Marion milks it for all its worth
Marion Jones, the former Thousand Oaks High track star whose personal life has presented as many hurdles as her professional accomplishments, is pregant and about to remarry. Again on both counts.
Obadele Thompson, the 2000 Olympic bronze medalist winner in the 100 meters, announced his engagement to an expectant Jones and said the marriage will take place in private ceremony on Saturday in North Carolina with close friends and family in attendance.
Jones travelled to Barbados in February 2006 to train with Thompson but there was no indication that the two were romantically linked, according to new information posted on Jones' Wikipedia.com bio.
The three-time gold-medal winning sprinter who has battled performance enhancing drug charges, married shot putter C.J. Hunter in 1998. He ended up resigning as track coach at the University of North Carolina (because he was dating Tar Heels star Jones at the time) and ended up banned from the 2000 Olympics when he tested positive for nandrolone. They divorced a year later.
In 2003, Jones gave birth to a son, Tim Jr., named after his father Tim Montgomery, who broke the 100 meter world record in 2002. Montgomery was eventually banned from the sport after admitting to the use of performance enhancing drugs.
Now comes Thompson, a UTEP grad who scored the first-ever Olympic medal for his country.