Top Greek sports writer assaulted
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The sports editor of a top Greek daily who investigated the Olympic sprinter scandal recovers in hospital after being beaten up.
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In the first daily bulletin from the Hong Kong Inter-City tournament, which ended last Sunday, the editor, Munawar Sawirudin, a top Indonesian player, told a story against himself.
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Konstandinos Kederis relinquished his Olympic 200m title in absentia here yesterday - but it was almost as if the stadium was filled with his angry spirit as the 70,000 crowd jeered
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THE intense emotion surrounding Olympian Sally Robbins increased yesterday when she left a team function in tears on Monday night after being slapped by Athens Games teammate Catriona Oliver.
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GREEK sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou face two-year suspensions for violating anti-doping rules. The International Association of Athletic Federations are set to hammer the pair after they missed out-of-competition drug tests.
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Two more newspapers are ordered to pay libel damages to an Ulster rugby fan who was assaulted at a match.
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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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Police raid on reporter's home seen as retaliation for story.
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The Greek press is in raptures following the opening ceremony for the Athens Olympics.
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An ex-priest who lives in Britain was given a 12-month suspended sentence today for disrupting the menâs Olympic marathon in Athens.
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ATHENS, Greece  - A Greek court Monday gave a  former Irish priest a suspended 12-month jail sentence and a  $3,600 fine for pushing a leading Olympic marathon runner off  the road, a court source said.
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A television reporter investigating a suspected real estate scam was attacked by a woman and her husband, who punched and tackled him as a cameraman videotaped the incident.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
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Greek newspapers are outraged by the US decision to recognise the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia simply as 'Macedonia'.
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ATHENS - Vanderlei de Lima had been running in Greek heat for well over two hours and, by the way, was mugged along the way by a lunatic in a red kilt and high green socks.
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being  stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team  manager offered to quit on Friday, as doping overshadowed  Michael Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal  winner.
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Greece's two top sprinters faced an  ignominious exit from the Olympics on Monday in a drugs drama  that has shamed and angered Greeks in the spiritual homeland of  the Games.