Russian Olympic Committee asks CAS to strip Hamilton&#39;s gold
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The Russian Olympic Committee has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeking to strip American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his Olympic time-trial gold medal and give it to Vyacheslav Ekimov because of a doping controversy.
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United States Olympic officials have accused the gymnastics world body of putting &quot;outrageous and improper pressure&quot; on Paul Hamm to hand over his gold medal to a South Korean rival.
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Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima asked sport&#39;s highest review panel to award him an Olympic gold medal after he was attacked by a spectator while leading the race at the Athens Games.
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US Olympic Committee officials angrily denounced gymnasticsâ international federation for sending a letter to Olympic gold medalist Paul Hamm asking him
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Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton&#39;s professional cycling team has fired him after he failed doping tests. Phonak was refused a racing license by the UCI, prohibiting them from competing in the Tour de France and other elite events.
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South Korea have appealed to sport&#39;s supreme legal body in an attempt to award Yang Tae-young the Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal after a scoring error robbed him of the title in Athens.
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Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton&#39;s pro cycling team fired him after he failed doping tests, the sport&#39;s world governing body said Tuesday.
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Tyler Hamilton, who won an Olympic gold medal for the United States in Athens, was fired last Thursday by Phonak, his Swiss cycling team, two months after testing positive for illegal blood transfusions.
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Russian shot-putter Irina Korzhanenko, who won the women&#39;s event at the Athens Olympics, has been stripped of her gold medal for failing a drugs test.
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Russia did its best to learn lessons from the drugs shame that hit its Winter Olympics team two years ago but the Athens summer Games have turned into a doping &quot;Hiroshima,&quot; its anti-doping chief said Monday.
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ATHENS, August 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russian shot putter Irina Korzhanenko said she was extremely indignant about her disqualification at the Olympic Games in Athens, the director of the Russian anti-doping laboratory, Professor Nikolai Durmanov, said.
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Russia's shot put champion Irina Korzhaenko is stripped of gold after failing a drugs test.
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The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unanimously recommended that Ivan Slavkov, chairman of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, be suspended.
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Hungarian sports authorities urged hammer thrower Adrian Annus on Friday to give back his Olympic medal after he was stripped of the gold for refusing to take a follow-up drug test.
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The International Olympic Commiteee announced Sunday to expel Greek lifter Leonidas Sampanis out of the Olympic Games and strip him of the bronze medal he won in the men&#39;s 62kg category at the Games after he was tested positive for a banned substance.
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Russia's Svetlana Khorkina, who was  second to American Carly Patterson in the women's all-round  gymnastics competition, has accused the judges of robbing her  of the gold medal and said "everything was decided in advance."
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ATHENS -- In a move that only served to escalate the controversy surrounding American Paul Hamm's all-around gold medal, the International Gymnastics Federation yesterday asked the Olympic champion to give the medal to Korean rival Yang Tae Young as a gesture of fair play.