Sprinters Withdraw from Olympics Amid Swirling Controversies
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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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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Athens Games, overshadowing the start of track and field events on the fifth day of competition. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were eliminated from the tennis.
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ATHENS -- Two of Greece&#39;s most famous athletes and their coach made their first public appearance here yesterday only to withdraw from the Olympic Games rather than face a panel charged with looking into a ...
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A prosecutor postponed a decision Tuesday on whether to charge the two Greek sprinters who missed a doping test and withdrew from the Athens Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou pulled out of the Athens Games on Wednesday, 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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Greek Olympic 200 meters champion Costas  Kenteris said on Wednesday he was withdrawing from the Athens  Games "out of a sense of responsibility."
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Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou, the sprinters who brought shame on Greece on the eve of the Olympics, are facing the end of their careers after being charged with missing a drug test and faking a motorcycle accident.
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Greek pride was dealt another blow on  Friday when one of their athletes failed a drugs test at the  Olympics just 48 hours after its two top sprinters pulled out  of the Games in a doping scandal.
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The disfiguring doping scandal involving Greece&#39;s two leading athletes, Konstadinos Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou, came to a messy conclusion here yesterday, as both jumped before they could be pushed, forfeiting their places in ...
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The International Association of Athletics Federations is expected to announce today that the Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have been suspended over doping charges arising from the Athens Olympic Games.
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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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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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Sprinters Kenteris and Thanou are withdrawn from the Games, pending a hearing into their missed drugs test.
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GREEK sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou face two-year suspensions for violating anti-doping rules. The International Association of Athletic Federations are set to hammer the pair after they missed out-of-competition drug tests.
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GREEK sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were today provisionally suspended by the world governing athletics body for missing three doping tests before the Athens Olympics.
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PARIS  - Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were handed provisional bans for missing doping tests by the IAAF.
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BEIJING -- Former Olympic sprinter Maurice Greene announced his retirement on Monday.