How 3AW Breakfast secured interview with controversial athlete during Sydney Olympics

September 15 marks the 25th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

And the milestone prompted 3AW Breakfast co-host to recall the moment he and then co-host Dean Banks interviewed controversial American athlete Marion Jones, who was later stripped of her medals due to doping.

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“Poor old Marion was a captive,” he said on 3AW.

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