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Thanou won the silver medal in the women's 100m at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2002 she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Munich.

For the 2004 Summer Olympics, Thanou was one of the main hopes of the home crowd for winning an athletics medal. However, on the day prior to the opening ceremony, Thanou and her training partner Konstantinos Kenteris failed to attend a drugs test, and later the same night were hospitalised, claiming they had both been injured in an alleged motorcycle accident. In the ensuing doping scandal, Kenteris and Thanou announced their withdrawal from the Games on August 18, after a hearing before the Disciplinary Commission of the IOC. Their coach Christos Tsekos was also suspended.