5 More Olympic Weightlifters Fail Drug Tests
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International Weightlifting Federation officials have announced the names of five lifters from five different countries who are banned from Athens Olympics competition after failing drug tests.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Nine Iranian weightlifters have tested positive for doping, forcing the national team to withdraw from the upcoming world championships.
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We do not dare to believe that our two champions, Katerina Thanou and Kostas Kenteris, avoided the IOC&#39;s drug test because they were doped.
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Five weightlifters have tested positive for drugs, the IOC announces.
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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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The Indian Olympic Association has banned three female weightlifters and their coach for life after the athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Ukraine have lost the bronze medals they won in the women&#39;s quadruple sculls on Sunday after crew member Olena Olefirenko tested positive for a prohibited stimulant.
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Reports from the Olympics Saturday, say Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens games has twice tested positive for illegal substances, and could lose the bronze medal he won for weightlifting.
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record-setting Hungarian weight lifter was in danger of losing his silver medal yesterday because he failed a drug test, a national Olympic committee spokesman said.
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Drugs cast another shadow over the  Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their  bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred. After  showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the  400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained  about the media's obsession with drugs -- and defended two of  her disgraced compatriots.
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Doping cast its sleazy shadow over the Olympics again when it was announced on Thursday that five weightlifters had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Olympic men's hammer champion Adrian  Annus has been stripped of his gold medal after failing to take  a drug test, an IOC source said on Sunday.
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Five weightlifters are suspended Thursday for flunking drug tests they took before the Olympics, including two who were pulled out just before walking to the lifting stand.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Russian sprinter Anton Galkin has tested positive for a banned substance and was disqualified from the Athens Olympics on Friday.
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The International Olympic Commiteee announced Sunday to expel Greek lifter Leonidas Sampanis out of the Olympic Games and strip him of the bronze medal he won in the men&#39;s 62kg category at the Games after he was tested positive for a banned substance.
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It&#39;s the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping, however, nine weightlifters, including Leonidas Sampanis, have failed drug tests.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The winner of Wednesday&#39;s women&#39;s shot put has been stripped of her gold medal after failing a drugs test after the competition.