The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
The lawyer of Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou is threatening to sue the IOC unless it awards his client Marion Jones' forfeited 100 metres gold medal from the 2000 Olympics. Simon Hart reports.
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... race in spectacular fashion.Costas Kenteris, 200 meters champion at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and Katerina Thanou, 100 meters silver medalist at the same Games, were nowhere to be found when doping testers went for a surprise check in the athletes' village on August 11.It was the beginning of a five-day doping saga that would overshadow the start of the Games and end with the sprinters...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou is hoping to compete at the Beijing Olympics after serving a two-year ban due to missing drug tests before the Athens Games in 2004. The 33 year old finished third in 11.70 seconds at a track meet on Wednesday behind Uzbekistan'??s Guzel Khubbieba who won in 11.38 seconds and Russian Yuliya Gushchina who came second with a time of 11.64. Thanou was...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
... the GB trials and revealed he is ready to launch a High Court action to overturn his Olympic ban.Katerina Thanou's lawyer said she was ready to sue if she did not receive the Olympic gold medal vacated by another cheat, Marion Jones, and Justin Gatlin's four-year ban for a second drug offence was confirmed.Oh, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the world's fastest man, breaking...
