Thanou pulls out of Games
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Scandal-ridden Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has revealed that she has withdrawn from the Games. Team-mate and training partner Kostas Kenteris, who also missed a drugs test on the eve of the Games, withdrew this morning.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Athens Games, overshadowing the start of track and field events on the fifth day of competition. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were eliminated from the tennis.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 18, 2004  Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou pulled out of the Athens Games on Wednesday, nearly a week after they missed a drug test and were later hospitalized following a suspicious motorcycle crash.
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Greek Olympic 200 meters champion Costas  Kenteris said on Wednesday he was withdrawing from the Athens  Games "out of a sense of responsibility."
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Injured Mark Philippoussis has withdrawn from Australia's Davis Cup team for the World Group playoff against Morocco later this month.
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Top-seeded Amelie Mauresmo withdrew from the Swisscom Challenge on Tuesday because of a strained thigh muscle. It&#39;s the same injury that forced Mauresmo to pull out of the final of a tournament in Filderstadt, Germany, this month.
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Greece&#39;s top two sprinters have quit the Olympic Games after submitting their country to six days of embarrassment in a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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Actress Jerry Hall pulls out of one-woman sjpw in London. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Olympic field hockey champions Australia have pulled out of the Champions Trophy to be held in Pakistan in December citing security fears, the Pakistan Hockey Federation said today.
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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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World number five Andy Roddick has pulled out of the Paris Masters Series tournament starting on Sunday, organizers said on Friday.
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pk2000 writes &quot;Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce.&quot; &#39;Unfortunately, for now, we have made the decision to stop participating in UN/Cefact for business reasons and this serves as notification of our immediate
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Disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou finished out of the medal's when she finished sixth in the women's 60m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships here on Sunday.
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Paris, France (Sports Network) - Amelie Mauresmo has decided to withdraw from France&#39;s Fed Cup team to rest for the start of the 2005 season.
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ATHENS -- The final curtain fell Wednesday on a week-long drama that has riveted this nation when Greece&#39;s two top sprinters, swept up in a suspected doping scandal, withdrew from the Summer Olympics and competitions that might have ...
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British heptathlete Denise Lewis withdraws from the Athens Games after a disappointing run of results.
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World number one Amelie Mauresmo withdraws from the Kremlin Cup due to injury.