Doping Weighs Heavily on Weightlifters
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Staged in a grand theater in the land of  mythical strongmen Hercules and Atlas, the Athens Olympics were  supposed to herald a rebirth for the sport of weightlifting.
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Five weightlifters have tested positive for drugs, the IOC announces.
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Some contestants in the largest annual celebration of bodybuilding starting on Friday will likely be on steroids, highlighting how hard it is to keep performance-enhancing drugs out of sport, Arnold Schwarzenegger said of the contest that bears his name.
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Five weightlifters were banned from the Olympics after failing drugs tests, officials said on Thursday, as doping scandals continued to dominate the first week of the Games.
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The Hungarian gold medalist in the men's discus and a high jumper from Belarus are under investigation by the IOC for doping violations.
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Despite millions of dollars in research over the last decade, anti-doping authorities are uncertain if they will be able to deter use of HGH at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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VICTOR CONTE, himself facing federal charges for selling steroids illegally, said today that doping was rife in elite sports from Olympic athletics to American football and baseball, specifically pointing the finger at US sprint stars Marion Jones and Tim
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.    It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping...
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Apparently, they&#39;re going to keep testing Olympic weightlifters until all the cheaters are gone. Or maybe until the sport itself is gone from the games.
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Five weightlifters tested positive for  drugs before the Athens Olympics and were banned from the  Games.
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Weightlifting&#39;s aggressive pursuit of drug cheaters will continue even if it jeopardizes its future in the Olympics, its top official said yesterday following six more positive doping cases in what is again becoming the Games&#39; dirtiest sport. Five ...
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The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has named the five who failed drugs tests before the Athens Olympics.
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ATHENS : Weightlifting was reeling from the latest crisis to hit the perennially drug-tainted sport here as six more athletes were kicked out of the Olympics for failing dope tests.
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Another American champion was hit with a shocking positive drug test Saturday &#151; Olympic and world 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin. Gatlin said he has been informed that he tested positive for testosterone or other prohibited steroids &#151; the same violation that, only two days ago, threw Floyd Landis' victory in the Tour de France into question.
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Doping scandals have cost the Swiss cycling team, Phonak, a place on next yearâs ProTour circuit, which includes the world&#39;s biggest cycling events.
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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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New drugs that are currently in clinical trials for muscle-wasting diseases could become the next big thing for athletes.