Greek Weightlifting Medal Stripped at Games
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It&#39;s the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping, however, nine weightlifters, including Leonidas Sampanis, have failed drug tests.
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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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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs.
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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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The Greeks have been shamed again at their own Olympics after bronze medal weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was kicked out after failing a dope test.
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The International Olympic Committee has stripped a Greek weightlifter of his bronze medal and expelled him from the Athens Games for a doping offense.
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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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Five weightlifters are suspended Thursday for flunking drug tests they took before the Olympics, including two who were pulled out just before walking to the lifting stand.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal and expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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ATHENS, Greece A Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal. Leonidas Sampanis also has been expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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Athens - Greek athletes have been ordered not to dedicate Olympic medals to disgraced sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who withdrew from the team after a dope-test scandal.
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TUESDAY&#39;S closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympics will be stripped of its artistic and celebratory part in commemmoration of seven Greek schoolchildren killed today in a bus crash on their way to watch a competition, organisers said.
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Milen Dobrev of Bulgaria breezily claimed the gold medal in weightlifting men&#39;s 94kg class as Greece&#39;s Akakios Kakiasvili failed to become the first lifter to win four consecutive Olympic gold here on Monday.
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The closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympics will be stripped of its celebrations after seven Greek schoolchildren were killed in a bus crash on their way to the competition, organisers said on Monday.
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Scandal-ridden Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has revealed that she has withdrawn from the Games. Team-mate and training partner Kostas Kenteris, who also missed a drugs test on the eve of the Games, withdrew this morning.
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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 weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis will find out on Sunday if he is to be stripped of his medal.