Greek sprinters edge closer to oblivion after IAAF move
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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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ATHENS, Greece - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou pulled out of the Athens Games on Wednesday, 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 - Host nation Greece, already embarrassed by two sprinters who dropped out of the Games after missing a drug test, received another black eye when bronze-winning weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for excessive ...
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Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have arrived at an Athens hotel for an International Olympic Committee (IOC) hearing into their missed doped tests, a saga that has shamed and angered the Olympic host ...
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Track's governing body begins investigating Thursday whether two Greek sprinters who withdrew from the Olympics had tried repeatedly to avoid doping testers.
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Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou's missed drugs tests will be investigated by the IAAF.
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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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The International Olympic Committee  finally washed their hands of Costas Kenteris and Katerina  Thanou Wednesday, declaring them out of the Olympic family and  handing the case to world athletics authorities.
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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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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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ATHENS -- Star sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were suspended yesterday from the Greek Olympic team for missing drug tests, but their fate was left in the hands of the International Olympic Committee.
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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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Disgraced former sprint stars Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were yesterday banned by international athletics officials from taking part in any competition, pending a ruling by Greek sports authorities on charges that the two runners dodged doping
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Two of Greeks most adored athletes have pulled themselves out of their host country&#39;s Olympics. Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou missed an International Olympic Committee mandatory drug test last week. Thanou and Kenteris were then involved ...
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MARK COLVIN: The fastest man and woman in Greek athletics are tonight out of the Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have both withdrawn from the Games after an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing on their failure to turn up for ...
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News that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters have withdrawn from the Athens Olympics over missed dope tests has swept through the crowd gathered at the home of the ancient Games to watch the shot put.
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KOSTANTINOS Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, the Greek sprinters, were provisionally suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world governing body, yesterday