Bayern Munich and Franck Ribéry also appeal to Lausanne court this week
Chateau de Bethusy, home to Cas, Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Marion Jones and her US relay team lost their medals after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games because of doping on her part. This week lawyers for seven women on the team are in Lausanne to argue their case against the IOC’s (International Olympic Committee) decision, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Cas. One of the key issues has been the timeframe, because Jones lost her medals eight years after the Games.
Cas also opened a procedure Monday to review the appeal by football club Bayern Munich and its player Franck Ribéry against a decision by the Uefa Appeals Body to suspend the player for three months after he was handed a ref’s red card for tackling. That decision was taken 5 May. The club and player are asking for a one-game only suspension. Cas says it should be able to rule by 18 May.
In another high profile case handled by Cas, the parties to a dispute over the Togo football team’s suspension from the next two Africa Cup of Nations have agreed to drop the case for now in favour of arbitration. The team was suspended when it dropped out of the last Cup games after its team’s bus was the target of a deadly attack in Angola in January 2010.
Links to other sites: AP, Cas
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Marion Jones, the six-time Olympic winner who was stripped of her medals in 2007, has had her medals reallocated, the IOC announced 9 December. She participated in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and in one event in Athens in 2004.
The medals reallocated were for:
- 100m, where Jones placed first, but the Gold was not given to the runner-up, Greek Ekatirini Thanou, who herself missed a mandated drugs test prior to the Games in Athens. She was awarded the Silver medal.
- 200m, where Jones placed first: Gold awarded to Pauline Davis-Thompson (Bahamas)
- Long Jump, where Jones placed third: Bronze awarded to Tatyana Kotova (Russia)
- Jones ran in the 1,600m and 400m relay races which placed first and third. The medals in those races will be reallocated following a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
