Call to expel disgraced Bulgarian IOC member
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LAUSANNE  - The International Olympic Committee&#39;s executive board called for disgraced Bulgarian IOC member Ivan Slavkov to be expelled for tarnishing the movement.
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BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- An activist who helped organize a petition complaining that Chinese want "human rights, not the Olympics" will be tried for inciting subversion against the state, his lawyer said Thursday.
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The United States Olympic Committee asks President George W. Bush's re-election campaign to pull a television ad that mentions the Olympics.
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New Delhi, September 29: Lifter Sanamacha Chanu, who was slapped a life ban by the Indian Olympic Association, today accused the authorities of adopting double standards saying they should have followed the same yardstick while dealing with other dope
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World gymnastics officials were looking for a way out of the Paul Hamm medal mess. All they did was make more people mad. The president of the International Gymnastics Federation
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Britain's climb-down last weekend looks to have ended attempts to gag athletes at the Beijing Olympics but there is growing resentment among top Olympians about pressure on them to speak out on political issues.
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The chief organizer of the Turin 2006 winter Olympics, Valentino Castellani meets the media in Turin, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004 after announcing he is resigning amid an internal power struggle for control of the games.
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Spain&#39;s sporting community must pay a heavy price for the sickening racist abuse aimed at England&#39;s Ashley Cole and Shaun-Wright Phillips - a punishment so harsh it eradicates this shameful behaviour once and for all.
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The new 2012 Olympic logo should be banned from television as it could trigger an epileptic fit, an expert says.
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The Greeks were shamed again at their own Olympics on Sunday when bronze medal weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was kicked out after failing a dope test.
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Sport: Athletics:  Gold winner urges BOA to lift Olympic ban.
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Marion Jones should be stripped of her five Olympic medals if allegations that she used banned drugs before the 2000 Sydney Games are true, World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound said Friday.
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Hungarian Olympic discus champion Robert  Fazekas will lose his gold medal and be expelled from the Games  after breaking doping rules, the International Olympic  Committee (IOC) said Tuesday.
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New Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) Tainted lifters Sanamacha Chanu, Pratima Kumari and S Sunaina were banned for life by the Indian Olympic Association here today.
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A Hungarian discus-thrower was set to  lose his gold medal on Tuesday for trying to cheat on a drugs  test, setting a dismal record for Athens as the first Olympics  to see two athletics champions disgraced and expelled.
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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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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound says that if US sprinter Marion Jones has taken banned substances she should be stripped of all her medals regardless of when she won them.