Former pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco of Italy is looking forward to the Beijing Olympic Games after his two-year suspension was rescinded last Friday, May 9. He was banned by the Italian Athletics Federation last July for “having contact with” Italian doctor Carlo Santuccione, who has been linked to doping and is alleged to [...]
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Antonio Pettigrew is a Doper?
The list of Olympic dopers keeps on getting longer. From the New York Times: A government witness list filed Friday publicly identified Antonio Pettigrew, winner of a gold medal in the 4×400-meter relay at the 2000 Olympics, as a user of banned performance-enhancing drugs. Pettigrew, a four-time world champion from 1991 to 2001, was among [...]
Greek Weightlifting Team: Guilty Dopers or Innocent Victims?
Argh. Drugs. Bad news for weightlifting and the Olympic movement in general. Bad news for the Greek Olympic team in particular. A DPA Report: A second doping test on a group of 11 Greek weightlifters who initially tested positive for banned substances was also found to be positive, making the athletes unlikely competitors for the [...]
Tim Montgomery Arrested On Heroin Charges
This is just sad. Someone needs to help this guy. He’s American but if his free fall continues, he might end up like former Nigerian star athletes who, according to Olusuji Fasuba, end up begging in the streets. Associated Press: Former track star Tim Montgomery has been indicted on heroin distribution charges, the Virginian-Pilot of [...]
Note to Canadian TV: Don’t Mess With Rebagliati
Because he will sue you and you’ll end up paying him. From Reuters: Olympic gold-medal-winning snowboarder Ross Rebagliati has settled a lawsuit over a television series that he had accused of defaming him. The Canadian snowboarder reached the out-of-court settlement with CTV Television network and producers of the series, “Whistler,” according a statement released by [...]
