Doping probe rider refuses award
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OLYMPIC show jumper Cian O&#39;Connor has turned down Ireland&#39;s Person of the Year award after his gold-winning horse tested positive for a prohibited substance.
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Sir Alex Fergusonâs request for the Football Association to look at Robin van Persieâs alleged elbow at Kieran Richardson is set to be denied.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis protests his innocence after failing a drugs test during this year's race.
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DALLAS A five (M) million dollar check owed Austin cyclist Lance Armstrong for winning a record sixth straight Tour de France isn&#39;t in the mail.
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Greek Olympics officials say they are unaware of any team member failing a drugs test after media reports that the International Olympic Committee had found a Greek competitor had taken banned substances.
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Olympics officials say they will not give away free tickets in a bid to get spectators into unfilled venues.
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Marion Jones denied the allegations that emerged yesterday from Victor Conte, the man at the centre of the Balco doping scandal, who claimed that he had witnessed her injecting performance-enhancing drugs he supplied.
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Lance Armstrong angrily defends his reputation in the wake of more doping claims by two former team-mates.
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Former Olympic 50m and 100m freestyle gold medal winner Alexander Popov has denied a report in French newspaper L&#39;Equipe that he is set to retire.
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A Dallas company that specializes in  underwriting prize money will not pay a $5 million bonus to  Lance Armstrong until it investigates claims the Tour de France  champion used performance-enhancing drugs.
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2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has doping charges against him upheld by American arbitrators.
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US sprinter Michelle Collins is banned for doping offences despite not failing a drugs test.
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The investigation that shook cycling ended without indictments Monday when the judge said he could not charge anyone because Spain's new doping law was not in place when the case broke last May.
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DENVER -- A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate the discrimination lawsuit brought by former US Olympic Committee drug czar Wade Exum.
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US Olympic officials Friday rejected as âdeplorableâ a suggestion by the International Gymnastics Federation that menâs all-around individual champion Paul Hamm
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PARIS Tyler Hamilton, the plucky American bicycle racer who won an Olympic gold medal in the time trial last month in Athens, denied Tuesday that he had failed a test to detect performance-enhancing blood transfusions.
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Like a cyclist who can't shake his pursuers, the Tour de France continues to be dogged by the cloud of doping. Race leader Michael Rasmussen became the latest rider to face scrutiny Friday when he had to answer why he had been kicked off the national team for failing to report his whereabouts for drug-testing purposes.