Controversy Again Taints Olympic Games
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ATHENS, Greece - Bad judging has become a tradition at the Olympics, almost its own event really. From the robbery of Munich, where officials stole a basketball gold from the United States and gave it to Russia
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Athens - Olympic Games medal dreams were gunned down, rescued and put on hold in Athens after a series of protests. Nowhere was the sound and fury greatest than out on the athletics track and in the gymnastics arena.
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Judges were in the firing line at the  Athens Games Tuesday after angry gymnastics fans mutinied and  Russia drafted a fierce protest to Olympics bosses.
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The IOC is examining what to do about blogs posted by athletes during the Olympic Games, amid fears that it could lead to scurrilous rumours being broadcast on the Internet.
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The horizontal bar final is hit by controversy and a delay caused by protests from the crowd.
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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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The Greeks have been shamed again at their own Olympics after bronze medal weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was kicked out after failing a dope test.
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The rivalry between the five cities vying to host the 2012 Olympics has become overtly confrontational with Madrid lodging an official protest over Paris&#39;s use of French embassies to promote their bid.
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Told to avoid inflaming anti-American  sentiment, U.S. athletes may have toned down the bravado too  much in the early days of the Athens Games.
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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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The offices of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland were broken into in another twist in the Irish Olympic gold medal controversy, it has emerged today.
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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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The sprinters have themselves to blame for their events falling into disrepute and disrepair. The damage done in Seoul in 1988 has never been repaired.
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Drugs cast another shadow over the Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred.
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China hit back on Tuesday at critics of its human rights record, saying the world was using the Olympics, which Beijing will host in August, as an excuse to make a villain out of its government.
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Olympic chiefs recommended on November 26 that Bulgaria&#39;s Ivan Slavkov be expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for tarnishing its reputation.
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The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have accused the governing body of world gymnastics of putting &quot;outrageous and improper&quot; pressure on gold medallist Paul Hamm to give his medal to a South Korean rival.