Thanou may miss out on medal
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December 9, 2009, Wednesday
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INTERNATIONAL Olympic leaders are finally ready to reallocate the individual medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping - but withhold the 100-meter gold from another drug-tainted athlete.
Nine years after the 2000 Games, the International Olympic Committee is set to redistribute some of the five medals - three gold and two bronze - that Jones won in Sydney with the aid of performance-enhancing drugs.
At a two-day meeting starting today in Lausanne, Switzerland, the IOC executive board will decide to hand out Jones' gold in the 200 meters and bronze in the long jump but not give disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou the 100-meter gold.
While Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas is to be upgraded from silver to gold in the 200, the IOC will not reward Thanou in the 100 because she was at the center of another drug scandal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Thanou and fellow Greek runner Kostas Kenteris missed drug tests on the eve of the opening ceremony, claimed they were injured in a motorcycle crash and were hospitalized. They were forced to pull out of the games and were later banned for two years by the IAAF.
Thanou and Kenteris - the men's 200m winner in Sydney - are still awaiting trial in Greece on misdemeanor charges of staging the motorcycle crash to avoid the drug tests.
Although Thanou never tested positive and has not been linked to doping in Sydney, the IOC can deny her the gold medal based on her behavior in Athens.
The IOC barred Thanou from last year's Beijing Games, saying her drug-testing case in Athens was a "scandalous saga" that brought the Olympics into disrepute.
The prospect of Thanou being promoted to the gold medal has vexed IOC leaders ever since Jones admitted in 2007 that she used steroids at the time of the Sydney Games.
Nine years after the 2000 Games, the International Olympic Committee is set to redistribute some of the five medals - three gold and two bronze - that Jones won in Sydney with the aid of performance-enhancing drugs.
At a two-day meeting starting today in Lausanne, Switzerland, the IOC executive board will decide to hand out Jones' gold in the 200 meters and bronze in the long jump but not give disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou the 100-meter gold.
While Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas is to be upgraded from silver to gold in the 200, the IOC will not reward Thanou in the 100 because she was at the center of another drug scandal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Thanou and fellow Greek runner Kostas Kenteris missed drug tests on the eve of the opening ceremony, claimed they were injured in a motorcycle crash and were hospitalized. They were forced to pull out of the games and were later banned for two years by the IAAF.
Thanou and Kenteris - the men's 200m winner in Sydney - are still awaiting trial in Greece on misdemeanor charges of staging the motorcycle crash to avoid the drug tests.
Although Thanou never tested positive and has not been linked to doping in Sydney, the IOC can deny her the gold medal based on her behavior in Athens.
The IOC barred Thanou from last year's Beijing Games, saying her drug-testing case in Athens was a "scandalous saga" that brought the Olympics into disrepute.
The prospect of Thanou being promoted to the gold medal has vexed IOC leaders ever since Jones admitted in 2007 that she used steroids at the time of the Sydney Games.
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