Equestrian gold medallist denies cheating
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Irish show jumper Cian O&#39;Connor says he is not a cheat after it emerged that a second horse owned and ridden by the Olympic gold medallist tested positive in a drugs test.
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Kieren Fallon, the former champion Flat jockey, will not face disrepute charges relating to race-fixing allegations made against him in a Sunday newspaper, the Jockey Club said on Tuesday.
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American gymnast Paul Hamm will keep  his Olympic all-round gold medal after the Court of Arbitration  for Sport (CAS) rejected Thursday an appeal from South Korea's  Yang Tae-young.
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Defence firm BAE Systems has strenuously denied a report that it secretly paid a Saudi Arabian prince more than one billion pounds in connection with Britain&#39;s biggest weapons deal.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Anky van Grunsven of the Netherlands successfully defended her gold medal in the individual dressage event on Wednesday at the Olympics.
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Athens Olympics organizers have  vehemently denied any financial improprieties in the run-up to  this year's Games as suggested in an audit report this week.
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A former Irish priest famous for stunts  that disrupted the marathon at the Athens Olympics and  Britain's Grand Prix denied charges on Wednesday of indecency  with a schoolgirl.
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Cian O`Connor is insisting he is innocent after a sample taken on the horse he rode at the Rome Grand Prix in March showed traces of a sedative.
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Swiss watchmaker Swatch, official timekeeper to the Athens Olympics, denies allegations of tax and customs duty evasion.
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ATHENS : Dutch cycling great Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel emotionally defended her Olympic time trial gold medal here.
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Former Olympic 50m and 100m freestyle gold medal winner Alexander Popov has denied a report in French newspaper L&#39;Equipe that he is set to retire.
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Ireland&#39;s only champion at the Athens Olympics and two German riders risk losing their gold medals after their horses failed dope tests.
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Cian O&#39;Connor, the Irish showjumper whose Olympics-winning horse tested positive for a banned substance, could now hold on to his gold medal following the sensational news that a portion of the horse&#39;s sample has been stolen.
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An Oregon massage therapist denied Wednesday that he applied testosterone cream on American sprinter Justin Gatlin, a charge raised by Gatlin's coach during a doping investigation.
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The ruling body of gymnastics (FIG)  denied Saturday putting pressure on all-round champion Paul  Hamm to hand over his gold medal to South Korea's Yang  Tae-young, saying the decision should be left to the American.
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Waterford Crystal, the horse Cian O&#39;Connor rode to win Ireland&#39;s only gold medal at the Athens Olympics, has failed a dope test after the individual show jumping competition.
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ATHENS - Greeceâs disgraced Olympic sprint champion Costas Kenteris on Sunday broke a lengthy silence since the end of the Athens Games to deny faking a motorcycle crash to avoid a doping test.