Russian shot-putter stripped of gold
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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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ATHENS, Greece -- A Russian shot putter tested positive for steroids after winning the first women&#39;s gold medal at the site where the Olympics were born 16 centuries ago, international and Russian officials said Sunday.
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MOSCOW The Russian Olympic Committee has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to strip Tyler Hamilton of his Olympic cycling gold medal and award it to Vyacheslav Ekimov.
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Hungary&#39;s Robert Fazekas will be stripped of his discus gold medal and thrown out of the Olympic Games after being caught trying to tamper with a urine sample, an International Olympic Committee source said Tuesday.
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A Hungarian discus-thrower was set to  lose his gold medal on Tuesday for trying to cheat on a drugs  test, setting a dismal record for Athens as the first Olympics  to see two athletics champions disgraced and expelled.
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American Matthew Emmons fired at the  wrong target on the verge of victory in the Olympics men's  50-meter rife three-position target event to surrender an  almost certain gold medal to China's Jia Zhanbo on Sunday.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Russian sprinter Anton Galkin has tested positive for a banned substance and was disqualified from the Athens Olympics on Friday.
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Belarus' Yuliya Nesterenko won the top  women's athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday,  triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of  doping woes to win the 100 meters.
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ATHENS, Greece A Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal. Leonidas Sampanis also has been expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on Sunday announced that it will strip Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis of a bronze medal won in the Athens Olympics early in the week after the athlete failed a doping test.
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TENNIS Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko , already at the center of a betting investigation, was fined $2,000 yesterday by the ATP for lack of effort in a loss at the St. Petersburg Open in Russia. The ATP said the fourth-ranked Russian was fined for lack of "best effort" in his 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 loss Thursday to Marin Cilic . The ATP ...
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Russia's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko, stripped of her gold medal after a drugs test,  said Tuesday she was determined to keep her medal because she  is innocent.
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ATHENS, Aug 17  - World number one Roger Federer&#39;s top target for the year -- an Olympic tennis gold medal -- was taken away from him in a &quot;terrible day&quot; on Tuesday.
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World number one Amelie Mauresmo withdraws from the Kremlin Cup due to injury.
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ATHENS, Greece Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offense. It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping.
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Germany is reportedly stripped of its three-day event team gold medal after a joint appeal was upheld.
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Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.