Sports:Greek weightlifter stripped of medal
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ATHENS, Greece Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offense. It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping.
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Five weightlifters tested positive for  drugs before the Athens Olympics and were banned from the  Games.
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The Ukrainian four-woman rowing team is stripped of its bronze medal Thursday after one member tests positive for a banned drug.
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Hungarian hammer thrower Adrian Annus has appealed against the removal of his Olympic gold medal. Annus was stripped of his title after failing to submit to a follow-up drugs test in Athens last month.
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ATHENS - Ukrainian rower Olena Olefirenko has failed a drugs test at the Olympics and has been stripped of a bronze medal, the International Olympic Committee has announced.
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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.
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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of these games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.
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Greek Olympic 200 metre champion Costas Kenteris, the focus of an Olympic doping scandal, has withdrawn from the Athens Games &quot;out of a sense of responsibility&quot;.
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The women&#39;s gold medallist in shot put, Irina Korzhanenko, has been disqualified from the Olympics and stripped of her medal after testing positive for doping.
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Russian shot-putter Irina Korzhanenko, who won the women&#39;s event at the Athens Olympics, has been stripped of her gold medal for failing a drugs test.
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ATHENS - Host nation Greece, already embarrassed by two sprinters who dropped out of the Games after missing a drug test, received another black eye when bronze-winning weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for excessive ...
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A cyclist and two weightlifters were stripped of their medals at the Athens Paralympics because of failed drug tests, officials said Sunday.
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A Greek athlete has failed a dope test at the Olympics, said a spokesman for the country Olympic team.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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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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Olympic men's hammer champion Adrian  Annus has been stripped of his gold medal after failing to take  a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee said Sunday.