Greek Weightlifter Stripped of Medal
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.    It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping...
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Drugs cast another shadow over the  Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their  bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred. After  showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the  400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained  about the media's obsession with drugs -- and defended two of  her disgraced compatriots.
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Disgraced Olympic shot put championIrina Korzhanenko from Russia has been expelled from the Athens Games after failing a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.
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Athens - Greek athletes have been ordered not to dedicate Olympic medals to disgraced sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who withdrew from the team after a dope-test scandal.
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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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The Greeks were shamed again at their own Olympics on Sunday when bronze medal weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was kicked out after failing a dope test.
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Russia's shot put champion Irina Korzhaenko is stripped of gold after failing a drugs test.
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Hungary&#39;s Robert Fazekas will be stripped of his discus gold medal and thrown out of the Olympic Games after being caught trying to tamper with a urine sample, an International Olympic Committee source said Tuesday.
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Hungary's Robert Fazekas will be  stripped of his discus gold medal and thrown out of the Olympic  Games after being caught trying to tamper with a urine sample,  an International Olympic Committee source said Tuesday.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis lost his Olympic bronze medal Sunday after tests revealed he had taken a banned substance. Sampanis won his medal in the 62-kilogram weightlifting class last Monday.
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Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics was stripped of his silver medal and kicked out of the Olympics on Saturday for using steroids.
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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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A visually impaired cyclist from Slovakia, competing in the men&#39;s tandem event, was stripped of his silver medal and three weightlifters were slapped with two-year bans after testing positive for banned substances at the Athens
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The second medalist at the Olympic Games has tested positive for an illegal drug and been stripped of a medal.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on Sunday announced that it will strip Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis of a bronze medal won in the Athens Olympics early in the week after the athlete failed a doping test.
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It&#39;s the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping, however, nine weightlifters, including Leonidas Sampanis, have failed drug tests.
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The Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics has failed a drugs test and risks losing his Olympic silver medal, a national Olympic committee spokesman said yesterday, while the Russian 400m