Greek Weightlifter Stripped of Medal
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was stripped of his bronze medal Sunday and expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense, another embarrassment for the host nation.    He was the first athlete at the Athens Games to lose his medal because of doping...
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Tunisian swimmer Oussama Mellouli is banned for 18 months Tuesday for a doping violation and stripped of the gold and silver medals he won at the world championships.
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ATHENS: Paralympic judo champion Sergio Perez has been stripped of his gold medal after failing a doping test but has escaped a ban.
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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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Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics was stripped of his silver medal and kicked out of the Olympics on Saturday for using steroids. Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca was also expelled for a positive drug test.
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ATHENS: Irina Korzhanenko of Russia lost her shot put gold medal on Monday and was expelled from the Athens Games for doping, ruining her historic victory at Ancient Olympia.
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It&#39;s the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping, however, nine weightlifters, including Leonidas Sampanis, have failed drug tests.
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ATHENS, Greece Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis has been stripped of his bronze medal for a doping offense. It was the first medal to be stripped from an athlete in Athens because of doping.
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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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Greece's top two sprinters pulled out of  the Olympics on Wednesday after inflicting six days of  embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest  with anti-doping enforcers.
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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 Friday, as doping overshadowed Michael  Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal winner.
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Greece's top two sprinters pulled out of  the Olympics Wednesday after inflicting six days of  embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest  with anti-doping enforcers.
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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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ATHENS, Greece - Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.    Korzhanenko, 30, the first woman to win a gold medal at the sacred site of Ancient Olympia, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after Wednesday's competition...
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Greece&#39;s two top track and field stars have pulled out of the Athens Olympics after apologizing to their embarrassed nation for a scandal that arose after they missed drug tests.
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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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Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Olympics on Wednesday after inflicting six days of embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.