Azerbaijan lifters disqualified, life-banned for doping
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Two Azerbaijan powerlifters, one male and one female, have been disqualified from the 2004 Paralympic Games and banned for life, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced in Athens on September 22.
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ATHENS - Host nation Greece, already embarrassed by two sprinters who dropped out of the Games after missing a drug test, received another black eye when bronze-winning weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for excessive ...
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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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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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Nine Iranian weightlifters have tested positive for doping, forcing the national team to withdraw from the upcoming world championships.
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Disgraced former sprint stars Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were yesterday banned by international athletics officials from taking part in any competition, pending a ruling by Greek sports authorities on charges that the two runners dodged doping
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A judo champion from Iran who said he would not compete against an Israeli athlete is disqualified from competition Sunday when he is found to be overweight.
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Doping cast its sleazy shadow over the  Olympics again when it was announced on Thursday that five  weightlifters had tested positive for performance-enhancing  drugs.
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Two powerlifters from Azerbaijan tested positive for steroids in initial drug tests and are banned for life from the Paralympics. Sara Abbazova, in the 165-pound class, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone
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Doping cast its sleazy shadow over the Olympics again when it was announced on Thursday that five weightlifters had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Controversial US sprinter Jerome Young has been banned for life after failing a second doping test, the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Wednesday.
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The International Olympic Committee has stripped a Greek weightlifter of his bronze medal and expelled him from the Athens Games for a doping offense.
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Two Indian weightlifters were handed life bans by the country&#39;s Olympic committee after the pair were thrown out of the Athens Olympics for doping.
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SPRINTER Jerome Young, a central figure in a doping case that could cost the US relay team its gold medal from the Sydney Olympics, was banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency yesterday following his second positive test for a banned drug.
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The International Olympic Association head says any athlete caught doping will be barred from the next games.
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World 400m champion Jerome Young has been banned for life after a second positive dope test, says the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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The US anti-doping agency banned the sprinter Jerome Young for life yesterday after the world 400-metre champion&#39;s second positive test for an illegal steroid.