Jones falls flat at Russia&#39;s party
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After being crowned the queen of Sydney, Marion Jones could hardly have imagined four years ago that she would be coming to the next Olympic Games with a guarantee of competing in only one event.
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ATHENS -- The spotlight returned to Marion Jones last night, dimmer but harsher than four years ago. The warming glow is gone, the celebrity tarnished by innuendoes about drug use, and whatever flattering light remains comes from the same smile that lit up the Sydney Games.
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but investors haven&#39;t been doing the same. Yesterday, shares of Jones fell approximately 3% following the announcement
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The number of candidates challenging the Kremlin's choice for president dwindled Wednesday when the leader of a pro-business party dropped out of the race.
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In the precious milliseconds it took to miss the exchange of an aluminum relay baton, American Marion Jones&#39; brave smile gave way to a flood of tears.
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Marion Jones reached and found nothing. Not in her well of reserves to get off a jump. Not in the emptiness of a missed relay connection.
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Once the darling of international track and field, now teetering on the brink of disgrace, Marion Jones on Tuesday became the subject of an International Olympic Committee investigation into allegations of doping offenses as a result of BALCO owner Victor
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The Russian president's announcement Monday was no surprise, but analysts had also expected him to bolster the relatively weakpremiership.
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Russia's fragmented opposition  marshalled its thin ranks against President Vladimir Putin on  Saturday, but a modest turnout at a Moscow rally -- dwarfed by  the police presence -- only underscored his grip on power.
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MARION JONES again today denied taking banned drugs to help win five gold medals at the 2000 Olympics. Her latest statement came hours after the International Olympic Committee announced a steroid probe.
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Marion Jones will not race again this season because she says her conditioning is lacking after taking a month off following her positive EPO test.
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Nobody in Russia seems to know how scrapping the popular vote in regional elections can help Russia&#39;s war against terrorism. ULYANOVSK, Russia--In the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, Russians were expecting
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When Roy Jones Jr. showed up on Thursday for a press conference in the lobby of the Fed Ex Forum, the most noticeable thing about him - the thing that everybody in the arena commented onâwas how small, even fragile, he looked.
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No actual progress is seen in the attitude of the Russian side towards signing and ratifying the border agreement with Latvia despite the publicly-declared stance, Minister of Foreign Affairs Artis Pabriks has ...
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ATHENS, Greece - A botched relay handoff doomed Marion Jones' chances of winning even a single medal at the Athens Olympics, a disastrous ending to her summer of turmoil and disappointment. Hoping to win a pair of golds Friday, Jones was shut out instead...
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Former Olympic sprint   champion Marion Jones hopes to compete in next week's World Cup   in Athletics and the Shanghai meeting later this month after   being cleared of doping allegations, her manager said on   Thursday.
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The Kremlin&#39;s candidate has won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue the separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.