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Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane - An Illustrated Autobiography
For the first time ever, Marion Jones gives her account of the victories, defeats, controversies and breakthroughs of her life. She sheds light on her private mission to become the fastest woman of all time while dealing with such events as her father abandoning her,the controversy over her then husband testing positive for steroids, as well as her new life as the hard-working mother of an infant son with sprinter Tim Montgomery.
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224 pages, Hardcover
First published July 8, 2004
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October 11, 2016
This book was one of the most shocking Auto Biography of someone life I have ever read. The explanation of the book will have your mind set of how great of a woman Marion Jones was, and how hard of a battle she fought to get what she always wanted. Then the outcome of her lifestyle left a lot of people traumatized and sour. After overcoming two broken bones in her (left) foot, at two different times, Marion Jones was still the fastest women in the world. She was a determined to win a gold medal.
Growing up Marion Jones was a tom boy she loved playing sports and competing with her (only) brother she had. At a young age she was a freak of nature and she could do almost anything a male could do and play any sport including football. She grew up in California where she was nationally ranked in high school for track and field. She unfortunately received a Division 1 scholarship to the University of North Carolina for basketball, but was able to persuade her coach into letting her run track also. She was also a really good basketball player but being recruited no one knew about her hidden talent in track. Her college coaches had no idea she was nationally ranked in track coming out of high school. This is the school she appeared to get both of her injuries at with her foot. She was a dream chaser and wouldn’t quit until her goal was accomplished.
This was an engaging and astonishing book for me to read. I liked this book because it shows me that no matter how difficult the path is that you take to success, it’s always still a way to reach your goal. She also in the book let readers know that “No matter the age or strength it’s all about the training,” meaning that she was the youngest person in the event and had a lot of confidence. I like the confidence as a reader keeping me on my toes as to what happens next. The strive and hungriness was great, she was driven to get what she wanted.
The down fall of the book that I didn’t like was some parts of the story was depressing. This was a great book but at the end I found out Marion Jones was performing with enhancing drugs, she used that to her advantage to beat all of her opponents. That was depressing after she stated “I have always been unequivocal in my opinion: I am against performance enhancing drugs I have never taken them and I never will take them.” She told that to the media and lied. That takes the joy out of the book and change my perception of it.
Yes I would recommend readers to read this book. I would recommend this book for readers that like to be motivated to reach their goal. Sports readers, Magazine readers, and sports analyst’s that like to read Auto Biography on different players and athletes.
I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
Growing up Marion Jones was a tom boy she loved playing sports and competing with her (only) brother she had. At a young age she was a freak of nature and she could do almost anything a male could do and play any sport including football. She grew up in California where she was nationally ranked in high school for track and field. She unfortunately received a Division 1 scholarship to the University of North Carolina for basketball, but was able to persuade her coach into letting her run track also. She was also a really good basketball player but being recruited no one knew about her hidden talent in track. Her college coaches had no idea she was nationally ranked in track coming out of high school. This is the school she appeared to get both of her injuries at with her foot. She was a dream chaser and wouldn’t quit until her goal was accomplished.
This was an engaging and astonishing book for me to read. I liked this book because it shows me that no matter how difficult the path is that you take to success, it’s always still a way to reach your goal. She also in the book let readers know that “No matter the age or strength it’s all about the training,” meaning that she was the youngest person in the event and had a lot of confidence. I like the confidence as a reader keeping me on my toes as to what happens next. The strive and hungriness was great, she was driven to get what she wanted.
The down fall of the book that I didn’t like was some parts of the story was depressing. This was a great book but at the end I found out Marion Jones was performing with enhancing drugs, she used that to her advantage to beat all of her opponents. That was depressing after she stated “I have always been unequivocal in my opinion: I am against performance enhancing drugs I have never taken them and I never will take them.” She told that to the media and lied. That takes the joy out of the book and change my perception of it.
Yes I would recommend readers to read this book. I would recommend this book for readers that like to be motivated to reach their goal. Sports readers, Magazine readers, and sports analyst’s that like to read Auto Biography on different players and athletes.
I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars.
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Marion Jones Life In The Fast Lane
Marion Jones and Kate Sekules
Autobiography
207 pages
She is the first woman to win five track and field medals in a single Olympics. For the past six years, she has dominated national and international track and field. At 15, she was the fastest teenage sprinter in the United States, and not only went on to become an Olympic alternate, but also led North Carolina's Lady Tar Heels college basketball team to a 1994 NCAA championship in her freshman year. An ambassador for her sport and a role model to millions, Marion Jones is also a fiercely independant woman who tackles the complications and struggles of life off the track with the same dedication and honesty she brings to her unparalleled athletic achievements.
Now here is her story on her terms and in her own words: the rigorous, uncompromising, 24/7 side of extreme athletic commitment. The hope--and pain--of her lifelong struggle to make peace with her father's indifference. The truth behind one of track and field's most recent controversies. And the hard work--and rewards--of juggling a top-level competitive career with motherhood, Candid, down-to-earth, and uniquely insightful, Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane is an inside look into the current boom in woman's sports and a self-portrait of an athlete as real and complex as she is successful and inspiring.
Marion Jones Life In The Fast Lane
Marion Jones and Kate Sekules
Autobiography
207 pages
She is the first woman to win five track and field medals in a single Olympics. For the past six years, she has dominated national and international track and field. At 15, she was the fastest teenage sprinter in the United States, and not only went on to become an Olympic alternate, but also led North Carolina's Lady Tar Heels college basketball team to a 1994 NCAA championship in her freshman year. An ambassador for her sport and a role model to millions, Marion Jones is also a fiercely independant woman who tackles the complications and struggles of life off the track with the same dedication and honesty she brings to her unparalleled athletic achievements.
Now here is her story on her terms and in her own words: the rigorous, uncompromising, 24/7 side of extreme athletic commitment. The hope--and pain--of her lifelong struggle to make peace with her father's indifference. The truth behind one of track and field's most recent controversies. And the hard work--and rewards--of juggling a top-level competitive career with motherhood, Candid, down-to-earth, and uniquely insightful, Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane is an inside look into the current boom in woman's sports and a self-portrait of an athlete as real and complex as she is successful and inspiring.
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