Disgraced sprinters walk away
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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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The IAAF is set to decide how Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou should be punished for missing several drugs tests.
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Former Olympic champion Michael Johnson claims Britain's top sprinters lack pride and ambition.
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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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Disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou finished out of the medal's when she finished sixth in the women's 60m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships here on Sunday.
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Greece&#39;s top two sprinters should finally get to put their case on Wednesday in a drugs investigation that has shamed and angered the Olympic host nation.
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The International Olympic Committee  finally washed their hands of Costas Kenteris and Katerina  Thanou Wednesday, declaring them out of the Olympic family and  handing the case to world athletics authorities.
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Greek national sporting hero Kostas Kenteris and training partner Ekaterini Thanou have withdrawn from the Olympic Games.
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ATHENS -- The Games ended here last night with the last runner of the marathon making his way into Panathinaikos Stadium and the Olympic flame being doused a few hours later.
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The two Greek sprinters who plunged the Olympics into crisis after missing drugs tests today sensationally announced they were pulling out of the Games.
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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 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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When the raucous music was turned down Sunday night and the dancing in the stands had ended, and the eight swaggering and strutting sprinters were finally coiled into their
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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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Sprinters Kenteris and Thanou are withdrawn from the Games, pending a hearing into their missed drugs test.
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Hundreds of thousands of athletes,  officials and visitors waved goodbye to Athens in a  post-Olympics exodus Monday, leaving city officials to probe a  doping scandal that tarnished an otherwise dream Games.
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BEIJING -- Former Olympic sprinter Maurice Greene announced his retirement on Monday.