Drugs shadow over Sydney Games stain Olympic story
The Australian questions whether the Sydney Olympics will be remembered as the Drugs Olympics amid a spate of doping cases. Bulgarian weightlifters, a Latvian rower, Romanian gymnast Raducan, and others face bans for banned substances, while IOC and national bodies defend crackdown and call for fair play.
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Sydney
Andreea Raducan
United States
IOC
Samaranch
Mihaela Melinte
China
Yuan Weimin
Marion Jones
C.J. Hunter
USA Track and Field
Raducan
Romania
Nadia Comaneci
Court of Arbitration For Sport
Olympic
Ion Tiriac
Soci
Six Olympians fail drug tests at Sydney four stripped
Four of six athletes who failed competition drug tests at the Sydney Olympics were stripped of medals. Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria earned silver in the 123 pound weight class, and Sevdalin Minchev lost bronze in the 137 pound class after testing positive for furosemide.
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Dick Pound
Jamie Nettleton
Sydney
Australia
John Howard
Rochelle Hawkes
IOC
Sydney Morning Herald
Izabela Dragneva Bulgariz
Ivan Ivanov
Bulgaria
Sevdalin Minchev
Olga Shishigina wins 106m hurdles gold in Sydney
Olga Shishigina of Kazakhstan claimed track and field gold in the 106 meter hurdles at Sydney after serving a two year ban for steroid use following the 1996 Games. Ellina Zvereva of Belarus earned gold in discus in 2000 after a 12 month steroid ban that kept her out of the 1992 Games.
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Olga Shishigina
Kazakstan
Shishigina
Sydney
Ellina Zvereva
Belarus
Zvereva
Infant girl abducted from home in Florida
A 10 day old infant Latisha Rene Dunn was abducted from her Jacksonville home after two women knocked, pepper sprayed a teen, and carried the baby from the crib while the mother Angela Brown tried to intervene.
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Florida
Jacksonville, Fla
Angela Brown
Jacksonville
Latisha Renae Dunn
Downtown fights shape a local historic push in Gaston
The city preserves pivotal sites as Unity Place replaces the first Baptist Church and the County Courthouse becomes city hall offices funded by a tax hike. Officials eye national district status while Dallas downtown seeks local historic listing and Loray Firestone Mill aims for national recognition.
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First Baptist Church
Unity Place
St. Stephens Ame Zion Church
Gaston County Arts Council
Schenk
Dallas
Loray/Firestone Mill
Lucy Penegar
Gaston County
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