Ekaterini Thanou, known as Katerina Thanou, is a Greek former sprinter.
11 Facts About Ekaterini Thanou
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Ekaterini Thanou won numerous medals in the 100 metres, including an Olympic silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, while she was the 2002 European champion in Munich, Germany.
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Ekaterini Thanou had been crowned world and European champion in the 60 metres at the indoor championships.
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Ekaterini Thanou was named the Greek Female Athlete of the Year, for the years 1995,2000,2001 and 2002.
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Jones' gold medal was withdrawn but was withheld by the IOC, Ekaterini Thanou remaining a silver medallist.
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Ekaterini Thanou was provisionally selected by the Hellenic Olympic Committee to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Ekaterini Thanou had not achieved the Olympic 'A' standard, but as no other Greek woman had achieved this, she was selected as part of the team.
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However, all of this became moot on 9 August 2008, when the executive board of the IOC decided to bar Ekaterini Thanou from competing under rule 23.2.1 of the Olympic charter.
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Ekaterini Thanou claimed that she faced "intense pressure" to withdraw from the Beijing Olympics, four years after being involved in a major doping controversy at the Athens Games.
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Ekaterini Thanou was tried in 2009 for making false statements to police, to avoid a doping test, on the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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On 6 September 2011, the Guardian newspaper reported that Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Ekaterini Thanou had been acquitted by a Greek appeals court of faking a motorcycle crash after missing a drugs test.