Greek Weightlifting Medalist Expelled From Olympics for Drugs
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was kicked out of the Olympics and stripped of his bronze medal in the 62-kilogram class after drug tests found his testosterone levels were twice as high as allowed.
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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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ATHENS : Weightlifting was reeling from the latest crisis to hit the perennially drug-tainted sport here as six more athletes were kicked out of the Olympics for failing dope tests.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis has been charged with intentionally taking performance-enhancing drugs at the Athens Olympics, a judicial source said on Monday.
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Greece's top two sprinters pulled out of  the Olympic Games Wednesday after inflicting six days of  embarrassment on their country in a hide-and-seek contest with  anti-doping enforcers.
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Greek pride was dealt another blow  Friday when one of their athletes failed a drugs test at the  Olympics just 48 hours after its two top sprinters pulled out  of the Games in a doping scandal.
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The Greek sprinters at the center of a drug scandal withdraw from the Summer Games but still face possible sanctions for missing several mandatory drug tests.
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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.
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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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In another embarrassing incident for the Olympic host nation, a Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offence.
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Greece's two top sprinters pulled out of  the Athens Games on Wednesday and apologized over a drugs drama  that besmirched the spiritual homeland of the Olympics.
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Hungarian Olympic discus champion Robert  Fazekas lost his title and was expelled from the Athens Games  after breaking doping rules, the International Olympic  Committee (IOC) said Tuesday.
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An unnamed Greek Olympic athlete has failed a drugs test, a spokesman for the host country&#39;s team said today.
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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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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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Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics was stripped of his silver medal and kicked out of the Olympics on Saturday for using steroids.
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Five weightlifters were banned from the Olympics after failing drugs tests, officials said on Thursday, as doping scandals continued to dominate the first week of the Games.