Sampanis denies doping
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GREECE&#39;S first Athens medallist Leonidas Sampanis today denied taking banned substances despite testing positive for the male hormone testosterone.
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MELBOURNE, Australia  - Three players at the  center of doping allegations in Belgium -- Russians Svetlana  Kuznetsova and Elena Dementieva and Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy  -- on Sunday denied any knowledge of or involvement in the  scandal.
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Hungarian side Ferencvaros has denied its fans threw missiles at Millwall supporters and officials during Thursday&#39;s UEFA Cup tie, after being charged over the incident by European football&#39;s governing body.
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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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PARIS: The coach of the disgraced Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou said his athletes had nothing to hide after they were handed provisional bans by the IAAF yesterday for missing doping tests.
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ATHENS, Greece A Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal. Leonidas Sampanis also has been expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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World number four Nikolay Davydenko has again denied he has ever been approached to throw a match and questioned claims by some players that they had been offered money to fix results.
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An Oregon massage therapist denied Wednesday that he applied testosterone cream on American sprinter Justin Gatlin, a charge raised by Gatlin's coach during a doping investigation.
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Olympic time-trial champion Tyler Hamilton, captain of Switzerlandâs Phonak cycling team, has denied any wrongdoing after reportedly failing two doping tests in less than a month.
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The head of the Olympic doping lab in Athens rejected the suggestion that human error was to blame for the deterioration of Tyler Hamilton's blood specimen.
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A lawyer for Roger Clemens strongly denies the seven-time Cy Young Award winner used steroids to pump up his body and his pitching statistics.
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The former Hyundai CEO, now the front-runner in South Korea's presidential election, denied involvement Tuesday in a stock manipulation case, accusing his opponents of spreading lies that would not derail his bid for office.
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Youssef Belhadj, accused of masterminding the Madrid train bombings and suspected of claiming the attack in the name of al Qaeda, denied involvement on Friday and said he had no links to the militant group.
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Roger Clemens yesterday contended he never has taken steroids or human growth hormone, contradicting allegations made in the Mitchell Report by a former personal trainer who was warned of potential felony charges if he made false statements to investigators.
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound has rejected criticism that sanctions against athletes who contravene doping regulations are too harsh.
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A footballer denies being in a drug smuggling ring at the opening of his court case in Northampton.
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Disgraced Hungarian discus thrower Robert Fazekas, who was stripped of his gold medal for a doping violation, insists he is not a cheat.