Olympics: Expulsion backed
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The IOC wants suspended Olympic member Ivan Slavkov to be thrown out of the organisation.
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Athens - Greek athletes have been ordered not to dedicate Olympic medals to disgraced sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who withdrew from the team after a dope-test scandal.
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Iran&#39;s transparent decision to boycott head-to-head competitions against Israeli athletes is an assault on the Olympic ideal. It needs to be dealt with swiftly and sternly. Instead, the International Judo Federation could not find enough executive members ...
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The murder of an Italian journalist in Iraq almost caused a major diplomatic incident at the Olympics. The football teams of the respective nations met in the bronze medal match on Friday, but it emerged after
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ATHENS -- Two of Greece&#39;s most famous athletes and their coach made their first public appearance here yesterday only to withdraw from the Olympic Games rather than face a panel charged with looking into a ...
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Paris 2012 organisers have been accused of breaking Olympic bid rules by using French embassies to promote the city. Madrid 2012 have made an official protest to the International Olympic Committee&#39;s (IOC) ethical commission.
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Hungarian Olympic discus champion Robert  Fazekas lost his title and was expelled from the Athens Games  after breaking doping rules, the International Olympic  Committee (IOC) said Tuesday.
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Experts recommend that the traffic control measures taken during last month&#39;s Olympic Summer Games and the current Paralympics should be kept in Athens permanently, as they
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Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics was stripped of his silver medal and kicked out of the Olympics on Saturday for using steroids. Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca was also expelled for a positive drug test.
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Sept. 6-13 issue - &quot;You are not welcome.&quot; Hundreds of people marching through Athens to protest the scheduled arrival of US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the Olympic Games.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in Athens on August 23 that women&#39;s shot put champion Korzhanenko of Russia has been excluded from the 28th Olympic Games after failing a doping test.
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THE Madrid Olympic bid has suffered a setback because of the racist chanting on Wednesday in the BernabÃ©u stadium, one of the most famous arenas in the world and a proposed venue for the 2012 Games.
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Terming their explanations for missed drug tests on the eve of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens &quot;unacceptable,&quot; the world governing body of track and field (IAAF) yesterday announced that Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou would be banned
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London sent off its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today, calling it a &quot;winning formula&quot; towards snaring the world&#39;s biggest sporting event.
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The International Olympic Committee  finally washed their hands of Costas Kenteris and Katerina  Thanou Wednesday, declaring them out of the Olympic family and  handing the case to world athletics authorities.
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OLYMPIA, Greece  The competition was history. The time had come for everyone to leave, to follow the sun toward that narrow path lined with olive trees out of the stadium, a trek that would take athletes and spectators alike not to a ...
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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.