Tour team pulls out in drug scandal
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Kazakh rider Alexandr Vinokourov tested positive after winning Saturday's time-trial in the Tour de France, his Astana team announced today.
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Cycling and track and field yanked their biggest stars off the marquee in a matter of days after they were implicated in doping cases. Now that those sports have turned summer's center stage back over to baseball, can fans still seething over the use of performance-enhancers expect the same kind of accountability?
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GENEVA - Olympic gold medalist TylerHamilton was fired by his cycling team two months after testing positive for blood doping. The Swiss-based International Cycling Union said Tuesday the Phonak team told
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Spain's Iban Mayo is cleared of taking performance-enhancing drugs during the Tour de France.
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Lisbon, Portugal (Sports Network) - Three CD Nacional players had their suspensions lifted following an internal investigation of a nightclub incident.
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The Discovery Channel will drop its sponsorship next year of the professional cycling team that was formerly led by Lance Armstrong, leaving the top United States team scrambling to find a primary sponsor.
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Injured Mark Philippoussis has withdrawn from Australia's Davis Cup team for the World Group playoff against Morocco later this month.
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Cycling, having lived through a prolonged drug binge, is now trying to purge, leaving fans and riders to wonder whether the sport is making progress on getting doping out of its system.
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A popular painkiller is being withdrawn from the market over concerns about links with overdoses.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association wants to prevent the names of current and former major league players from being made public in a case involving performance-enhancing drugs.
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Alexandre Vinokourov tested positive for a banned blood transfusion, prompting his team to pull out of the race.
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Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich retired from cycling Monday amid continuing investigations of his alleged role in a Spanish doping scandal.
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Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was fired by his cycling team two months after testing positive for blood doping. The Swiss-based International Cycling Union, or UCI, said Tuesday
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Merck Labs has pulled Vioxx, their arthritis drug, off the market after discovering during trials the possibility of a link to stroke or heart attack.
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Jan Ullrich was cleared to compete in the Tour de France when organizers decided Tuesday that doping accusations against the star German cyclist were too weak to ask him to withdraw.
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Prosecutors have dropped charges against two University of Memphis basketball players from a dispute outside a nightclub last year.
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CHELSEA enforced a âzero toleranceâ policy against drugs yesterday when they dismissed Adrian Mutu, the Romania striker, for gross misconduct after his positive test for cocaine.