Tim Montgomery, who once held the distinction of being the fastest man on the planet with a 100-meter dash time of 9.78 seconds, is about to become a number of a vastly different, much less celebrated sort.
The 33-year-old one-time partner of Marion Jones -- also a former sprint superstar and also sentenced to jail (she's serving a six-month stint for perjury and obstruction of justice in a Fort Worth facility) -- has landed almost four years in prison courtesy of Judge Kenneth Karas, who told Montgomery, ""Being a track star does not somehow disable someone from saying no."
Actually, I wouldn't count on that. Tim Montgomery Jr., Jones' and Montgomery's four-year-old, is one of four children the Montgomery has fathered.
Montgomery, who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a scam that saw him deposit $1.7 million in fake checks, is also facing charges for heroin distribution. Marion Jones may have had a longer fall from her pinnacle (she held five Olympic medals) to Earth than did Montgomery, but the latter is clearly en route to digging himself much further into ignominy and an all-around bleak future than Jones, whose legal problems will at least be over by fall.
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