Greek sprinter Kenteris quits Games
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Greek Olympic 200 metres champion Costas Kenteris and his fellow Greek Olympic silver medallist Katerina Thanou say they are withdrawing from the Athens Games.
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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 -- 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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Olympic champion Kostas Kenteris, who is likely to be expelled from the Olympics for missing a doping test, said Tuesday that he is not a drugs cheat.
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PARIS  - Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were handed provisional bans for missing doping tests by the IAAF.
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A Greek athlete has failed a dope test at the Olympics, said a spokesman for the country Olympic team.
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SHAMED Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris last night denied he faked a motorbike crash to escape a drug test ahead of the Olympics. Sydney 200 metres champ Kenteris and fellow sprint star Katerina Thanou withdrew
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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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Greek sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are charged for skipping drug test prior to the Athens Games. They are also charged for faking a motorcycle accident, China Radio International reported Friday.
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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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Iran's Arash Miresmaili withdraws from the Olympics amid confusion over his reasons.
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Former Olympic and world 100m champion Maurice Greene retires from athletics because of injury.
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Greece's top two sprinters pulled out of  the Olympics on Wednesday after inflicting six days of  embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest  with anti-doping enforcers.
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ATHENS, GREECE -- Perhaps attempting to save their country further embarrassment and fearful of an impending ruling from the International Olympic Committee, two Greek sprinters abruptly withdrew from the Olympic Games on Wednesday.
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In contrast to their meteoric rise, the former Olympic 200 metres champion, Kostandinos Kenteris, and the 100m silver medallist, Ekatherini Thanou, are fading slowly before being sucked into the black hole of sporting oblivion.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal and expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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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.