Marion Jones...Track's First Female Millionaire Almost Broke
Posted: June 24th, 2007, 11:54 pm
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandf ... id=2915341
Dang, I still gotta pay $20 just to enter a race...and that's the el cheapo price without the "free" t-shirt.
Dang, I still gotta pay $20 just to enter a race...and that's the el cheapo price without the "free" t-shirt.
The sprinter is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments and down to a bank balance of about $2,000, according to recent court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times...
...In her prime, Jones was one of track's first female millionaires, typically earning between $70,000 and $80,000 a race, plus at least another $1 million from race bonuses and endorsement deals.