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Prosecutor: Greek Olympians Should Be Convicted in Doping Scandal
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- A prosecutor here called today for the conviction of two former Greek sprinters for staging a motorcycle accident and then lying about it to avoid a doping test at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, both medalists at the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, are accused of fabricating the mishap hours after failing to appear for scheduled drug tests at the Athens Olympic Village in August 2004. The drama that surrounded Greece's premier Olympians cast a pall over the games' opening ceremony. Kenteris, the surprise Olympic gold medalist in the ...
Olympics Choreographer Says His Crayon Paintings Reveal Faces From 'Another Dimension'
By David Moye - AOL NewsIt's the goal of every artist to have people view their paintings, but what happens when the paintings start watching you? It sounds bizarre, but crayon artist Doug Jack says that for the past few months, mysterious faces have been showing up in his paintings and staring at him. The faces aren't intentional. Jack says they pop up inexplicably in his works, which he creates by melting crayons on pieces of glass with a torch using MAPP gas and a lazy Susan. ...
Iran Threatens to Boycott London Olympics Over 'Zion' Logo
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- When the logo for the London 2012 Olympics was unveiled four years ago, critics slammed the sign as a crime against design, with some saying the graffiti-style scrawl resembled a swastika and others arguing it looked like Lisa Simpson engaging in a sex act. Now the Iranian government has belatedly joined the critical conversation, claiming that the jagged 2012 motif actually spells out the word "Zion." Authorities in Tehran this week handed a formal complaint to the International Olympic Committee, warning that Iranian athletes might stay away from the games unless the logo is ...
ExtenZe Explainer: All About LaShawn Merritt's Male Enhancement Pills
By Katie Drummond - AOL News
(Oct. 19) -- LaShawn Merritt has admitted to seeking a pharmaceutical performance boost -- but not on the racing track. Instead, the Olympic champion sprinter has been suspended from competition for doping himself with a "male enhancement" product called ExtenZe. Merritt, who reigns supreme as the top Olympian and world champion in the 400-meter sprint, faces a 21-month suspension instead of the usual three years handed down for steroid abuse. An arbitration panel Monday made the decision to ease Merritt's punishment, because his ingestion of performance-enhancing substances was deemed ...
Monkey Guards, Condom Clogs: 7 Bizarre Moments From the Commonwealth Games
By Matthew Hall - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- The 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi made more news for the bizarre mishaps that surrounded the event than any achievement in sport. But Indian officials are still holding onto their dream of one day hosting the Olympics. "I have a dream of bringing the Olympics, but when, I don't know," Suresh Kalmadi, chief organizer of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, said Tuesday. It seems unlikely that the Olympians would want a replay of the chaos that clouded the just-ended Commonwealth Games. Unfortunate occurrences ranged from dirty accommodations to snakes in the athletes' village and ...
Will Israeli Soccer Team Be Banned Over Country's Treatment of Palestinian Players?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- The head of European soccer's governing body, Michel Platini, says Israel may be banned for limiting the movement of Palestinian athletes, reports the Israeli daily Haaretz following accounts of Platini's statements in the Arab press. "We accepted Israel into Europe and it must abide by the laws and regulations which require freedom of movement for players," said the Union of European Football Associations chief. "If Israel does not do this, it will bear the serious consequences and it is liable to be thrown out of Europe. (Because of the hostilities between Israel and the Arab ...
Last Days of the 'World's Greatest Athlete'
By Chris Epting - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- Jack Thorpe, one of three remaining sons of Jim Thorpe, thought by many to be the world's greatest athlete, is suing Jim Thorpe. Don't be confused. He's not suing his famous father, who passed away in 1953. Rather, he's suing the town of Jim Thorpe, Pa., to have his father's remains transferred to a family burial ground in Pottawatomie County, Okla., near where the famed athlete was born. The strange scenario is a result of a decision Jim Thorpe's third wife, Patricia, made after the star athlete's death. She first tried to have Thorpe laid to rest in Oklahoma. Transcendental ...
Jennifer Capriati 'Possibly' Overdoses
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyThe celebrity website TMZ.com is reporting that former tennis star Jennifer Capriati was treated for a "possible" overdose in a Florida hospital on Sunday. (Oh, the lawyerly wiggle room the word "possible" provides.) Capriati won three Grand Slams and an Olympic gold medal in 1992. Despite those achievements, her career didn't live up to the hype that began in her early teenage years. In 1994, she was arrested for marijuana possession. (A year or so later I smoked pot with her when Capriati came to my college to visit a tennis academy friend; she was kind, if guarded.) Drug use may have been ...
2018 Winter Olympics Finalist Cities Announced
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyThe International Olympic Committee announced today the three finalist cities for the 2018 winter Olympics. They are (surprise!) the only three cities to apply: Pyeongchang, South Korea; Munich, Germany; and Annecy, France. The applicant field for the 2018 Winter Games was the smallest in 30 years, perhaps because of the enormous price tag for holding the event and the little return on investment. For host cities, construction booms to supply facilities for the games, but afterward many of the new structures sit empty and unused. "There has never been an Olympic Games that has made a ...
Why Olympic Mascots Are Always So Awful
By Joe Keohane - AOL News(May 20) -- Back in 2007, the body responsible for planning London's 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics discovered there were two slight problems concerning the Olympic logo they had unveiled. One was that a televised sequence involving the logo was triggering epileptic seizures and had to be forthwith pulled from the air. The other was that, on the whole, the logo is an incoherent wreck resembling a cross between a discarded Keith Haring work and a heap of ruined Tetris blocks. And it cost 400,000 pounds to make. You would think after that, the rest of the games' marketing campaigns would ...
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