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Simon and Schuster
November 2010
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Featuring: Marion Jones
224 pages
ISBN: 1451610823
EAN: 9781451610826
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For more than a decade, Marion Jones was hailed as the “the
fastest woman on the planet.” At the 2000 Olympic Games in
Sydney, Australia, she became the first woman ever to win
five medals at one Olympics. That same year, the Associated
Press and ESPN named her Athlete of the Year. She was on the
cover of Vogue and Time. She seemed to have it
all—fame, fortune, talent, and international acclaim. Now
she is a convicted felon. The trouble started in 2003
when she lied to federal agents about her use of a
performance-enhancing drug and her knowledge of a check
fraud scam. In 2007, no longer able to live with the lies,
she admitted the truth. In a sad end to what seemed like a
storybook career, she was stripped of her medals, and her
track-and-field records were wiped from the books. She
was incarcerated at Carswell federal prison in Fort Worth,
Texas—a prison known for its violence and abuse. While
there, she kept herself in shape and her sanity intact by
running on a dirt track and a treadmill in the prison’s
improvised weight room. But her imprisonment was not the end
for Marion Jones. In fact, it marked a new beginning. She is
now using her story to change the lives of people the world
over and inspire others who, like her, face obstacles that
seem insurmountable. On the Right Track is the
candidly told story of how Marion came to grips with her
lies and the consequences of her actions, and how she found
meaning in all of it. What she tells her children and has
now applied to her own life is that when you make a mistake,
you admit it, you accept the consequences, you move on, you
make the wrong a right. She teaches her children and others
to take a break and pause before making impulsive and
potentially harmful decisions. At the heart of this
book are real issues that we all face: learning to grow
through pain; making decisions that will help us far into
the future; overcoming failure and discouragement; and
applying practical principles that point the way to personal
and spiritual breakthrough.
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