Perez suspended for banned stimulant
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Detroit Tigers infielder Neifi Perez was suspended 25 games Friday, the first player penalized for testing positive for a stimulant under Major League Baseball's drug program.
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The former world champion pole-vaulter Giuseppe Gibilisco was barred for two years yesterday for his alleged role in the Oil for Drugs case.Gibilisco and several other athletes have been linked in the case to an Italian doctor who allegedly supplied doping products.Gibilisco won the world title in 2003 and Olympic bronze in 2004.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Former world indoor 200  meters champion Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years  after she was found her guilty of doping charges in connection  with the BALCO scandal, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)  said on Friday.
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Madrid, Spain (Sports Network) - Villarreal midfielder Marcos Senna was suspended Thursday by UEFA after failing a drug test back in August.
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Former Chelsea football striker Adrian Mutu has been banned for seven months after being found guilty of taking cocaine. He was also fined nearly $37,000 and will be subject to drug testing throughout the suspension.
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Olympic gold medallist Tyler Hamilton,   whose two-year suspension for blood doping ends this month, is   to be investigated for alleged links to the Spanish doping   scandal dubbed "Operation Puerto."
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Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu was suspended for seven months and fined about &#36;35,000 by the English Football Association on Thursday after testing positive for cocaine.
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Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco was suspended for the rest of the season and fined yesterday for throwing a chair that hit a woman and broke her nose during a game in Oakland earlier this week.
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Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich was suspended by his racing team Friday amid a doping scandal in Spain, forcing him out of cycling&#039;s premier race. Oscar Sevilla, Ullrich&#039;s teammate, also was suspended by the T-Mobile team.
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American sprinter Michelle Collins has been hit with an eight-year suspension for using a cocktail of banned drugs EPO, testosterone and the designer steroid THG.
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency received an important validation when Michelle Collins, 33, received an eight-year suspension on Friday.
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ATHENS (CP) - Canadian sprinter Earle Connor has been suspended from the Canadian Paralympic team pending the final review of his positive drug test by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
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Houston Astros minor league player Carlos Lazu was suspended for 50 games on Friday after testing positive for an undisclosed performance-enhancing substance.
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LONDON -- Stefan Koubek of Austria was suspended for three months by the International Tennis Federation on Wednesday for failing a drug test at the French Open.
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Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton faces a ban after failing a test for blood doping.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - U.S. sprinter Mickey  Grimes has been suspended for two years after testing positive  for the anabolic steroid norandrosterone, the U.S. Anti-Doping  Agency (USADA) said on Friday.
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LONDON -- Martina Hingis was banned for two years Friday for testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon last year.