Doping Casts Shadow Over Olympics -- Again
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Five weightlifters were banned from the Olympics after failing drugs tests, officials said on Thursday, as doping scandals continued to dominate the first week of the Games.
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ATHENS  - The Athens Paralympics weathered its first doping scandal, while juggernaut China continued to dominate the competition, racking up nearly twice as many as second-place Britain over the first four days of competition.
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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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The disfiguring doping scandal involving Greece&#39;s two leading athletes, Konstadinos Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou, came to a messy conclusion here yesterday, as both jumped before they could be pushed, forfeiting their places in ...
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This is only February, and six months remain before the Beijing Olympics, but many elite track and field athletes are already establishing their Olympic credentials or trying and not succeeding.
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A doping probe that has dogged the host  country's Olympic Games staggered toward farce on Monday when a  hearing involving Greece's two top sprinters was postponed  again.
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The doping scandal surrounding the Greek athletes, Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, and their controversial coach Christos Tsekos, intensified yesterday when it was reported that premises
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Baseball's steroid scandal could be seen coming six years ago. The Olympics have feared the one unfolding now for two decades.
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The Olympic games engages virtually everyone on the planet. The past two weeks have shown they are thrilling, intoxicating and enriching - and, of course, unpredictable.
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As some approach Olympic levels, the question is whether their high-tech limbs give them an unfair advantage
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Drug-use and an on-pitch battle stained the 10th day of the Asian Games on Sunday as two athletes were disqualified for doping and two fighting hockey teams had to be separated by security guards.
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The 2008 Olympics are still a long way away but worries are already growing about whether it will become the first genetically enhanced competition in the crown jewel of international amateur sports.
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As the Greeks recover from last night&#39;s Olympics closing ceremony, many German papers on Monday morning commented that drug scandals cast a shadow over these Summer Games.
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A weightlifting drugs scandal and yet another twist to the saga of disgraced Greek sprinter Kostadinos Kenteris dominated the Olympics on Thursday as China extended their lead at the top of the medal table.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - The discovery of a  new designer steroid shows anti-doping authorities need better  intelligence-gathering, the International Olympic Committee  president said Tuesday.
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One of the feel-good stories of the Olympics turned sour Saturday, becoming the latest in a long line of scoring controversies that seem to show up in every Games.
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- An equestrian doping scandal could cost Ireland its only gold medal from the Athens Olympics. Cian O&#39;Connor won the individual show jumping gold aboard Waterford Crystal, but the horse was