While baseball struggles to cope with an ever expanding drug scandal, the Olympic movement is in full blown crisis mode. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Wednesday that gold medals won by former track princess Marion Jones won’t automatically go to the silver medal winner.
Why? Because there’s plenty of other potential Olympic medal winning cheats who haven’t come clean as Jones finally did. Such as Greek sprinter Katerina
Thanou, who won silver in the 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when Jones won gold. Thanou failed to show up for drug tests at the 2004 Athens Games, came up with a lame excuse, pulled out of the competition and was later suspended for two years.
Rogge did not elaborate how the IOC would determine whether someone who finished behind Jones was clean. Maybe he can consult baseball commissioner Bud Selig.
