Korzhanenko Still Refusing to Return Gold Medal
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Russia's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko, stripped of her gold medal after a drugs test,  said Tuesday she was determined to keep her medal because she  is innocent.
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ATHENS, Greece - 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.    Korzhanenko, 30, the first woman to win a gold medal at the sacred site of Ancient Olympia, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after Wednesday's competition...
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ATHENS: Irina Korzhanenko of Russia lost her shot put gold medal on Monday and was expelled from the Athens Games for doping, ruining her historic victory at Ancient Olympia.
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The ruling body of gymnastics (FIG)  denied Saturday putting pressure on all-round champion Paul  Hamm to hand over his gold medal to South Korea's Yang  Tae-young, saying the decision should be left to the American.
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Svetlana Khorkina, who was second to American Carly Patterson in the women&#39;s all-around gymnastics competition, has accused the judges of robbing her of the gold medal and said &quot;everything was decided in advance.
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(New York-WABC, September 28, 2004) - Overall Olympic gymnastics champion Paul Hamm has made his case to keep his gold medal. Hamm testified to the court for arbitration of sport and why he thinks he should
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Olympic all-round champion Paul Hamm  said on Monday he would return his gold medal if the Court of  Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rules a judging error denied South  Korea's Yang Tae-young the title.
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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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Tyler Hamilton will keep his Olympic cycling gold medal because a backup drug test was inconclusive, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
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Paul Hamm definitely doesn&#39;t think he should have to give up his gold medal. He&#39;s not even into the idea of sharing it. &quot;I personally feel, at this time, that I am the Olympic
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Alexander Popov has denied he is retiring, refuting a French newspaper report that the four-time Olympic champion is calling it quits.
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Alexander Popov, twice a double-sprint freestyle Olympic gold medalist, said Thursday it was unlikely that he would compete again.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after testing positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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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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The woman who claimed the gold all of Canada thought would be Perdita Felicien&#39;s said the hurdler might not have been wearing gold even if she hadn&#39;t fallen.
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Double Olympic snowboarding silver medalist Danny Kass has not given up hope of adding gold to his medal collection.
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Milen Dobrev of Bulgaria breezily claimed the gold medal in weightlifting men&#39;s 94kg class as Greece&#39;s Akakios Kakiasvili failed to become the first lifter to win four consecutive Olympic gold here on Monday.