(If they lie about where they are, its not a stretch to think they lie about what they take/don't take - MJR)
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/gen/wire?messageId=10472620 Wednesday, April 2 Athletics-Greek federation to investigate whereabouts of Kederis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reuters By Daniel Howden ATHENS, April 2 (Reuters) - The Greek athletics federation (SEGAS) ordered sprint coach Christos Tzekos to explain the whereabouts of Olympic 200 metres champion Konstadinos Kederis and training partner Ekaterini Thanou on Wednesday. The call came after Tzekos, Kenteris and Olympic 100 metres silver medallist Thanou were seen in Qatar after telling SEGAS they were training in Crete. Under the rules of the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), athletes must give current information of their whereabouts to enable out-of-competition drug testing. The IAAF said the incident was embarrassing for SEGAS and that their anti-doping department would be speaking to Greek officials over the incident. "We will be looking into this," said IAAF communications director Nick Davis. According to SEGAS, Tzekos' had declared Kederis, the world 200m champion, and European 100m winner Thanou would be in Hania, Crete during March and April. "The change of training base was done on their (Tzekos') initiative without the knowledge of the board of SEGAS or its president," the Greek federation said in a statement. In a telephone interview with Reuters, Tzekos confirmed he had relocated his athletes but denied doing so to avoid dope tests. "If I went somewhere with my girlfriend do I have to inform everybody? I just went somewhere for a few days and to have fun. They want to crucify me and I don't know why," he said. Tzekos said both Kederis and Thanou had undergone dope tests three times in the last 12 months. SEGAS were forced to admit on Monday that they did not know the athletes' whereabouts after an interview appeared in the Saturday edition of Qatar newspaper Alragia, titled: "Greek athletes training in (capital of Qatar) Doha." The head coach of Greece's Olympic team, Odysseas Papatollis said it was Tzekos' decision to relocate his athletes without telling anyone. "He told us that he was going to Hania and then a week later went to Qatar without asking leave of anyone," he said. SEGAS faced questions over their cooperation in doping controls from the IAAF last November after general secretary, Istvan Gyulai, complained that Greek athletes were not being made available for out-of-competition testing. SEGAS denied withholding competitors and said in a statement at the time: "We were surprised to hear that inspectors had come to Greece three times recently, asked Greek athletes to take tests and found very few athletes abiding. "It is certain that if there were violations as reported, the IAAF has nothing further to do than to punish us." Copyright © 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
