Dope and Kenteris hold focus
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A weightlifting drugs scandal and yet another twist to the saga of disgraced Greek sprinter Kostadinos Kenteris dominated the Olympics on Thursday as China extended their lead at the top of the medal table.
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ATHENS: Among the many honours showered on Olympic champion Kostas Kenteris were lucrative sponsorship deals and streets named after him, as well as a high-speed ferry carrying his name.
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Thursday was the night every Greek had marked down in their diary weeks and months ago. It was the night Kostas Kenteris was supposed to successfully defend his 200m crown in front of his adoring public.
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Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris said he was thrilled by the boos that greeted his absence from the 200m final. Kenteris, who won gold at the distance in Sydney, pulled out of the Athens Games after missing a drugs test in unexplained circumstances.
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ATHENS : Greek sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are to face charges for missing a mandatory doping test and faking a motorbike crash to keep testers at bay on the eve of the Athens Olympics, legal sources revealed.
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Take a peek at some of the moves the pros are making.
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Athletics&#39;drugs chief Arne Ljungqvist has admitted the cases of humiliated Greek sprint duo Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou will not be completed until well after the Olympic Games have finished.
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Kostas Kenteris testifies in Athens in connection with the doping affair that led to his departure from the Olympics.
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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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The doping scandal surrounding the Greek athletes, Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, and their controversial coach Christos Tsekos, intensified yesterday when it was reported that premises
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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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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its  soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael  Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the  Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke. The  Olympics started its eighth day with 32 gold medals up for  grabs in what has been dubbed ~Super Saturday.~
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And so it has come to this for the United States&#39; men&#39;s basketball team: It is happy with a grind-it-out victory over Greece, a nation that certainly knows pita but not pick and rolls. What did we learn from Tuesday night&#39;s 77-71 victory over our hosts ...
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The fastest knee in the world has jerked, and given a reaction. In a predictable retort to BALCO, steroid distributor Victor Conteâs statement that Marion Jones used dope even before the Sydney Olympics
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European champions Greece have proved that the US National Basketball Association players still have some work to do before they can claim they are the best in the world.
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Track and field&#39;s world governing body temporarily suspended Greek sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou on Wednesday pending a full hearing of their doping cases.
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Greece&#39;s Olympic 200 metres champion Kostadinos Kenteris, who faces expulsion from the Athens Olympics for failing to show up at a doping test, insisted Tuesday he is not a drugs cheat.