IAAF advise two-year ban for Greek pair
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The International Association of Athletics Federations is expected to announce today that the Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have been suspended over doping charges arising from the Athens Olympic Games.
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Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, and their former coach Christos Tzekos, have been charged with doping offences by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
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Track and field athletes with a first doping offense should be banned for life from the Olympics and all other top-level meets, says former two-time Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Coe.
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The Greek sprinters Kostadinos Kederis and Ekaterina Thanou face possible jail sentences after being charged with avoiding a drug test on the eve of this summer&#39;s Olympics and faking a motorcycle accident several hours later.
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Austrian skier Hans Knauss was temporarily suspended Wednesday for steroid use and could be banned for two years.
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Disgraced former sprint stars Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were yesterday banned by international athletics officials from taking part in any competition, pending a ruling by Greek sports authorities on charges that the two runners dodged doping
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Former world number one Martina Hingis, who retired from tennis in November after testing positive for cocaine, was banned for two years on Friday after an independent tribunal confirmed the doping offence.
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.    Cornelius Horan was convicted by a misdemeanor court of violating Greece's laws on extracurricular sports for knocking Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd on Sunday...
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A disciplinary hearing into missed dope  tests by Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou  was considering a request on Monday for a two-day postponement  so the athletes could appear in person.
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Two of Greeks most adored athletes have pulled themselves out of their host country&#39;s Olympics. Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou missed an International Olympic Committee mandatory drug test last week. Thanou and Kenteris were then involved ...
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Sprinter Justin Gatlin received an eight-year ban from track and field Tuesday, avoiding a lifetime penalty in exchange for his cooperation with doping authorities and because an earlier positive drug test was deemed an honest mistake.
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Oscar Pistorius saidhe will appeal 'âat the highest levelsâ' if the IAAF bars him from competing in the Beijing Olympics on grounds that his prosthetics give him an unfair edge.
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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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The French Anti-Doping Agency will rule Thursday whether to ban Floyd Landis from racing in France for up to two years after his positive doping test at the 2006 Tour de France.
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Greece's two top sprinters could face an  ignominious exit from the Olympics on Monday in a drugs drama  that has shamed and angered Greeks in the spiritual homeland of  the Games.
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ATHENS, Greece  - A Greek court Monday gave a  former Irish priest a suspended 12-month jail sentence and a  $3,600 fine for pushing a leading Olympic marathon runner off  the road, a court source said.
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Two top Greek athletes will today learn if they will be banned from competing in the Olympics following a drugs scandal.