World decathlon champion Clay withdraws from U.S. meet
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  - World decathlon champion Bryan Clay withdrew from the U.S. championships on Friday saying he was suffering aches and pains from a recent competition.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- Second-seeded Andy Roddick of the United States was knocked out of the Olympic tennis tournament Wednesday by Fernando Gonzalez of Chile.
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Jason Lezak, fastest man in the world  this year, and Ian Crocker were eliminated in the heats of the  100 meters freestyle on Tuesday, leaving the United States  without an Olympic finalist in the event for the first time,  barring the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games and an open-water duel  between an Austrian and a Hungarian in 1896.
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Bruce Bowen was the final player cut from the U.S. basketball team, which begins play in the World Championships in Japan on Saturday.
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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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NORTON, Massachusetts  - South Korean K.J. Choi withdrew from the Deutsche Bank Championship on Friday because of a back injury after shooting a two-over-par 73 in the opening round.
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Scandal-ridden Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has revealed that she has withdrawn from the Games.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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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (Sports Network) - Reigning  Masters champion Phil Mickelson withdrew from next week's World  Golf Championships-American Express Championship on Thursday.
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Greek Olympic 200 meters champion Costas  Kenteris, the focus of an Olympic doping scandal, withdrew from  the Athens Games on Wednesday "out of a sense of  responsibility."
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Sprinter Marion Jones announced Thursday that she would not compete again this year, even though she was recently cleared of a doping violation.
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Marion Jones pulled out of this weekend's World Cup in Athletics in Athens and won't race again this season.
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World number two Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from this week's St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee after a specialist in San Diego advised him to get a cortisone shot for a lingering wrist injury.
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ATHENS, Greece -- American Allen Johnson, a four-time world champion and a former Olympic gold medalist, made a shocking exit from the second round of the 110-meter hurdles.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - The International Olympic Committee ended the once stellar Olympic career of U.S. sprinter Marion Jones on Wednesday, taking back her five Sydney 2000 Games medals after she admitted to taking drugs.
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Olympic champion Mizuki Noguchi has withdrawn from next month's London Marathon after having her training disrupted by an Achilles tendon injury, organisers announced on Thursday.
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Tuesday's day session at the U.S. Open   has been canceled because of rain.
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Russia have dropped their number one   player Nikolay Davydenko from the singles for this weekend's   Davis Cup semi-final against the United States on clay in   Moscow.