Ekaterini Thanou
Aikaterini Thanou [ θanu ] (Greek Αικατερίνη Θάνου, born 1 February 1975 in Athens ) is a former Greek athlete.
Thanou surprisingly won the silver medal in the 100 m race at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 it was about 100 m European champion.
For the 2004 Olympic Games in her hometown Thanou was one of the biggest medal hopes of the Greek population in the athletics competitions, but was suspended after a doping control bypassed.
Events at the Olympic Games 2004
On the evening of August 12, 2004 Thanou was along with her teammates, the Greek 200 -meter Olympic champion Konstantinos Kenteris summoned in the Olympic Village to a doping control. This could not meet the two athletes as they allegedly were back on the way home to pick up "personal matters". However, as the Greek sports official Manolis Kolybadis told on August 15th at the Greek Privatfernsehsebder Alpha TV, he had the two athletes reported when entering the Olympic Village of the impending inspection, after which they were panic ( " they were like startled pigeons ").
The period allowed them two hours to make up the test, Kenteris and Thanou were being missed, as they had in the meantime due to a motorcycle accident in a hospital have to go.
However, soon inconsistencies in this story were known, since residents had noticed nothing of the accident, the police no accident report was received, and the two athletes did not went to the hospital near the accident site, but in a hospital in another district.
Yet on August 12 appointed IOC President Jacques Rogge, enter the internal disciplinary committee, which was comprised of three IOC Executive Board members Thomas Bach, Serhiy Bubka and Denis Oswald. The Commission wanted to accord the Greek athlete in the morning of August 13. Since Kenteris and Thanou but could produce a medical certificate, was the hearing on Monday, August 16, postponed.
As the proven, conscious denial of a doping control the same as a positive control is considered, this would have a two -year ban and the immediate exclusion of the affected athletes from the Olympic Games result.
On August 14, the Greek National Olympic Committee decided, after heated debate, with 5-1 against the voice of its President Lambis Nikolaou, Kenteris and Thanou not immediately exclude from the Greek team, but suspended the athletes only up to the hearing on 16 August.
This hearing was then postponed to August 18. There Kenteris and Thanou returned their accreditation for the Olympic Games. Thanou announced their intention to end their careers.
Lock and comeback
A two-year competition ban because of missed doping tests ended in December 2006. A originally being set for 2007 trial before a Greek court for perjury against Kenteris and Thanou was twice postponed and would take place in February 2009. Thanou and Kenteris were convicted in May 2011 of perjury to 31 months in prison, on probation, their coaches to 33 months and six doctors and two alleged accident witnesses to at least half a year.
At the Track European Indoor Championships 2007 in Birmingham Thanou started the first time after their lock back on the international stage. They finished sixth in the 60 - m- finals and was reprimanded by the British public at every performance with whistles.
Since Thanou with a qualifying time of 11.39 s filled the Olympic standard, she was nominated by the NOC of Greece for the 2008 Olympic Games on July 15, 2008. On August 10, 2008 by Thanou IOC was excluded from the Olympic Games in Beijing, the 33- year-old was denied accreditation.