2009

26

Mar

Ichiro delivers as Japan wins WBC title

The World Baseball Classic belongs to Japan again. Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki hit a two-out, two-run single in the top of the 10th, and Japan beat reigning Olympic champion South Korea 5-3 Monday night to win its second straight WBC title before a boisterous crowd of 54,846 at Dodger Stadium.
The Japanese won the [...]

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2008

30

Nov

Olympic champion banned for two years after testing positive to drugs

GREECE’S former 400m hurdles Olympic champion Fani Halkia has been handed a two year ban for her positive dope test at the Beijing Games, the Greek athletics federation said.
The federation confirmed a decision by its judicial committee to punish the former star.
A gold medallist at Athens in 2004 Halkia was expelled from the Beijing [...]

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2008

30

Nov

Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu named UK’s top athlete

Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu was named athlete of the year by the British Olympic Association on Saturday, a year after she overturned the organization’s ban for a doping violation.
The 24-year-old Londoner beat favourite Sanya Richards at August’s Beijing Games to become Britain’s first ever female Olympic gold medallist over 400 metres.
Ohuruogu was banned for 12 [...]

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