Russian shot putter fails drug 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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Olympic men's hammer champion Adrian  Annus has been stripped of his gold medal after failing to take  a drug test, an IOC source said on Sunday.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive for drugs, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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Women's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko of Russia will lose her gold medal after testing  positive for a banned steroid, the head of the Russian Olympic  Committee's anti-doping body said Sunday.
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Russia could miss the rowing at this year's Olympics, after more of their athletes were found guilty of drug offences.
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The women&#39;s gold medallist in shot put, Irina Korzhanenko, has been disqualified from the Olympics and stripped of her medal after testing positive for doping.
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A series of errors and  misunderstandings led to the botched drug test that resulted in  American cyclist Tyler Hamilton retaining his gold medal from  the Athens Olympics, said a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  report Thursday.
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ATHENS : The Olympics were rocked by yet another doping scandal after it was confirmed that Russian women&#39;s shot put gold medallist Irina Korzhanenko had failed a drug test.
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LONDON -- Stefan Koubek of Austria was suspended for three months by the International Tennis Federation on Wednesday for failing a drug test at the French Open.
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Greek Olympics officials say they are unaware of any team member failing a drugs test after media reports that the International Olympic Committee had found a Greek competitor had taken banned substances.
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It started with a missed drugs test and ended with a stripped gold medal. In between it was dominated by steroids, stimulants and diuretics.
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A failed drug test taints cyclist Floyd Landis' heroic victory. Is he flawed, or is the testing?
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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.
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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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THENS, Aug. 19 - Five more Olympic weight lifters have been suspended for failing drug tests, including two who were barred just before their competitions, the International Weightlifting Federation said Thursday.
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The IOC announced Thursday that rower Olena Olefirenko from the Ukraine had tested positive for the banned substance Ethamivan. Olefirenko was on the bronze medal quadruple sculls
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Russia's U.S. Open champion Svetlana  Kuznetsova has been cleared of a doping offense after the  Women's Tennis Association (WTA) said the Belgian government  official who made the accusation got it wrong.