Too much alcohol ruins season for Pechonkina
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World 400 metres hurdles champion and world record holder Yuliya Pechonkina said she has ruined her season by using too much alcohol on her body.
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NEW YORK -- When Yelena Dementyeva lost to fellow Russian Anastasia Myskina in the French Open final in June, she could barely hold back the tears.
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LEON, Nicaragua  - An adulterated batch of   moonshine cane liquor has killed 23 people in Nicaragua, the   government said on Friday, and dozens more with symptoms of   poisoning flooded an overstretched hospital.
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Alexei Yashin will be out at least two weeks with a sprained right knee, and the New York Islanders' leading scorer could miss a month.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood: too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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Australia&#39;s Alicia Molik has caused an upset in the second round of the WTA tournament in Zurich, beating sixth-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva.
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Growing alcohol consumption is creating an alien drinking and "lager-lout" culture among the young in Italy, medical experts have warned.
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Police say excessive drinking is a factor in a rise in the number of rapes and sexual assaults over the last year.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country - s vintners say they - re confounded by a problem that threatens their livelihood - ' too much of a good thing and not enough people ...
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Russian men are risking death by drinking aftershave with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 - nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening. The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec.
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There is no safe amount of alcohol that mothers-to-be can drink, experts believe.
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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. After  showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the  400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained  about the media's obsession with drugs -- and defended two of  her disgraced compatriots.
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Fighting involving ethnic Armenians and others in a Volga River town left one person dead and at least three injured this week, officials and news reports said Friday, fueling fears of a rise of ethnic violence across Russia.
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Greece coach Otto Rehhagel has attempted to shake the team out of their Euro2004 championship hangover by insisting that they donât deserve a place in World Cup 2006 if they canât defeat lowly Kazakhstan at home.
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Estonia and Finland are both struggling to tackle heavy alcohol consumption, Laura Sheeter reports.
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THE Tartan Army are being fleeced by greedy Moldovan hotel bosses. Fans who plan to travel to the ex-Soviet state for the World Cup qualifier on October 13 are being charged 240 for a two-night stay.