<p>Greece's world indoor high jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis has pulled out of the London Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, the athlete's father said on Thursday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>“Dimitris will not take part in the Olympic Games, leaving unfulfilled a dream of a lifetime,” his father and coach Kyriakos Chondrokoukis said in a statement reported by Greek media and confirmed by a Greek athletics federation official. <br /><br />The 24-year-old high jumper, who was one of Greece's best hopes for a medal in track and field, will seek a retest after testing positive for banned anabolic steroid Stanozolol, his father said. <br /><br />Stanozolol is designed to mimic the effects of the male sex hormone testosterone. <br /><br />“I will fight -- we will fight -- to respond and see exactly what happened,” the statement said. “Not only for us as a family, but for the sports fans who have embraced Dimitris with so much love.”<br /><br />Greek Olympic Committee president Spyros Kapralos said: “We will not tolerate doping. We want to get many medals, however we want clean medals,” he said.<br /><br />Chondrokoukis's exit is the second blow for Greece's Olympics hopes in as many days, after triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was withdrawn from the London team on Wednesday for a tweet on Africans in Greece that was slammed as racist. <br /><br />Chondrokoukis won gold at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul with a personal best of 2.33 metres. His personal best outdoors is 2.32. <br /><br />Chondrokoukis’ lawyer Yannis Marakakis said the athlete would never commit career "suicide" by taking banned substances days before the Olympics and plans to undergo a second test to prove his innocence.</p>
<p>Greece's world indoor high jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis has pulled out of the London Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, the athlete's father said on Thursday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>“Dimitris will not take part in the Olympic Games, leaving unfulfilled a dream of a lifetime,” his father and coach Kyriakos Chondrokoukis said in a statement reported by Greek media and confirmed by a Greek athletics federation official. <br /><br />The 24-year-old high jumper, who was one of Greece's best hopes for a medal in track and field, will seek a retest after testing positive for banned anabolic steroid Stanozolol, his father said. <br /><br />Stanozolol is designed to mimic the effects of the male sex hormone testosterone. <br /><br />“I will fight -- we will fight -- to respond and see exactly what happened,” the statement said. “Not only for us as a family, but for the sports fans who have embraced Dimitris with so much love.”<br /><br />Greek Olympic Committee president Spyros Kapralos said: “We will not tolerate doping. We want to get many medals, however we want clean medals,” he said.<br /><br />Chondrokoukis's exit is the second blow for Greece's Olympics hopes in as many days, after triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was withdrawn from the London team on Wednesday for a tweet on Africans in Greece that was slammed as racist. <br /><br />Chondrokoukis won gold at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul with a personal best of 2.33 metres. His personal best outdoors is 2.32. <br /><br />Chondrokoukis’ lawyer Yannis Marakakis said the athlete would never commit career "suicide" by taking banned substances days before the Olympics and plans to undergo a second test to prove his innocence.</p>