Greek drug saga ends with athletes pulling out rather than facing expulsion
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After a seven-day saga featuring missed drug tests, a suspicious motorcycle crash and defiant denials, Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Athens Olympics on Wednesday rather than be kicked out.
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Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Olympics on Wednesday after inflicting six days of embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 18, 2004  Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou pulled out of the Athens Games on Wednesday, nearly a week after they missed a drug test and were later hospitalized following a suspicious motorcycle crash.
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Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris insists he is not a drug cheat as he leaves hospital.
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew Wednesday from the Athens Games, nearly a week after they missed a drug test and were later hospitalized following a suspicious motorcycle crash.   "I'm withdrawing from the Olympics," Kenteris said after meeting with the International Olympic Committee's disciplinary commission...
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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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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - A member of the Greek Olympic team has tested positive for a banned substance, this according to a news bulletin released by the Hellenic Olympic Committee on Friday.
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Greece's top two athletes, facing a  state prosecutor's investigation over failed drug tests and a  motorbike crash, left the hospital on Tuesday declaring they  were innocent and should be allowed to compete in the Olympic  Games.
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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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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
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Police completed Wednesday an investigation into the alleged motorcycle accident involving Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, who have pulled out of the Olympics because of a doping scandal.
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The International Olympic Commiteee announced Sunday to expel Greek lifter Leonidas Sampanis out of the Olympic Games and strip him of the bronze medal he won in the men&#39;s 62kg category at the Games after he was tested positive for a banned substance.
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Greek pride was dealt another blow  Friday when one of their athletes failed a drugs test at the  Olympics just 48 hours after its two top sprinters pulled out  of the Games in a doping scandal.
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Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are given provisional bans for missing drugs tests.
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The two Greek sprinters who face an Olympic hearing Wednesday into whether they deliberately missed a drug test last week have been discharged from the Athens hospital where they were treated for minor injuries they sustained in a mysterious motorbike ...
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Two of Greece's most famous athletes and their coach made their first public appearance here yesterday only to withdraw from the Olympic Games rather than face a panel charged with looking into a possible doping violation.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The second medalist at the Olympic Games has tested positive for an illegal drug and been stripped of a medal.