Athletics: Eight-year ban given to Collins for &#39;pattern of doping&#39;
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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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Bee Staff Writer. Sprinter Michelle Collins received an eight-year suspension for doping violations related to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal, the US Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday.
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The fate of American sprinter Michelle Collins, who has been charged with doping violations, will be decided next week. Collins, last year&#39;s world indoor 400metres champion, has been implicated in the BALCO
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US Olympic 400m relay gold medallist Alvin Harrison has accepted a four-year ban for drugs offences, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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The world governing body for athletics will consider lowering from three to two the number of drug test no-shows before an athlete is considered to have committed a doping offense.
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Athens - Two weightlifters from Azerbaidjan have been banned from competitions for life after testing positive for drugs, in the first two doping cases of the Athens Paralympics, officials said here on Wednesday.
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Sprinter Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years for a doping violation linked to the BALCO scandal and will forfeit results that include 2003 indoor world and U.S. titles in the 200 meters.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 30, 2004 - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.    Cornelius Horan was convicted by a misdemeanor court of violating Greece's laws on extracurricular sports for knocking Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd on Sunday...
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency received an important validation when Michelle Collins, 33, received an eight-year suspension on Friday.
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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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Soccer players and other sportsmen could  soon face mandatory two-year bans from their sports if they are  caught using recreational drugs at any time, the head of the  World Anti-Doping Agency said Monday.
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A statement on the IAAF website said the governing body&#39;s Doping Review Board had conducted an extensive three-month inquiry and had concluded that evidence exists that the three committed doping violations.
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India imposed a life ban on three women weightlifters for doping on Thursday, including a pair thrown out of the Athens Olympics. &quot;We are taking very serious steps to root out doping from this country.
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American sprinter Michelle Collins has been hit with an eight-year suspension for using a cocktail of banned drugs EPO, testosterone and the designer steroid THG.
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Olympic relay gold medalist and world 400-meter champion Jerome Young was given a lifetime ban from the US Anti-Doping Agency for his second performance-enhancing drug violation, according to USA Today.
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Martina Hingis was banned for two years Friday for testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon last year.