Christos Tsekos or Christos Tzekos is a Greek athletics coach.

His surname is spelled Tzekos or Tsekos. He was the trainer of the 100m runners Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou. Konstantinos Kenteris, also spelled as Konstadinos Kederis (in Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Κεντέρης born July 11, 1973) is Ekaterini ("Katerina" Thanou (Αικατερίνη (Κατερίνα Θάνου ekateˈrini ˈθanu born February 1, 1975) is a Greek The three were at the center of a huge doping scandal at the start of the 2004 Summer Olympics. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was an International Multi-sport event which was celebrated The athletes were suspended by the IAAF in December 2004 but have been free to compete since December, 2006. The International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. Tsekos is serving a 4-year suspension handed down by the Greek athletics federation in 2005.

Tsekos, a former nutritional supplements salesman who lives alternatingly in his native Greece and his adopted home in Lincolnwood, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), had been involved in a number of doping-related incidents before. Lincolnwood (formerly Tessville is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.

In 1997, at an athletics event in Dortmund, Germany, a row occurred between Tsekos and an IAAF doping controller whom he prevented from testing four of his athletes, among them Thanou and Charis Papadias. Dortmund (ˈdɔʁtmʊnt is a City in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. The International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. However, the doping controller, Klaus Wengoborski, arrived with no identification and without a female official accompanying him, a violation of IAAF regulations at the time. The Greek federation nevertheless suspended Tzekos but no action was taken against the athletes. The IAAF agreed with the Greek federation's ruling. ^[1]

The Greek national health authority fined Tsekos 14. 800 euros for illegally importing anabolic substances. In 2004 a raid on his office uncovered 1400 ampoules containing anabolic and other prohibited substances. ampoule (also ampule) is a small glass sealed Vial which is used to contain or preserve a fluid Some sources say that these were just supplements without the appropriate legal papers for import in Greece.

According to To Vima, a respected Greek daily newspaper, Tsekos had proposed a secret program to the Greek government in 1997, which was projected at a cost of 6 million euros and was intented to provide 150 Greek athletes with non-detectable doping substances in preparation for the 2004 Olympic Games. To Vima (Το ΒΗΜΑ English translation " The Speaker's Platform " is a Greek daily newspaper first published in 1922 by Dimitris The government declined the offer. Tzekos had also stated on Greek TV channel Antenna that he has great admiration for the GDR sports program.

In 2003, it was reported that U. S. authorities found e-mails by Victor Conte addressed to Tzekos while searching BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative), the California company secretly dealing Tetrahydrogestrinone, an anabolic steroid specially designed so as to make it undetectable under normal drug testing. Victor Conte is the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO a controversial sports nutrition center in Burlingame, California The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative also known as BALCO was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative also known as BALCO was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte. Tetrahydrogestrinone (often referred to as THG or The Clear) is an Anabolic steroid. In addition, according to the respected French paper "L'Equipe," Tzekos was directly dealing with the creator of norbolethone and THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) Patrick Arnold, the father of pro-hormone craze and some undetectable designer steroids. Norbolethone ( Genabol) is an Anabolic steroid. It was first developed in 1966 and tested for use as an agent to encourage weight gain and for the treatment of Tetrahydrogestrinone (often referred to as THG or The Clear) is an Anabolic steroid. Patrick Arnold is an American Organic chemist responsible for creating the designer steroid Tetrahydrogestrinone, also known as THG

However in September 2007, Greek prosecutors ruled there was no evidence supporting any connection between Tzekos and BALCO, after examining evidence sent from the district attorney of northern California. ^[2] Tzekos has also continued to insist that he only knew Arnold as a supplier of nutritional supplements, and has denied receiving illegal substances from him.

See also

• Doping (sport)
• List of sporting scandals

References

• Doug Gillon: Greek sprinters edge closer to oblivion after IAAF move. The Herald, Web issue 2177, December 23 2004 (accessed 3 January 2005; copy at the Internet Archive)
• Heinz Peter Kreuzer: Saubere Medaillen. The Herald is a national Broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and Deutschlandfunk 23 August 2004 (in German, accessed 3 January 2005)
• http://iht.com/articles/534473.html (International Herald Tribune, accessed 3 January 2005)

Deutschlandfunk The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international Newspaper

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