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IOC withholds Jones' 100m gold from Thanou
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December 11, 2009, Friday
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IT'S time to rewrite the Olympic record books: There was no gold medal winner in the women's 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Games.
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday reallocated two individual medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping but, in an unprecedented move, withheld her 100-meter prize from Greek Katerina Thanou for evading drug tests.
The decision means the first two runners across the line in Sydney have both been denied the winner's medal for doping violations, and the gold in sprinting's marquee event will remain without an owner - believed to be a first in the 113-year history of the modern Olympics.
"The IOC feels we have a strong moral and a good legal case for that," spokesman Mark Adams said.
"We are not legally bound to give medals. We have decided not to give her (Thanou) an honor that we don't think she deserves."
Nine years later, Olympic leaders redistributed some of the five Sydney medals taken away from Jones for doping. While the IOC executive board in Lausanne, Switzerland, awarded Jones' gold in the 200 meters and bronze in the long jump to the next place finishers, it refused Thanou the 100 gold because of her involvement in a drug scandal at the 2004 Athens Games.
Thanou never tested positive and was not linked to doping in Sydney, but was accused along with Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris of dodging drug-testers in Athens and faking a motorcycle crash as a cover-up.
While the results and rankings are up to the International Association of Athletics Federations, the IOC controls the Olympic medals.
Tanya Lawrence of Jamaica, who finished third in the 100 in Sydney, will now move up to second and become the duplicate silver medalist with Thanou. Merlene Ottey, who competed for Jamaica but is now a Slovenian citizen, goes from fourth to third. Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas is promoted from silver to gold in the 200, with Sri Lanka's Susanthika Jayasinghe moving up from bronze to silver and Jamaica's Beverly McDonald from fourth to third. Russia's Tatyana Kotova is upgraded from fourth to bronze in the long jump.
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday reallocated two individual medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping but, in an unprecedented move, withheld her 100-meter prize from Greek Katerina Thanou for evading drug tests.
The decision means the first two runners across the line in Sydney have both been denied the winner's medal for doping violations, and the gold in sprinting's marquee event will remain without an owner - believed to be a first in the 113-year history of the modern Olympics.
"The IOC feels we have a strong moral and a good legal case for that," spokesman Mark Adams said.
"We are not legally bound to give medals. We have decided not to give her (Thanou) an honor that we don't think she deserves."
Nine years later, Olympic leaders redistributed some of the five Sydney medals taken away from Jones for doping. While the IOC executive board in Lausanne, Switzerland, awarded Jones' gold in the 200 meters and bronze in the long jump to the next place finishers, it refused Thanou the 100 gold because of her involvement in a drug scandal at the 2004 Athens Games.
Thanou never tested positive and was not linked to doping in Sydney, but was accused along with Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris of dodging drug-testers in Athens and faking a motorcycle crash as a cover-up.
While the results and rankings are up to the International Association of Athletics Federations, the IOC controls the Olympic medals.
Tanya Lawrence of Jamaica, who finished third in the 100 in Sydney, will now move up to second and become the duplicate silver medalist with Thanou. Merlene Ottey, who competed for Jamaica but is now a Slovenian citizen, goes from fourth to third. Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas is promoted from silver to gold in the 200, with Sri Lanka's Susanthika Jayasinghe moving up from bronze to silver and Jamaica's Beverly McDonald from fourth to third. Russia's Tatyana Kotova is upgraded from fourth to bronze in the long jump.
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