Greek Sprinters Quit Games
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Controversial Greek sprinters and doping suspects Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Olympic Games on Wednesday moments after exiting an IOC inquiry which could have expelled them for missing a mandatory drugs test.
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Scandal-ridden Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has revealed that she has withdrawn from the Games. Team-mate and training partner Kostas Kenteris, who also missed a drugs test on the eve of the Games, withdrew this morning.
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SHAMED Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew from their home Games after a meeting with the International Olympic Committee last night.
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After a seven-day saga featuring missed drug tests, a suspicious motorcycle crash and defiant denials, Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Athens Olympics on Wednesday rather than be kicked out.
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News that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters have withdrawn from the Athens Olympics over missed dope tests has swept through the crowd gathered at the home of the ancient Games to watch the shot put.
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Five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe quits competitive swimming at the age of 24.
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Thousands of athletes, sports officials and visitors to Athens began leaving the Greek capital Monday in a mass post-Olympic exodus.
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Track and field&#39;s world governing body temporarily suspended Greek sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou on Wednesday pending a full hearing of their doping cases.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Olympics today after inflicting six days of embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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Two of Greece's most famous athletes and their coach made their first public appearance here yesterday only to withdraw from the Olympic Games rather than face a panel charged with looking into a possible doping violation.
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Disgraced former sprint stars Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were yesterday banned by international athletics officials from taking part in any competition, pending a ruling by Greek sports authorities on charges that the two runners dodged doping
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ATHENS - On a day on which both Greece and the Olympics celebrated themselves by returning the Games to their ancient home in Olympia, two popular Greek athletes withdrew from the track and field competition amid a scandal befitting that ...
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew Wednesday from the Athens Games, nearly a week after they missed a drug test and were later hospitalized following a suspicious motorcycle crash.   "I'm withdrawing from the Olympics," Kenteris said after meeting with the International Olympic Committee's disciplinary commission...
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The Greek sprinters Kostantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou  facing sanctions after missing drugs tests  quit the Games yesterday to avoid the humiliation of being thrown out by the IOC.
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Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, who carried the hopes of their native Greece upon them, have withdrawn from the Summer Games amid a torrent of speculation and potential scandal.
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ATHENS -- It was a long goodbye almost a week in the making, but Greece&#39;s troubled star sprinters have finally left the Olympic building.
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Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, and their former coach Christos Tzekos, have been charged with doping offences by the International Association of Athletics Federations.