Russian shot put champion stripped of medal
293344
Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The second medalist at the Olympic Games has tested positive for an illegal drug and been stripped of a medal.
3851
ATHENS, Greece Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offense. It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping.
565193
Hungary&#39;s Olympic discus champion Robert Fazekas has been stripped of his gold medal after being caught trying to switch his urine sample during a mandatory drugs test, an International Olympic Committee source confirmed today.
173540
Greek Olympic 200 metre champion Costas Kenteris, the focus of an Olympic doping scandal, has withdrawn from the Athens Games &quot;out of a sense of responsibility&quot;.
294060
ATHENS, Greece A Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal. Leonidas Sampanis also has been expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
656792
Tatyana Lebedeva led a Russian 1-2-3 in  the Olympic women's long jump final Friday as Marion Jones of  the United States missed out on a medal.
145739
A Greek athlete loses his medal after testing positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
125188
ATHENS, Greece -- The winner of Wednesday&#39;s women&#39;s shot put has been stripped of her gold medal after failing a drugs test after the competition.
559844
"People's power" stopped a gymnastics  final when judges' scoring destroyed Russian Alexei Nemov's  Olympic medal hopes on Monday, while Briton Kelly Holmes  shattered Maria Mutola's dream of consecutive 800 meters  titles.
645771
Olympic hammer champion Adrian Annus has  been stripped of his gold medal after failing to take a drugs  test, the International Olympic Committee said on Sunday.
388879
(Athens, Greece-AP) Aug. 22, 2004 - The women&#39;s shot gold medal shot put winner from Russia, Irina Korzhanenko, is under investigation after failing a doping control test.
201701
Jason Lezak, fastest man in the world  this year, and Ian Crocker were eliminated in the heats of the  100 meters freestyle on Tuesday, leaving the United States  without an Olympic finalist in the event for the first time,  barring the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games and an open-water duel  between an Austrian and a Hungarian in 1896.
713637
The International Olympic Committee formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals yesterday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat.
93659
Disgraced Olympic shot put championIrina Korzhanenko from Russia has been expelled from the Athens Games after failing a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.
678928
The Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics has failed a drugs test and risks losing his Olympic silver medal, a national Olympic committee spokesman said yesterday, while the Russian 400m
606651
Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis, Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens Olympics, was stripped of his bronze medal and excluded from the Games Sunday for a doping offense, another big blow for the host nation which is welcoming the homecoming
480618
Women's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko of Russia will lose her gold medal after testing  positive for a banned steroid, the head of the Russian Olympic  Committee's anti-doping body said Sunday.