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 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 - 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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ATHENS, Greece A Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal. Leonidas Sampanis also has been expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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After a seven-day saga featuring missed drug tests, a suspicious motorcycle crash and defiant denials, Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Athens Olympics on Wednesday rather than be kicked out.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- The IAAF announced that Greek sprinters&#39;s explanations for missing tests in Tel Aviv, Chicago and Athens were unacceptable.
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being  stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team  manager offered to quit on Friday, as doping overshadowed  Michael Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal  winner.
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In another embarrassing incident for the Olympic host nation, a Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offence.
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Konstandinos Kederis relinquished his Olympic 200m title in absentia here yesterday - but it was almost as if the stadium was filled with his angry spirit as the 70,000 crowd jeered
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News that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters have withdrawn from the Athens Olympics over missed dope tests has swept through the crowd gathered at the home of the ancient Games to watch the shot put.
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I thought the commotion before the race was disgraceful. Obviously, those in the stadium didn&#39;t represent the whole of Greece, but it looked bad for the organisers of a good Games thus far.
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ATHENS As the sprinters walked out for the final of the men&#39;s 200 meters, the crowd in the packed Olympic Stadium began to boo.
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The final curtain yesterday came down on the Greek tragedy which has overshadowed the first week of the Athens Olympics when the sprinters Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou withdrew from the games.
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The Olympics turned ugly when  unforgiving Greeks, incensed that fallen hero Costas Kenteris  was missing from the 200 meters, delayed the final by booing  and chanting for five minutes.
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In contrast to their meteoric rise, the former Olympic 200 metres champion, Kostandinos Kenteris, and the 100m silver medallist, Ekatherini Thanou, are fading slowly before being sucked into the black hole of sporting oblivion.
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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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ATHENS -- It was a long goodbye almost a week in the making, but Greece&#39;s troubled star sprinters have finally left the Olympic building.