Weightlifters test positive
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Five weightlifters have tested positive for drugs, the IOC announces.
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* Weightlifters Wafa Ammouri of Morocco, Zoltan Kecskes of Hungary, Viktor Chislean of Moldova, Pratima Kumari Na of India and Sule Sahbaz of Turkey were suspended last week by the International Weightlifting Federation for failing drug tests taken before
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ATHENS : Weightlifting was reeling from the latest crisis to hit the perennially drug-tainted sport here as six more athletes were kicked out of the Olympics for failing dope tests.
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_ Two powerlifters from Azerbaijan have tested positive for banned substances in initial doping tests and are banned for life from the Paralympics, officials said Wednesday.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis lost his Olympic bronze medal Sunday after tests revealed he had taken a banned substance. Sampanis won his medal in the 62-kilogram weightlifting class last Monday.
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The Mail on Sunday reports that a Premiership player tests positive for a "banned substance".
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The decision by the US Anti-Doping Agency comes after the Fort Worth runner&#39;s second positive test for an illegal steroid. The former 400-meter world champion tested positive for the banned drug EPO at a meet in July.
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Apparently, they&#39;re going to keep testing Olympic weightlifters until all the cheaters are gone. Or maybe until the sport itself is gone from the games.
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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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NEW YORK  - In men, young and old, strength training boosts levels of testosterone, growth hormone, and cortisol -- hormones associated with enhanced muscle mass and function, a study shows.
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The Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics has failed a drugs test and risks losing his Olympic silver medal, a national Olympic committee spokesman said yesterday, while the Russian 400m
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NEW YORK Sprinters, weight-lifters and other athletes who push themselves to the limit of exertion are familiar with muscle fatigue, and many of them blame that sore, sluggish feeling on lactic acid.
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The Russian who made history when she became the first woman to win a gold medal at the sacred site of ancient Olympia has tested positive for an anabolic steroid.
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Two powerlifters from Azerbaijan tested positive for steroids in initial drug tests and are banned for life from the Paralympics. Sara Abbazova, in the 165-pound class, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone
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A visually impaired cyclist from Slovakia, competing in the men&#39;s tandem event, was stripped of his silver medal and three weightlifters were slapped with two-year bans after testing positive for banned substances at the Athens
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Former West Ham and Birmingham winger Stan Lazaridis has tested positive for a banned substance in Australia.
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Five weightlifters are suspended after failing drugs tests.