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Christos TzekosChristos Tsekos is a Greek athletics coach. He was the trainer of the 100m runners Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou. The three were at the center of a huge doping scandal at the start of the 2004 Summer Olympics. They were suspended by the IAAF in December 2004. 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. 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 Ekaterini Thanou and Charis Papadias. In 2003, U.S. authorities found E-mails from Tsekos while searching Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, the company producing Tetrahydrogestrinone, an anabolic steroid specially designed so as to make it undetectable under normal drug testing. 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. According to To Wima, a respected Greek daily newspaper, Tsekos had proposed a secret programme to the Greek government in 1997, which was projected at a cost of 6 million Euros and was to provide 150 Greek athletes with non-detectable doping substances in preparation for the 2004 Olympic Games. The government declined the offer.
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