Weightlifter fails test
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The athlete who failed a doping test is confirmed as a weightlifting bronze medallist.
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Five weightlifters were suspended Thursday for flunking drug tests they took before the Olympics, including two who were pulled out just before walking to the lifting stand.
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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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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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In another embarrassing incident for the Olympic host nation, a Greek weightlifter has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offence.
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ATHENS : Super-heavyweight Russian weightlifter Albina Khomich has been kicked out of the Olympics for failing a drugs test, a senior International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) official confirmed to AFP.
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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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A top Indian woman athlete who won a silver medal at a recent regional championship fails a gender test.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A female weightlifter from Myanmar and an Indian female lifter, who both failed in out-of-competitiondrugs tests, had been suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), bringing the ...
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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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A Greek athlete loses his medal after testing positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The second medalist at the Olympic Games has tested positive for an illegal drug and been stripped of a medal.
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.    It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping...
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Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics was stripped of his silver medal and kicked out of the Olympics on Saturday for using steroids. Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca was also expelled for a positive drug test.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs.
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A Greek weightlifter who lost his bronze medal in the Athens Olympics after testing positive for unnaturally high testosterone levels was charged yesterday with use of the illegal performance-enhancing drug.
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Although a lab blunder forced the International Olympic Committee to drop the doping case against Olympic time trial gold medalist Tyler Hamilton, the IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have maintained that the test to detect blood transfusions