Exit Greek Sprinters, Bearing Off Shame
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Greece's top two sprinters pulled out of  the Olympic Games Wednesday after inflicting six days of  embarrassment on their country in a hide-and-seek contest with  anti-doping enforcers.
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The curtain finally fell on Greece&#39;s two-month sporting spectacle, with a low-key but emotional closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
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Greece's top two sprinters should  finally get to put their case on Wednesday in a drugs  investigation that has shamed and angered the Olympic host  nation.
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Greece's top two sprinters pulled out of  the Olympics on Wednesday after inflicting six days of  embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest  with anti-doping enforcers.
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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
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The two Greek sprinters who plunged the Olympics into crisis after missing drugs tests today sensationally announced they were pulling out of the Games.
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Terming their explanations for missed drug tests on the eve of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens &quot;unacceptable,&quot; the world governing body of track and field (IAAF) yesterday announced that Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou would be banned
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SHAMED Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew from their home Games after a meeting with the International Olympic Committee last night.
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The heady days of the Athens Games are over. Colorful banners have been pulled down and stadiums built in a rush of last-minute construction lay empty. Now Greeks are bracing for the Olympic-sized bill.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.
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The Greek sprinters at the center of a drug scandal withdraw from the Summer Games but still face possible sanctions for missing several mandatory drug tests.
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Athens - The Athens Olympics have turned from party to tragedy for hosts Greece after doping scandals involving three of their top athletes.
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou withdrew Wednesday from the Athens Games, 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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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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Sprinters Kenteris and Thanou are withdrawn from the Games, pending a hearing into their missed drugs test.
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Greece&#39;s top two sprinters have quit the Olympic Games after submitting their country to six days of embarrassment in a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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Greece, shamed and angered by doping  scandals involving their two top sprinters and a medal-winning  weightlifter, hailed an unexpected new Olympic heroine Monday  in the form of a walker.