Retroactive re-writing of sports history: it’s not just for the NCAA anymore!
Remember the women’s 100m race at the Sydney games? No you don’t. Because according to the IOC, it never happened.
Marion Jones had already been stripped of her five medals at the 2000 games for doping. Today the IOC gave out two of her golds to the second-place finishers, but not in the 100 meters. It becomes the first event ever in which no gold medal was awarded.
The silver medalist, Katerina Thanou of Greece, wasn’t awarded the gold because she evaded drug tests at the Athens games four years later. …
Let’s get this straight. Thanou was denied a gold in Sydney even though she never tested positive for anything, even though it happened at a completely different Olympic games, and even though she was already punished in Athens?
Sounds like solid reasoning to me.
The 1992 and 1993 Michigan, 1996 UMass, and 2008 Memphis Final Four teams Teams-That-Must-Not-Be-Named send their condolences.