Russian Shot Putter Stripped of Gold Medal
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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.
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A Greek weightlifter loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian shot putter also fails a test.
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The International Olympic Committee formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals yesterday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat.
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ATHENS, Greece - The first woman to win a gold medal at Ancient Olympia - a Russian shot putter - is under investigation for a positive drug test, international and Russian Olympic officials said Sunday.
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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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Germany is reportedly stripped of its three-day event team gold medal after a joint appeal was upheld.
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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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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko became the first woman to win a gold medal at the ancient site that birthed the Olympics, recording the three longest throws of the shot put competition.
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American shooter Matt Emmons fired at the wrong target on his final shot Sunday, blowing a commanding lead in the Olympic 50-meter three-position rifle event and allowing Jia Zhanbo of China to take the gold.
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in Athens on August 23 that women&#39;s shot put champion Korzhanenko of Russia has been excluded from the 28th Olympic Games after failing a doping test.
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Disgraced Olympic shot put championIrina Korzhanenko from Russia has been expelled from the Athens Games after failing a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.
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Tatyana Lebedeva led a Russian 1-2-3 in  the Olympic women's long jump final Friday as Marion Jones of  the United States missed out on a medal.
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A Greek Olympian has been stripped of his bronze medal after testing positive for drugs, and a Russian gold medallist has also reportedly failed a test.
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko won the top women&#39;s athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday, triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of doping woes to win the 100 meters.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Yuriy Bilonog won the gold medal in the men&#39;s shot put at Olympia, the home of the ancient Games, by virtue of his second-best effort after his last throw matched the leading mark set by US athlete Adam Nelson.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on Sunday announced that it will strip Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis of a bronze medal won in the Athens Olympics early in the week after the athlete failed a doping test.