Greek Sprinters Quit Games
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Controversial Greek sprinters and doping suspects Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Olympic Games on Wednesday moments after exiting an IOC inquiry which could have expelled them for missing a mandatory drugs test.
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Disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou finished out of the medal's when she finished sixth in the women's 60m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships here on Sunday.
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team manager offered to quit on Friday, as doping overshadowed Michael Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal winner.
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Greek Olympic 200 meters champion Costas  Kenteris, the focus of an Olympic doping scandal, withdrew from  the Athens Games on Wednesday "out of a sense of  responsibility."
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Greece's two top sprinters could face an  ignominious exit from the Olympics on Monday in a drugs drama  that has shamed and angered Greeks in the spiritual homeland of  the Games.
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The 28th Olympic Games came to an end in Athens, Greece with an exuberant closing ceremony. There was drama up to the last gold medal with a spectator running onto the course of men&#39;s marathon with about 15 minutes to go.
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The last event on the final day of Olympic competition ended in more embarrassment for the Greek organisers yesterday when the leader of the men&#39;s marathon was bundled off the course by a protester.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Athens Games, overshadowing the start of track and field events on the fifth day of competition. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were eliminated from the tennis.
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Terming their explanations for missed drug tests on the eve of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens &quot;unacceptable,&quot; the world governing body of track and field (IAAF) yesterday announced that Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou would be banned
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Thousands of athletes, sports officials and visitors to Athens began leaving the Greek capital Monday in a mass post-Olympic exodus.
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TWO Greek sprinters facing expulsion from the Olympics over missed drug tests left hospital yesterday after four days of treatment for injuries suffered in an unexplained motorbike crash.
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ATHENS, GREECE -- Perhaps attempting to save their country further embarrassment and fearful of an impending ruling from the International Olympic Committee, two Greek sprinters abruptly withdrew from the Olympic Games on Wednesday.
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Former Olympic and world 100m champion Maurice Greene retires from athletics because of injury.
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BEIJING -- Former Olympic sprinter Maurice Greene announced his retirement on Monday.
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Greece&#39;s two top athletes have pulled out of the Athens Olympics and apologised to the Greek people for a scandal over missed dope tests that has tarnished the Games&#39; return to their birthplace.
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Two of Greeks most adored athletes have pulled themselves out of their host country&#39;s Olympics. Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou missed an International Olympic Committee mandatory drug test last week. Thanou and Kenteris were then involved ...
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SHAMED Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris last night denied he faked a motorbike crash to escape a drug test ahead of the Olympics. Sydney 200 metres champ Kenteris and fellow sprint star Katerina Thanou withdrew