IAAF mulls lowering allowable doping no-shows
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The world governing body for athletics will consider lowering from three to two the number of drug test no-shows before an athlete is considered to have committed a doping offense.
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CROMWELL, Conn. -- Changing his stance, PGA commissioner Tim Finchem is calling on golf to come up with a universal policy to test for performance-enhancing drugs.
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UK Athletics (UKA) on Thursday launched a review of its anti-doping policy that could result in athletes who are caught using performance-enhancing drugs being banned from representing Great Britain for life.
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Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and  Katerina Thanou are expected to learn Tuesday if they face bans  for missing pre-Olympics doping tests.
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Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou's missed drugs tests will be investigated by the IAAF.
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Athens - The ruling body of World Athletics, the IAAF, announced on Thursday that a doping review board would start an immediate investigation into the cases of Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou.
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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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Sprinter Justin Gatlin got his doping ban reduced but not by enough to make him eligible to defend his Olympic 100-meter title this year, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - Athletes and officials from athletics' world governing body have called for a return to four-year bans for sportsmen and women who participate in "proven aggravated doping cases".
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SALVO, North Carolina  - U.S. athletics coaches whose athletes are sanctioned for doping will be penalised themselves under a revised USA Track and Field policy, the national governing body announced on Thursday.
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Oscar Pistorius saidhe will appeal 'âat the highest levelsâ' if the IAAF bars him from competing in the Beijing Olympics on grounds that his prosthetics give him an unfair edge.
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Olympic chiefs have ruled out cutting ticket prices despite poor attendances.
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Despite millions of dollars in research over the last decade, anti-doping authorities are uncertain if they will be able to deter use of HGH at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - A high-powered three-day international symposium organized by the IAAF on the subject of anti-doping ended on an upbeat note on Monday.
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Athletics governing body the IAAF has hit back at claims from South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius that it does not respect disabled athletes.
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Officials are examining the possibility of cancelling tomorrowâs running because of the poor conditions, while Schumacher went fastest of the day.
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Track and field Sprinter Justin Gatlin got his doping ban reduced, but not by enough to make him eligible to defend his Olympic 100-meter title this year. An arbitration panel, in a 53-page ruling released yesterday, reduced the 25-year-old sprinter's potential eight-year ban to four years. With the ban set to expire May 24, 2010, it means Gatlin would be ...