Olympics: Drugs Cast Shadow Over Games Again
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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.
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou submitted written explanations to the sport&#39;s governing body, detailing the reasons why they missed drug tests on the eve of the Athens Olympics.
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NEW YORK  - Just over 1 percent of eleven-year-olds admit to using drugs to boost their athletic performance, a new study from France shows. Furthermore, four years later, 3 percent said they had used doping agents at least once during the previous month.
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Two of Greeks most adored athletes have pulled themselves out of their host country&#39;s Olympics. Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou missed an International Olympic Committee mandatory drug test last week. Thanou and Kenteris were then involved ...
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Athletics&#39;drugs chief Arne Ljungqvist has admitted the cases of humiliated Greek sprint duo Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou will not be completed until well after the Olympic Games have finished.
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The Olympic governing body on Sunday promised to escalate its anti-doping fight by increasing surprise out-of-competition drug tests and improving the quality of testing.
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Devastated by doping, a sport looks to youth to revive its fortunes
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Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou submitted written explanations to the sport's governing body, detailing the reasons why they missed drug tests on the eve of the Athens Olympics.
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Suspicion of performance-enhancing drug use circles the sport now, but the evidence of past doping remains in black and white.
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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Drug-use and an on-pitch battle stained the 10th day of the Asian Games on Sunday as two athletes were disqualified for doping and two fighting hockey teams had to be separated by security guards.
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The International Olympic Committee will investigate charges that gold medalists Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery used steroids and other banned drugs, possibly the first step toward stripping their records from the Games.
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ATHENS -- The spotlight returned to Marion Jones last night, dimmer but harsher than four years ago. The warming glow is gone, the celebrity tarnished by innuendoes about drug use, and whatever flattering light remains comes from the same smile that lit up the Sydney Games.
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The man whose lab is at the center of a massive doping scandal says performance-enhancing drug use is rampant among US and Olympic athletes.
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ATHENS -- Weightlifting&#39;s aggressive pursuit of drug cheaters will continue even if it jeopardizes its future in the Olympics, its top official said yesterday after six more positive doping cases in what is again becoming the Games&#39; dirtiest sport. Five ...
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Greece's two top sprinters could face an  ignominious exit from the Olympics on Monday in a drugs drama  that has shamed and angered Greeks in the spiritual homeland of  the Games.
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MARION JONES again today denied taking banned drugs to help win five gold medals at the 2000 Olympics. Her latest statement came hours after the International Olympic Committee announced a steroid probe.