It's a Team Sport, Ladies.

U.S. sprinter Marion Jones was stripped of her Olympic medals for use of performance enhancing drugs. No one complains about that.

Jones' also won several medals for her participation on relay teams. Not only was Jones' stripped of her relay medals, so were her relay teammates. Her teammates are complaining about that.

Mark Levenstein, their attorney, said ""These are good people who didn't do anything wrong." True.

They should be very upset with Marion. They should also give back the medals.

In basketball, if one player gets a technical, his entire team suffers. If football, if one player clips another, his entire team suffers. In baseball, if one guy bats out of order, his entire team suffers. In hockey, if one guy gets a penalty, his entire team suffers.

That's why they call it a "team." Sometimes, a teammate can let you down. Marion let down her teammates. They have to pay the price for her transgressions.

Sj-hypocycloidAll-American

576 days ago

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Man...I've clicked on this one three times. I can see both sides so clearly - I don't think I'd be too happy to have to give back the medal. I can't decide how I feel about this issue. The fallout from the performance enhancing drugs era has already been tremendous. And I suspect that we may only be scratching the surface.

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KelsdadAll-Star

576 days ago

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Typical reaction. The suits and ties in the corporate office are so wrapped up covering their own asses they can barely decide where to go for lunch, much less make a decision of this magnitude. Jones is the only one going to prison. Jones is the only one slapped with a lifetime participation ban, yet the whole team has to forfeit their medals? I'd sue too.

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