Olympics Drug Scandals
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Unfortunately, no sports these days are totally free of allegations of cheating, doping and unsportsmanlike conduct. Read about all the doping and drug scandals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
the allegations at Beijing
- Greek sprinter is first positive drug test of Beijing Olympics
- Greek sprinter Tassos Gousis last night earned the least-wanted Olympic title of the Beijing Games, when he became the first athlete to be announced as having failed a drugs test.
Greek TV reports stated that the 29-year-old, who was due to compete in the 200 metres, tested positive during tests conducted by the Greek anti-doping agency before the team left for training in Japan.
- Blonska removed from long jump final after positive doping test
- Heptathlon silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska has been temporarily suspended from the Beijing Olympics pending a final ruling in her doping case.
- Four horses banned from jumping final for doping
- The horses - representing Brazil, Germany, Ireland and Norway - had been suspended after testing positive for a prohibited substance, the FEI, which controls the sport, said in a statement.
The four banned riders are Bernardo Alves of Brazil and his horse Chupa Chup; Germany's Christian Ahlmann and Coster; Ireland's Denis Lynch and Latinus; and Norway's Tony Andre Hansen and Camiro.
- Greek hurdler tests positive for banned drug
- Reigning women's 400-meter hurdles champion Fani Halkia of Greece will not defend her Olympic title in Beijing after becoming the latest Greek athlete to fail a doping test.
The International Olympic Committee confirmed Sunday that Halkia tested positive for a steroid at a Greek athletics team training camp in Japan before coming to Beijing.
- Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno fails drug test
- SPANISH cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno has become the first athlete to be expelled from the Beijing Games after returning a positive drug test for EPO, the artificial hormone that is believed to boost endurance.
The 27-year-old cyclist was one of Spain's hopes for a cycling medal in Beijing.
Moreno was tested two days before the Games started and left Beijing the same day as her test was taken, IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said yesterday
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- Rogge says he doesn't expect 2004 Olympic retesting to yield flood of positive ...
- The International Olympic Committee has previously retested samples from the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. ?The doping tests in 2004 in Athens were already very sophisticated,? Rogge said Monday. ?Naturally, we will test ...
- APNewsBreak: IOC set to retest doping samples from 2004 Athens Olympics
- The IOC has no specific information that certain drugs were being used in Athens that weren't known at the time, but doping officials felt it was still worth rechecking the samples. ?Unlike Beijing and Torino where we had a clear indication that we ...
- Olympic Athletics History: The Last Five Men to Win the 110-Meter Hurdles
- The following list includes information on the last five men to win Olympic gold in the event: Dayron Robles: At the Beijing Olympics, Robles powered over the hurdles for 110 meters in 12.93 seconds to defeat Americans David Payne and David Oliver-the ...
- Athens samples likely to be retested
- The IOC has no specific information that certain drugs were being used in Athens that weren't known at the time, but doping officials felt it was still worth rechecking the samples. "Unlike Beijing and Torino where we had a clear indication that we ...
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pre Olympic scandals
- Katerina Thanou banned from Olympics after drugs scandal
- Katerina Thanou will not compete in Beijing after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refused the Greek sprinter entry to the athletics competition for bringing the Olympic Games into disrepute.
The IOC's executive board today ruled her ineligible to compete after the "scandalous saga" that overshadowed the start of the previous Games in 2004. Thanou and compatriot Kostas Kenteris missed a drugs test of the eve of the Athens Games after claiming to have been involved in a motorcycle accident.
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