The Olympics’ war on drugs claims another “victim” — Greek swimmer Ioannis Drymonakos who tested positive for methyltrienolone, a banned steroid. If this trend continues, we just might come up with a Hall of Shame listing the names of Olympians whose performances are drug-enhanced.
Ioannis is ranked second in the world in the 200-meter [...]
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Ioannis Drymonakos: Doper?
Weird
Did you know that some events in the Winter Olympics have a very small number of “practitioners”? This is according to a group of women ski jumpers which is planning to sue the Vancouver Organizing Committee to have women’s ski jumping included in the Vancouver Olympics. From AP:
Supporters of women’s ski jumpers argue there [...]
Olympian to Watch: Veronica Campbell, Jamaican Sprinter
Will Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell win a sprint double in the Beijing Olympics? She is the defending champion in the 100 meters and she won a gold medal for the 200 meters in the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan.
PHOTO CREDIT: AFP/Getty Images
Photo of the Day: Liu Xiang
Our favorite Chinese athlete, hurdler Liu Xiang and his coach Sun Haiping donate 500,000 yuan (about 71,000 U.S. dollars) for the disaster relief operations in quake-hit Sichuan Province in southwest China. Go Liu Xiang!
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