Athletics: Steroid cheat thwarts Kiwi Valerie Adams
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The disqualification of women&#39;s Olympic shot-put champion Irina Korzhanenko came too late for New Zealand&#39;s Valerie Adams.
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Women's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko of Russia will lose her gold medal after testing  positive for a banned steroid, the head of the Russian Olympic  Committee's anti-doping body said Sunday.
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Sports scientists have discovered a  second, highly sophisticated steroid especially designed to  evade drug-testers, anti-doping officials said on Tuesday.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - U.S. athletics coaches whose athletes are sanctioned for doping will be penalised themselves under a revised USA Track and Field policy, the national governing body announced on Thursday.
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(Athens, Greece-AP) Aug. 22, 2004 - The women&#39;s shot gold medal shot put winner from Russia, Irina Korzhanenko, is under investigation after failing a doping control test.
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Bee Staff Writer. Sprinter Michelle Collins received an eight-year suspension for doping violations related to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal, the US Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday.
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NEW YORK, USA -- Track and field superstar Marion Jones used banned performance enhancing substances, laboratory chief Victor Conte alleged in an American TV interview aired on Friday night.
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PARIS  - Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were handed provisional bans for missing doping tests by the IAAF.
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Sport: Athletics: Another British medal hope for world championships disappears with triple jumper's injury.
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Sprinter Michelle Collins has been suspended for eight years for abusing steroids, and will have to forfeit trophies that include 2003 world and US titles in the indoor 200 meters.
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound says that if US sprinter Marion Jones has taken banned substances she should be stripped of all her medals regardless of when she won them.
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- An equestrian doping scandal could cost Ireland its only gold medal from the Athens Olympics. Cian O&#39;Connor won the individual show jumping gold aboard Waterford Crystal, but the horse was
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The decision by the US Anti-Doping Agency comes after the Fort Worth runner&#39;s second positive test for an illegal steroid. The former 400-meter world champion tested positive for the banned drug EPO at a meet in July.
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Years of ignoring or downplaying steroid use among athletes have come back to haunt baseball and Olympics officials. By STEVE WILSTEIN.
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ATHENS, Greece - 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.    Korzhanenko, 30, the first woman to win a gold medal at the sacred site of Ancient Olympia, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after Wednesday's competition...
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Rulon Gardner was in another Olympic wrestling upset &#151; his own. One of the biggest stars of the 2000 Summer Games, Gardner was thrown to the mat in overtime Wednesday by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and lost 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal match.
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ATHENS -- So this is how this strange and sour saga ends, with the Queen of Sydney playing Blind Woman's Bluff in the middle of the sprint relay. A blown baton exchange with Lauryn Williams, a fifth place in the long jump, and Marion Jones's trip to Olympus was over. Just like that. A record five medals in 2000, none ...