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Disgraced former athletics star Marion Jones completed her fall from grace when she was sentenced to six months in prison for lying about taking steroids in a doping scandal that cost the sprinter her five Olympic medals.

Jones’s humiliating fall from grace accelerated when she admitted she lied to federal investigators about being a dope cheat and about her role in a check fraud scheme and culminated with the prison sentence.

“The offenses here are serious,” said US District Court Judge Kenneth Karas. “They each involve lies made three years apart.”

In passing sentence, Karas said that Jones had made “not a one-off mistake… but a repetition in an attempt to break the law.

“Nobody is above the legal obligation to tell the truth,” he said, adding, “I recognize this is not a happy day for you or for your family.”

Jones, 32, pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal agents over a steroid distribution scandal involving California laboratory BALCO and her role in a check fraud scheme.

After the sentence was imposed, a tearful Jones shared an embrace with her husband, Barbados sprinter Obedele Thompson, and other family members.

A still-emotional Jones later spoke briefly to reporters outside the courthouse.

“I respect the judge’s orders and I truly hope that people will learn from my mistakes,” Jones said.

Jones admitted in a statement to the court before sentencing that she was “scared and nervous about today’s outcome,” breaking down in tears as she pleaded with the judge to spare her jail time.

“Yes, I made mistakes by lying,” she said. “I have admitted these too late but hopefully not too late to elicit from you the milk of human kindness.”

“We all make mistakes,” she added. “But I strongly believe that a person’s true character is revealed by their admission of those mistakes,” she said.

Jones was also sentenced to two years’ supervised release and 400 hours of community service.

Jones must submit herself into custody by March 11 to begin serving a sentence that Karas said was meant to deter other athletes from following down Jones’ path.

“Athletes in society have an elevated status. They entertain, they inspire and perhaps most importantly they do serve as role models for children around the world,” Karas said.

“When there is this widespread cheating… It sends all the wrong messages to those who follow the athlete’s every moves.”

Andrea Andrade said Karas sent a different message to athletes by imposing a prison sentence upon her cousin.

“The message to professional athletes is to not tell the truth because you will be dealt with more harshly if you tell the truth than if you deny and you are found guilty,” she said.

Karas had previously asked why Jones should not be made to serve each perjury sentence consecutively rather than at the same time.

Defense and prosecution lawyers appealed to him not to stretch out the time given the public humiliation she has endured.

Prosecutors asked that Jones be given a six-month sentence as was agreed in her plea bargain, which saved the effort of trials on both charges. Defense attorneys had said she should serve no jail time given her downfall.

“We were very disappointed by the sentence. We felt it was much, much too harsh,” said George Hulse, Jones’s grandfather.

“We were hoping for (only) community service. She could have used this time much more effectively rather than spend that six months in prison.”

A tearful confession to doping after years of denials was followed by Jones returning the three gold medals and two bronze medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics to the International Olympic Committee.

Jones captured gold in the 100- and 200-meters at Sydney and helped the 4×100m relay to gold as well. She was also a five-time world champion.

But now, Jones has had all results since September 1, 2000, stricken from the records and has been banned by the IAAF, although she has retired from competition.

Jones lied to federal agents three times, starting in November of 2003 when asked about her connections to the BALCO steroid scandal.

In August and September of 2006, Jones was questioned about a check fraud scheme involving Tim Montgomery, the father of her son Tim who himself was banned and stripped of a 100m world-record run based on evidence collected in the BALCO probe.

Courtesy of MSN.com