Doping authorities clear Thorpe
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Australian doping authorities have cleared retired swimmer Ian Thorpe of any wrongdoing after completing their investigation into an irregular test result.
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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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ATHENS, Greece - Ian Thorpe won the most anticipated duel at the Olympic pool, taking gold in the 200-meter freestyle Monday night and ensuring that Michael Phelps won't match Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals. Defending Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands got off to a quick start - more than 1 second under world-record pace at the halfway point - but couldn't maintain it...
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Police completed Wednesday an investigation into the alleged motorcycle accident involving Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, who have pulled out of the Olympics because of a doping scandal.
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency received an important validation yesterday in its attempt to punish athletes who were suspected of doping in the Balco steroids scandal but who had not failed a drug test.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on Sunday announced that it will strip Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis of a bronze medal won in the Athens Olympics early in the week after the athlete failed a doping test.
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Australia's greatest ever swimmer Ian Thorpe announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 24 on Tuesday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- A dark cloud over the Games lifted yesterday as Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out rather than face expulsion over a missed drug test.
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Controversial Greek sprinters and doping suspects Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Olympic Games on Wednesday moments after exiting an IOC inquiry which could have expelled them for missing a mandatory drugs test.
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ATHENS -- The final curtain fell Wednesday on a week-long drama that has riveted this nation when Greece&#39;s two top sprinters, swept up in a suspected doping scandal, withdrew from the Summer Olympics and competitions that might have ...
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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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Ian Thorpe became Australia's greatest  Olympian and staked a claim to being the best swimmer of his  generation when he won "the race of the century" at Athens on  Monday.
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Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova is certain she will be cleared of doping allegations.
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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.
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Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are given provisional bans for missing drugs tests.
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A mystery at the center of track and field&#39;s biggest doping scandal has finally been solved. Top track coach Trevor Graham has admitted he was the coach who anonymously sent a syringe of THG to the US Anti
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Two Indian weightlifters were handed life bans by the country&#39;s Olympic committee after the pair were thrown out of the Athens Olympics for doping.