Greek judoka passes away
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Eleni Ioannou of Greece, orginally selected to compete judo competition in the Athens Games, passed away early Tuesday morning.
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Greek judoka Eleni Ioannou has died after 17 days of hospitalisation in critical condition following a fall from the third storey of her boyfriend&#39;s apartment.
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A man named as a suspect in the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing of 1996 and later cleared without being charged has died at his home, a Georgia coroner said on Wednesday.
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A Cuban judo player has tested positive for a banned substance at the Athens Paralympics and is being stripped of his gold medal. The International Paralympic Committee said 35-year-old Sergio Arturo Perez
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The final curtain yesterday came down on the Greek tragedy which has overshadowed the first week of the Athens Olympics when the sprinters Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou withdrew from the games.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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Greece declared three days of national mourning Monday for the Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, who died in a helicopter crash.
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Greek teenager Ilias Iliadis swept up the Olympic host country&#39;s second gold medal on Tuesday, winning the men&#39;s judo under 81kg category.
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A GREEK police officer guarding the Athens home of the British military attache has been shot dead in his sentry box and his rifle stolen.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Ilias Iliadis captured Greece&#39;s second gold medal of the 2004 Olympics with a thrilling victory over Roman Gontyuk of the Ukraine in the men&#39;s under 81kg category in judo on Tuesday.
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Olympic wrestling silver medalist Sara McMann has been charged with careless driving causing death following a crash that killed her boyfriend, the Colorado State Patrol said yesterday. Steven Blackford , 28, a three-time NCAA All-American wrestler at Arizona State, died Friday when the Jeep they were in rolled off the shoulder of Interstate 76 in northeastern Colorado. McMann, 23, of ...
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday and expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.    He was the first athlete at the Athens Games to lose his medal because of doping...
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A Greek soldier guarding an Olympic facility in Athens was shot dead Monday after apparently playing game of Russian roulette with a policeman, security sources said.
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ATHENS, Greece - Rulon Gardner was in another Olympic wrestling upset - 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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ATHENSâEgypt&#39;s Patriarch of Alexandria, whose post traces its lineage to one of Christ&#39;s disciples, was killed with his Greek Orthodox retinue yesterday in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities confirmed.
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ATHENS, Greece -- A Greek soldier has been shot dead while on patrol at the Olympic mountain bike course near Athens, a government spokesman said on Monday.
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One man has died and seven have been injured in clashes between Greek and Albanian fans in Greece following the World Cup qualifier game played between the two countries in Tirana, police say.