Greek Weightlifter Stripped of Medal
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.
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Athens - Greek athletes have been ordered not to dedicate Olympic medals to disgraced sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who withdrew from the team after a dope-test scandal.
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ATHENS - Ukrainian rower Olena Olefirenko has failed a drugs test at the Olympics and has been stripped of a bronze medal, the International Olympic Committee has announced.
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A Greek weightlifter loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian shot putter also fails a test.
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The women&#39;s gold medallist in shot put, Irina Korzhanenko, has been disqualified from the Olympics and stripped of her medal after testing positive for doping.
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Disgraced Olympic shot put championIrina Korzhanenko from Russia has been expelled from the Athens Games after failing a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.
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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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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis will find out on Sunday if he is to be stripped of his medal.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs.
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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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Greece was rocked by the threat of being  stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team  manager offered to quit Friday, as doping overshadowed Michael  Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal winner.
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew Wednesday from the Athens Games, nearly a week after they missed a drug test and were later hospitalized following a suspicious motorcycle crash.   "I'm withdrawing from the Olympics," Kenteris said after meeting with the International Olympic Committee's disciplinary commission...
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ATHENS, Greece Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offense. It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Another Olympic medallist has been stripped of a medal after failing a doping test. Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko will lose her shot put gold medal after testing positive for the steroid stanozolol
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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.
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Scandal-ridden Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has revealed that she has withdrawn from the Games. Team-mate and training partner Kostas Kenteris, who also missed a drugs test on the eve of the Games, withdrew this morning.
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The Greeks were shamed again at their own Olympics on Sunday when bronze medal weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was kicked out after failing a dope test.