US sprinter Collings gets eight years ban for drug use
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Sprinter Michelle Collins received an eight years ban for using a variety of baned substances which linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) scandal.
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MICHELLE COLLINS, of the United States, the former world indoor 200 metres champion, was suspended for eight years yesterday for drug abuse in a landmark ruling in the fight against doping.
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The highest-ranking US soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison case was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison, the severest punishment so far in the scandal that broke in April with the publication of photos and video showing
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Michelle Collins, who won the world athletics indoor 200 metres for the United States last year, was yesterday suspended for eight years despite the fact that she has never tested positive or admitted doping violations.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Former world indoor 200  meters champion Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years  on Friday after being found guilty of doping charges in  connection with the BALCO scandal.
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Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for four years for a 2006 positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone, The Washington Post reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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Olympic 400 meter relay gold medallist  Alvin Harrison has been banned for four years after he admitted  taking a variety of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Sprinter Michelle Collins has been suspended for eight years for abusing steroids, and will have to forfeit trophies that include 2003 world and US titles in the indoor 200 meters.
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Rock star Pete Doherty has been fined 770 pounds and banned from driving for four months for possessing illegal drugs, including crack cocaine and heroin.
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A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced  Baltimore Ravens football star Jamal Lewis on Wednesday to four  months in prison and one year of probation for using a cell  phone to try to set up a cocaine deal.
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MADRID : American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who won the Olympic time trial gold medal last month, faces a two-year ban after becoming the first ever athlete to give a positive test for blood doping.
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Sprinter Jerome Young, a central figure in a doping case that could cost the US relay team its gold medal from Sydney, was banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency yesterday following his second positive test for a banned drug.
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency last night banned the sprinter Michelle Collins for eight years, even though she has never tested positive for drugs, in a case which could have serious repercussions for Marion Jones.
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Tank Johnson of the Chicago Bears, released from jail last month after serving 60 days for violating probation on a guns charge, was suspended Monday for eight games for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.
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Sprinter selected for World Indoor Championships despite opposition over previous drug ban
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - U.S. sprinter Mickey  Grimes has been suspended for two years after testing positive  for the anabolic steroid norandrosterone, the U.S. Anti-Doping  Agency (USADA) said on Friday.
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Martina Hingis was banned for two years Friday for testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon last year.