[b]REASON FOR POSTING THIS IS TO NOTIFY THAT WHAT CHARLIE BELIEVED ABOUT ZHANNA BLOCK HAS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE. AND ALSO FOR THE HISTORICAL NOTATION OF A SPRINT RACE WHICH OFFICIALLY HAS NO WINNER - THE SYDNEY OLYMPIC WOMEN’S 100M FINAL, NO LESS.
NO COMMENTS ARE NECESSARY PLEASE: CODE OF CONDUCT ISSUE… KK[/b]
New entrant in Sydney 100m shame file
• by: Mike Hurst
• From:The Daily Telegraph
• December 23, 201110:39PM
ANOTHER sprinter in the Sydney Olympic women’s 100m final was yesterday retrospectively banned for doping, confirming the race as officially the dirtiest in track and field history.
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block was slapped with a two-year ban by her Ukraine Athletics Federation, albeit some years after her retirement.
Pintusevich-Block’s downfall follows the 10-year ban on her husband Mark Block. He was found guilty of trafficking drugs provided by BALCO during 2002 and 2003 and giving these previously undetectable designer drugs to his wife.
Pintusevich-Block finished fifth in the Sydney 100m final and had been elevated to fourth after the winner, America’s Marion Jones, was retrospectively disqualified on evidence from the BALCO investigation which started in 2003.
The IOC originally intended to elevate runner-up Ekaterini Thanou but decided not to after she and her training partner, surprise Sydney Olympic 200m winner Konstantinos Kederis, were involved in a scandal as they avoided drug tests on the afternoon of the 2004 Athens Olympics opening ceremony.
With Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey having been picketed by her own teammates in the Sydney athletes’ village after the IAAF inexplicably dropped charges against her following a failed drug test just before the 2000 Games, four of the first five in the 100m final have a drug cloud over them - leaving the Sydney sprint the only Olympic race in history with no winner.
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