Britain's Lewis out of heptathlon
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Britain's defending Olympic Games heptathlon champion Denise Lewis withdrew from the event after the fifth discipline.
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The International Olympic Commiteee announced Sunday to expel Greek lifter Leonidas Sampanis out of the Olympic Games and strip him of the bronze medal he won in the men&#39;s 62kg category at the Games after he was tested positive for a banned substance.
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Sprinters Kenteris and Thanou are withdrawn from the Games, pending a hearing into their missed drugs test.
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MARK COLVIN: The fastest man and woman in Greek athletics are tonight out of the Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have both withdrawn from the Games after an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing on their failure to turn up for ...
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ATHENS, Greece -- The winner of Wednesday&#39;s women&#39;s shot put has been stripped of her gold medal after failing a drugs test after the competition.
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Last-year's runners-up Leicester are out of this year's Heineken Cup after a third defeat of the pool stages at Edinburgh.
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Christine Ohuruogu, a British runner who had been tipped to be one of the faces of the 2012 London Olympics, has been banned from competition for a year after missing three out-of-competition drug tests, UK Athletics announced on Friday.
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GREAT Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe&#39;s dropped out of the Olympic Games women&#39;s 10,000m with eight laps still to go this morning having made a late decision to compete.
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An exhausted Paula Radcliffe pulls out of the women's marathon in tears.
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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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Olympic champion Mizuki Noguchi has withdrawn from next month's London Marathon after having her training disrupted by an Achilles tendon injury, organisers announced on Thursday.
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Controversial Greek sprinters and doping suspects Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Olympic Games on Wednesday moments after exiting an IOC inquiry which could have expelled them for missing a mandatory drugs test.
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Torri Edwards is out of the Olympics after losing her appeal against a drug ban.
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Denise Lewis makes a stuttering start to the heptathlon, as fellow Briton Kelly Sotherton storms into second place.
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The British Grand Prix has been dropped from the provisional calendar of Formula One races for next year, media reports said Thursday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Olympics today after inflicting six days of embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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Xing Huina of China was the surprise winner of the Olympic women&#39;s 10,000 meters gold medal in Athens as Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe quit with nine of the 25 laps remaining.