Austrian skiers' ban upheld
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Three Austrian cross-country skiers have appeals against lifetime Olympic bans for doping dismissed.
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WENGEN, Switzerland  - Austrian skier Hans Knauss  has been provisionally suspended after a positive B test for  nandrolone, his lawyer Christian Flick said Wednesday.
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German figure skating coach Ingo Steuer   won a temporary injunction on Tuesday against a ban for working   with the East German Stasi security police.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta  - Michaela Dorfmeister put  the Austrian women back on top with the team's first win of the  Alpine ski World Cup season on Sunday, providing the perfect  send-off as the circuit shifts back to Europe.
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The Austrian Ski Federation gave lifetime bans to Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann, both retired biathletes, and the former coaches Emil Hoch and Walter Mayer yesterday because of their involvement with blood doping at the 2006 Turin Olympics.
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2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has doping charges against him upheld by American arbitrators.
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Austria's Stefan Koubek is banned for three months after failing a drugs test.
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By Boris GroendahlVIENNA - A left-right coalition government of Austria's two biggest parties looked like the only viable option on Monday after Social Democrat Alfred Gusenbauer defeated the ruling ...Comment
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ARE, Sweden  - Mario Matt rescued the Austrian men's team in the nick of time on Saturday, winning the men's slalom to give them their first gold medal of the Alpine skiing world championships.
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South American countries will learn if their appeal to overturn a ban on matches played at altitude is successful.
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A European Union court on Wednesday  confirmed it had upheld curbs imposed by the EU's executive on  Microsoft, dismissing the software giant's appeal for a  suspension.
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Austrian Marlies Schild won the women's giant slalom in Semmering on Tuesday to the delight of herhome crowd.
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A spectator ban for the San Siro stadium, home to Serie A teams AC Milan and Inter Milan, was partially lifted following an inspection by government officials on Saturday.
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Italy's highest court upholds a ruling that cleared ex-PM Giulio Andreotti of having colluded with the Mafia.
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Avalanches killed three skiers and critically injured four others Saturday in Austria's Alps, and authorities suspended a search for a missing American snowboarder.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's gold-medal winning ski team produced another winner on Saturday when Michaela Kirchgasser won her first World Cup victory in a giant slalom.
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European Union environment ministers rejected an appeal Monday to force Austria to lift a ban on two biotech crop products, which the European Commission says violates international trade rules.