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Doping-IAAF denies prior knowledge of Italian Schwazer's doping
ReutersBy Karolos Grohmann June 19 (Reuters) - The world athletics body (IAAF) on Wednesday denied that it had any prior knowledge or evidence of Italian 2008 Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer's doping practices before he was caught with a positive...Tags: Italy, World Anti-Doping Agency, Track and Field, The New York Times, Beijing Games
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IAAF denies prior knowledge of Italian Schwazer's doping
Reuters(Reuters) - The world athletics body (IAAF) on Wednesday denied that it had any prior knowledge or evidence of Italian 2008 Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer's doping practices before he was caught with a positive test last year. Schwazer, who was...Tags: Italy, World Anti-Doping Agency, Track and Field, The New York Times, Beijing Games
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Cycling-Giro stage winner Santambrogio fails EPO test
ReutersPARIS, June 3 (Reuters) - Italian Mauro Santambrogio has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) at last month's Giro d'Italia, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Monday. The UCI...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Giro d'Italia, Cycling, Sports, International Cycling Union
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Giro stage called off after heavy snow overnight
ReutersPONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (Reuters) - Heavy snow forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello. "Due to adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on the stage route in its entirety,...Tags: Italy, Landforms, Giro d'Italia, Australia, Colombia
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Cycling-Giro positives do little to help public perception
ReutersBy Alison Wildey LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - For all the recent protestations cycling is moving on from its drug-ridden past, the public remains unconvinced and two positive tests during this month's Giro d'Italia will have done little to convince...Tags: Lance Armstrong, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Andre Greipel
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Giro stage called off after heavy snow
ReutersVAL MARTELLO, Italy (Reuters) - Heavy snow forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello and the route for the next day's stage was re-designed. Saturday's stage includes far fewer...Tags: Italy, Landforms, Giro d'Italia, Australia, Rigoberto Uran
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Cycling-Former Giro winner Di Luca tests positive for EPO
ReutersMay 24 (Reuters) - Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday. Italian Di Luca, who had a...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Giro d'Italia, Vincenzo Nibali, International Cycling Union
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Former Giro and Vuelta winner Menchov retires
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's former Giro d'Italia and Vuelta winner Denis Menchov has announced his retirement from cycling at the age of 35, local media reported on Monday. Menchov, Russia's best stage rider of the past decade, winning the Tour of...Tags: Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Cycling, Denis Menchov, Vuelta a España
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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet
Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health Treatments, Science and Technology, Amgen Inc., Biotechnology
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Supreme Court, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Genetics, Johns Hopkins University
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“Cycling High”: Inside the Lance Armstrong scandal
Channel Guide MagazineCycling High: Doping to Win on National Geographic Channel Sunday, April 21, at 7pm ET goes inside the doping scandal that brought down cyclist Lance Armstrong, looking at the science, eyewitness testimonies, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Report and... -
After many winters of discontent, the best of times for Kostner
LONDON, ONT. -- A decade ago, Carolina Kostner was the ingénue of the World Figure Skating Championships, a 16-year-old Italian who bounded around the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. like a frolicsome fawn as Michelle Kwan won her last of five world...
Tags: Italy, Awards and Prizes, Rentals, Washington, DC, Human Interest
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