The New York Times says that Marion Jones's tainted gold medals from Sydney will in part be distributed and in part will rot in purgatory.
Greece's Katerina Thanou will not be elevated to gold, after her second place finish in 2000 in Australia. Obviously Thanou's behavior in her native Greece during the 2004 Olympics left a bad taste in the IOC's mouth. Thus Thanou, who has never tested positive for steroids but whose behavior reeks of a PED cover up, will be ignored in the record books. Interesting message from the IOC, and not entirely consistent with logic. (but check out Thanou's photo and one sees why she might fit in better with the men's 100M; those are impressive traps for a female)
However in the 200M, the Jones gold wil be awarded to that 2nd place finisher.
The International Olympic Committee redistributed the medals won by the disgraced sprinter
Marion Jones at the 2000 Olympics on Wednesday, but it refused to award her gold medal in the 100 meters to Katerina Thanou of Greece, who was barred from the 2004 Games because of a missed drug test.
Jones surrendered the medals when she admitted in 2007 to lying to federal investigators about performance-enhancing drug use. Normally, the other competitors are moved up in order when medals are surrendered, but Thanou’s later drug testing issues prompted the committee to leave the top spot in the 100 meters vacant. In record books, Thanou and Tanya Lawrence of Jamaica will be listed as silver medalists and Merlene Ottey of Jamaica, who finished fourth in the race, will hold the bronze.
Thanou did not fail a drug test, but she and her teammate Kostas Kenteris missed drug tests
before the 2004 Games in Athens and were kept from competing by Greek Olympic officials after it was determined they had staged a motorcycle crash to cover up their absence. Track and field’s international federation, the I.A.A.F., barred them for two years.
Jones’s gold medal in the 200 meters was awarded to Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas, with the silver going to Susanthika Jayasinghe of Sri Lanka and the bronze to Beverly McDonald of Jamaica. Jones’s bronze medal in the long jump was given to Tatyana Kotova of Russia.
Apparently if the IOC can't catch a drug cheat the first time, they may make a statement some 10 years later...
The fate of the Jones relay medals remains tainted at this point.
The fate of the two medals won by United States relay teams that included Jones in the 2000 Games is still being decided by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. When those medals were stripped from the American teams by the I.O.C., the other members of the relay appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration, which is expected to issue its ruling by Dec. 18.
The pervasiveness of steroid use has made these muscular women like Thanou seem normal. There is a collective loss of outrage. People should have taken one look at her and laughed her out of the Olympics.
Posted by: tennis roids | 12/11/2009 at 19:22
Any trace of Marion Jones's records from high school on up need to be erased as if she never existed. One can argue that we cannot prove that she was cheating then but it doesn't matter. The damage that she has done will last longer than her records.
Posted by: GH | 02/04/2010 at 19:30
An athlete's medals symbolize the pain, struggles and the dignity as an a sportsperson..hence no one can ever blame NYT for putting very high regards to it.
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Track and field is where the doping industry is at it's best. Everyone and i mean everyone is using them one way or another. Totally agree with the decision since Thanou is another doped athlete example. She just wasn't caught but her behaviour proved her guilt.
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