World 100m Champion Torri Edwards Banned from Games
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World 100 meters champion Torri Edwards  will miss the Athens Olympics after her appeal against a  two-year drugs ban was dismissed Tuesday.
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South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius, who runs with carbon fiber blades attached to his legs, will not be allowed to compete at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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International Olympic Association president Jacques Rogge says any athlete caught doping will be barred from the next Olympics.
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Jerome Young, the world 400 metres champion, has been banned for life, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced last night. The Texan-based sprinter tested positive for the blood-boosting drug erythropoietin
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Sprinter Jerome Young was banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday following the former 400-metre world champion&#39;s second positive test for an illegal steroid.
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Greek national sporting hero Kostas Kenteris and training partner Ekaterini Thanou have withdrawn from the Olympic Games.
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Sprinter Jerome Young, a central figure in a doping case that could cost the U.S. relay team its gold medal from Sydney, was banned for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday following his second positive test for a banned drug.
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The Indian Olympic Association has banned three female weightlifters and their coach for life after the athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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US sprinter Michelle Collins is banned for doping offences despite not failing a drugs test.
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The International Olympic Association head says any athlete caught doping will be barred from the next games.
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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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World 100 meters champion Torri Edwards  will miss the Athens Olympics after her appeal against a  two-year drugs ban was dismissed on Tuesday, a source told  Reuters.
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Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin receives a four-year ban for doping, says the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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ATHENS, Greece - U.S. sprinter Torri Edwards was knocked out of the Olympics for good Tuesday when an arbitration panel upheld her two-year drug suspension, rejecting her arguments that she took a banned stimulant by accident...
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BERNE, Switzerland  - Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has been banned from next month's world championships because of his possible implication in the Operation Puerto doping investigation.
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Track and field athletes with a first doping offense should be banned for life from the Olympics and all other top-level meets, says former two-time Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Coe.
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ATHENS - US sprinter Torri Edwards was knocked out of the Olym- pics for good yesterday when an arbitration panel upheld her two-year drug suspension, rejecting arguments she took banned stimulants by accident.