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Finally Marion

AFP, Athens
Marion Jones will emerge from the cocoon of the US team on Wednesday to finally make her debut in the Athens Olympics.
The appearance of Jones in the long jump qualifiers and the attempt by Australia's Jana Pittman to win gold in the 400 metres hurdles are the two highlights of the evening's action in the Olympic Stadium.
Few people could have predicted what has happened to Jones in the four years since she won three gold medals at the Sydney Games.
She split from disgraced shot putter husband CJ Hunter, lost her 100 metres title in the 2001 world championships, had a baby son with world 100 metres record holder Tim Montgomery and has been accused by Hunter of using steroids and other drugs.
Jones has never tested positive for drugs, yet is under investigation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
She failed to qualify to defend either her 100m or 200m Olympic title and ironically only made the team in what is considered her weakest event, the long jump.
Provided they both qualify for Friday's final, Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia will be hungry to beat Jones after finishing in just the bronze medal position in the triple jump on Monday.
Lededeva has the longest jump in the world this year, 7.33 metres, to Jones' best of 7.11m.
On the track Pittman is hoping her surgically repaired knee will stand up to one more race.
Pittman thought her Olympic dream was over when she injured her knee warming up for her race at the Zurich Golden League meeting on August 6.
An operation was swiftly arranged and less than two weeks later the 21-year-old eased through
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her first round race. The knee swelled up ahead of Sunday's semi-final but Pittman qualified behind Russia's world record holder Yulia Pechen-kina.
The biggest threat will come from Greek athlete Fani Halkia, who has made an astonishing improvement in these Games, setting an Olympic record of 52.77sec in winning her semifinal.
Halkia has already sliced more than a second off her previous best time and the frenzied home support could push her to one of the most unexpected victories of the Games.
In other action, 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia goes for the second half of his bid for a double not achieved since 1980 when he goes in the heats of the 5,000m.