Greek sprinters quit to end Games scandal
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Greece&#39;s two top athletes have pulled out of the Athens Olympics and apologised to the Greek people for a scandal over missed dope tests that has tarnished the Games&#39; return to their birthplace.
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Greece's top two sprinters should  finally get to put their case on Wednesday in a drugs  investigation that has shamed and angered the Olympic host  nation.
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Greek pride was dealt another blow Friday when one of their athletes failed a drugs test at the Olympics just 48 hours after its two top sprinters pulled out of the Games in a doping scandal.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Athens Games, overshadowing the start of track and field events on the fifth day of competition. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were eliminated from the tennis.
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TWO Greek sprinters facing expulsion from the Olympics over missed drug tests left hospital yesterday after four days of treatment for injuries suffered in an unexplained motorbike crash.
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Sprinters Kenteris and Thanou are withdrawn from the Games, pending a hearing into their missed drugs test.
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Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Olympics Wednesday after inflicting six days of embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team manager offered to quit on Friday, as doping overshadowed Michael Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal winner.
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Greek Olympic 200 meters champion Costas  Kenteris said on Wednesday he was withdrawing from the Athens  Games "out of a sense of responsibility."
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Hundreds of thousands of athletes,  officials and visitors waved goodbye to Athens in a  post-Olympics exodus on Monday, leaving city officials to probe  a doping scandal that tarnished an otherwise dream Games.
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Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou, the sprinters who brought shame on Greece on the eve of the Olympics, are facing the end of their careers after being charged with missing a drug test and faking a motorcycle accident.
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The two Greek sprinters who plunged the Olympics into crisis after missing drugs tests today sensationally announced they were pulling out of the Games.
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Thousands of athletes, sports officials and visitors to Athens began leaving the Greek capital Monday in a mass post-Olympic exodus.
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The 28th Olympic Games came to an end in Athens, Greece with an exuberant closing ceremony. There was drama up to the last gold medal with a spectator running onto the course of men&#39;s marathon with about 15 minutes to go.
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ATHENS, Greece If you followed the Summer Olympics closely, you&#39;ll remember that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters were involved in a doping scandal that embarrassed the host country.
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ATHENS -- Star sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were suspended yesterday from the Greek Olympic team for missing drug tests, but their fate was left in the hands of the International Olympic Committee.
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The disfiguring doping scandal involving Greece&#39;s two leading athletes, Konstadinos Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou, came to a messy conclusion here yesterday, as both jumped before they could be pushed, forfeiting their places in ...