Lashko retires with no gold
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AFTER four Olympics competing for two countries, Irina Lashko ended her diving career in Athens without a gold medal. Melbourne-based Lashko, who owns two Olympic silvers and a bronze, finished seventh in
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Russia: Top seed Marat Safin was dumped out of the one-million-dollar ATP Saint Petersburg Open here on Friday following a shock straight sets defeat to Frenchman Michael Llodra.
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Russian opposition figure and former chess star Garry Kasparov abandons plans to run for the presidency.
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Athens -- Stacy Dragila, the first great woman pole vaulter and 2000 Olympic champion, will not be defending her gold medal in Athens.
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Former world number one Monica Seles announced her official retirement from professional tennis at the age of 34 on Thursday.
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Andre Agassi will retire after this year&#039;s U.S. Open, leaving tennis after two decades during which he collected a career Grand Slam and morphed from &quot;Image Is Everything&quot; brashness to elder statesman.
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Nastia Liukin couldn't watch. She knew she might be the one who had let another world title slip away.
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ATHENS - Russian Yelena Slesarenko deprived Hestrie Cloete of the high jump gold medal by soaring to the title with a display bordering on perfection.
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Legendary Russian swimmer Alexander Popov has denied reports that he is to call time on his illustrious career at the age of 33. French sports newspaper L&#39;Equipe claimed on Thursday that he is retiring after 13 years at the top.
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For the first time in 20 years, an American woman did not win gold in the 100m dash. On Saturday that honor went to Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus.
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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of these games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.
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British rowing great Matthew Pinsent, who won gold medals at each of the last four Olympic Games, announced here on Tuesday his retirement from the sport.
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Ukrainian rower Olena Olefirenko has failed a drugs test and has been stripped of a bronze medal, the International Olympic Committee announced this morning.
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Four-time Olympic medalist Stephan Eberharter of Austria has announced his retirement from competitive skiing. Eberharter told reporters in Vienna that 20 years of the sport is enough for him.
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Alexander Popov retires from swimming, according to French newspaper L'Equipe.
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Four-time Olympic gold medallist Matthew Pinsent this morning announced his retirement from rowing three months after his final triumph in Athens in the coxless fours.
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For the first time in 20 years, an American woman did not win the 100-meter dash at the Olympic Games. And now, after Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus