Olympic athletes 'were asthmatic'
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Some of Britain's Olympic athletes were diagnosed with asthma just weeks before this summer's games, say experts.
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The sound you just heard was the other shoe dropping. The noise you detected was that of hearts of the hopeful breaking. Who wants to believe that a massive doping scandal has taken place in several sports?
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday and expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.    He was the first athlete at the Athens Games to lose his medal because of doping...
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Two positive drug tests and Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi playing as if they were on tranquilisers. India had a nightmare day at the Olympics today.
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Horrible, terrible, embarrassing. Those are the best words to describe the way Team USA has performed in the 2004 Olympic games. The team of ringers has been
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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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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Choking pollution and sapping heat will be the major concerns for the world's elite marathon runners at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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NEW YORK Sprinters, weight-lifters and other athletes who push themselves to the limit of exertion are familiar with muscle fatigue, and many of them blame that sore, sluggish feeling on lactic acid.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive for drugs, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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ATHENS -- On the day the world track federation (IAAF) opened an investigation into alleged drug violations by two Greek sprinters and their coach, IAAF Doping Commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist said the organization had long been unhappy with Greece's approach to anti-doping rules.
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LONDON - Exposure to fumes emitted by cleaning products in the home could cause asthma in children, a study published Thursday shows.
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Years of ignoring or downplaying steroid use among athletes have come back to haunt baseball and Olympics officials. By STEVE WILSTEIN.
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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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The Hungarian gold medalist in the men's discus and a high jumper from Belarus are under investigation by the IOC for doping violations.
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We do not dare to believe that our two champions, Katerina Thanou and Kostas Kenteris, avoided the IOC&#39;s drug test because they were doped.
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International Weightlifting Federation officials have announced the names of five lifters from five different countries who are banned from Athens Olympics competition after failing drug tests.
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Reports from the Olympics Saturday, say Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens games has twice tested positive for illegal substances, and could lose the bronze medal he won for weightlifting.