Discus Champion Thrown Out of Games
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Hungarian Olympic discus champion Robert Fazekas will lose his gold medal and be expelled from the Games after breaking doping rules, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Tuesday.
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SHAMED Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew from their home Games after a meeting with the International Olympic Committee last night.
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The Greek sprinters Kostantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou  facing sanctions after missing drugs tests  quit the Games yesterday to avoid the humiliation of being thrown out by the IOC.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in Athens on August 23 that women&#39;s shot put champion Korzhanenko of Russia has been excluded from the 28th Olympic Games after failing a doping test.
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Michael Phelps yesterday pulled out of the 400 metres individual medley at the short course world championships in Indianapolis with a sore back.
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Greek Olympic 200 metre champion Costas Kenteris, the focus of an Olympic doping scandal, has withdrawn from the Athens Games &quot;out of a sense of responsibility&quot;.
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Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.
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Hungary's Robert Fazekas will be  stripped of his discus gold medal and thrown out of the Olympic  Games after being caught trying to tamper with a urine sample,  an International Olympic Committee source said Tuesday.
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A Greek weightlifter loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian shot putter also fails a test.
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THE GAZETTE. Track and field star Marion Jones should give up her five medals won at the 2000 Olympic Games if new accusations that she used illegal performance-enhancing drugs are proved
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In another embarrassing incident for the Olympic host nation, a Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offence.
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Michael Phelps has been forced to pulled out of the 400m individual medley at the Short Course World Swimming Championships in Indianapolis in the US, due to a sore back.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs.
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Hungarian weightlifting silver medalist Ferenc Gyurkovics and Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca were expelled from the games Saturday after testing positive for steroids, the International Olympic Committee said.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after testing positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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Jose Jimenez, who threw a no-hitter as a rookie with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1999, was one of two Dominican athletes removed from the Pan American Games on Saturday after they tested positive for banned substances.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.