Tunisian Swimmer Loses World Medals for Doping
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Tunisian swimmer Oussama Mellouli is banned for 18 months Tuesday for a doping violation and stripped of the gold and silver medals he won at the world championships.
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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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US Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, was forced to withdraw from competition at the Short Course World Swimming Championships in Indianapolis because of back pain.
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Four-time Olympic gold medallist Alexander Popov of Russia has retired from swimming, French sports daily L&#39;Equipe reported Thursday.
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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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Ukrainian rower Olena Olefirenko has failed a drugs test and has been stripped of a bronze medal, the International Olympic Committee announced this morning.
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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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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs.
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Hungary&#39;s Olympic discus champion Robert Fazekas has been stripped of his gold medal after being caught trying to switch his urine sample during a mandatory drugs test, an International Olympic Committee source confirmed today.
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Olympic 100 meters freestyle champion  Pieter van den Hoogenband and world champion Alexander Popov  were both eliminated in the heats of the men's 50 meters  freestyle in a major shock in the Olympic swimming pool on  Thursday.
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South Africa ruined Michael Phelps's  dream of winning a record eight gold medals in a dramatic and  controversial day of swimming at the Athens Olympics on Sunday.
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A Greek weightlifter loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian shot putter also fails a test.
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The athlete who failed a doping test is confirmed as a weightlifting bronze medallist.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic sprint medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou withdrew from the Athens Games, overshadowing the fifth day of competition in which Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe will compete for his third gold.
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The International Olympic Committee has stripped a Greek weightlifter of his bronze medal and expelled him from the Athens Games for a doping offense.
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Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.
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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.