European Press Review: The Doping Games
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European papers celebrated the Athens 2004 Olympics and also had a few words to say about the doping cases that marred the games. &quot;The cynics were wrong,&quot; declared London&#39;s The Independent.
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Disgraced Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have been charged with obstructing a dope test on the eve of August&#39;s Athens Olympics and providing authorities
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European Athletics will press for tougher sanctions against drug cheats in the sport, the continental governing body's president Hansjorg Wirz said here on Thursday.
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Doping cast its sleazy shadow over the Olympics again when it was announced on Thursday that five weightlifters had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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NEW YORK  - Just over 1 percent of eleven-year-olds admit to using drugs to boost their athletic performance, a new study from France shows. Furthermore, four years later, 3 percent said they had used doping agents at least once during the previous month.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - Athletes and officials from athletics' world governing body have called for a return to four-year bans for sportsmen and women who participate in "proven aggravated doping cases".
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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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The doping scandal surrounding the Greek athletes, Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, and their controversial coach Christos Tsekos, intensified yesterday when it was reported that premises
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Today&#39;s mixed bag of a press review covers, among other topics, the acquittal of a terror suspect by a German court, the Russian shot-putter stripped of her gold medal in Athens and a Georgian disco.
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The disfiguring doping scandal involving Greece&#39;s two leading athletes, Konstadinos Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou, came to a messy conclusion here yesterday, as both jumped before they could be pushed, forfeiting their places in ...
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Carl Lewis, who won the Olympic 100 meters in 1988 after Ben Johnson was thrown out for using steroids, said Justin Gatlin and Yuliya Nesterenko&#39;s sprint victories weren&#39;t dimmed by doping scandals that dwindled the fields.
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European countries who do not sign up to anti-doping laws by the end of 2008 should not be allowed to bid for major international sports events such as the Olympics, European Union sports ministers agreed on Thursday.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.  -- Golf finally joined other major sports Thursday when its leading organizations announced an anti-doping policy that will begin in 2008.
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India imposed a life ban on three women weightlifters for doping on Thursday, including a pair thrown out of the Athens Olympics. &quot;We are taking very serious steps to root out doping from this country.
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Golf begrudgingly joined the new world of sport yesterday when leaders from its most influential organizations signed off on an anti-doping policy with hopes of proving its players are clean.
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ATHENS : Greek sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou are to be investigated by the world governing body of athletics and face being charged with a doping offence, it was announced.
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UK Athletics (UKA) on Thursday launched a review of its anti-doping policy that could result in athletes who are caught using performance-enhancing drugs being banned from representing Great Britain for life.