think of Marion Jones now. Becoming the first athlete to win two straight Olympic 100-meter titles on October 15, 1968 in Mexico City, and many more along the way, Wyonia Tyus needed no steroids because she was just that good. Marion Jones will be sentenced January 11, 2008. Prosecutors had suggested to her that the prison term would be a maximum of six months

 

And now Marion Jones is left with only memories of the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics. She returned the three gold medals and the two bronzes and then agreed to forfeit all other results dating back to September 1, 2000. The medals were turned over by her attorneys in Austin, Texas, to the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs. Ultimately, it will be up to the International Olympic Committee to decide what to do with her medals, if you can say they ever truly belonged to her to begin with.

 

 

 

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