Greek weightlifter stripped of medal for drugs
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis, Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens Olympics, was stripped of his bronze medal and excluded from the Games Sunday for a doping offense, another big blow for the host nation which is welcoming the homecoming
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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 athlete who failed a doping test is confirmed as a weightlifting bronze medallist.
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ATHENS: Paralympic judo champion Sergio Perez has been stripped of his gold medal after failing a doping test but has escaped a ban.
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Five weightlifters, including India&#39;s Pratima Kumari, were Thursday suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for failing drug tests conducted at the Olympic Games Thursday, reports Xinhua.
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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
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Athens - Two weightlifters from Azerbaidjan have been banned from competitions for life after testing positive for drugs, in the first two doping cases of the Athens Paralympics, officials said here on Wednesday.
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Five weightlifters are suspended after failing drugs tests.
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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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Five weightlifters tested positive for  drugs before the Athens Olympics and were banned from the  Games.
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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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The International Olympic Commiteee announced Sunday to expel Greek lifter Leonidas Sampanis out of the Olympic Games and strip him of the bronze medal he won in the men&#39;s 62kg category at the Games after he was tested positive for a banned substance.
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Olympic men's hammer champion Adrian  Annus has been stripped of his gold medal after failing to take  a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee said Sunday.
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Five weightlifters are suspended Thursday for flunking drug tests they took before the Olympics, including two who were pulled out just before walking to the lifting stand.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Another Olympic medallist has been stripped of a medal after failing a doping test. Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko will lose her shot put gold medal after testing positive for the steroid stanozolol
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A Greek weightlifter loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian shot putter also fails a test.
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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 ...