Belarus hammer throwers face new delay for doping hearing at CAS to win back Olympic medals

October 23rd, 2009 Speedskater Pechstein hopes for doping appealLAUSANNE, Switzerland — Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein is confident about winning her appeal of a two-year doping ban. The 37-year-old German emerged smiling from a two-day hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, where she is challenging a ban imposed by the International Skating Union.

October 23rd, 2009 German's Pechstein 'optimistic' on doping appealLAUSANNE, Switzerland — Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein says she is optimistic about winning her appeal against a two-year doping ban. Pechstein attended a hearing Friday at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

October 8th, 2009 Decision on Jones' relay partners expected Dec. 18COPENHAGEN — A senior IOC official says sport's highest court will decide in December whether Marion Jones' U.S.

September 22nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian swimming legend and Olympian John Konrads could scarcely believe when he was told that a gold and two bronze medals, which he won in the 1960 Rome Olympics and were stolen 24 years back, had been found in a shoe box. Konrads was last week reunited with the Olymic medals that were stolen from his Brighton home in 1985 after they were listed for sale on eBay.

August 26th, 2009 Italian cyclist Di Luca faces doping hearingROME — Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca denied he took a banned substance as he faced questions Wednesday from the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor. The 33-year-old former Giro d'Italia winner arrived at the Stadio Olimpico flanked by two lawyers, who said after the one-hour session that there would be another hearing in a month to give the defense more time to prepare.

August 19th, 2009 Beijing medals not at risk in Germany doping probeLAUSANNE, Switzerland — The IOC says equestrian medals from the Beijing Olympics will not be affected by an investigation into alleged doping violations by Germany's team. The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) commissioned a report into claims that some members of the German team — which topped the equestrian medal table at the games — used banned drugs and medical treatments on their horses.

August 14th, 2009 IOC to speed up decision on Marion Jones' medalsBERLIN — The IOC has agreed to speed up the process of determining whether to redistribute the medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The decision was reached on Friday at a joint meeting of the International Olympic Committee executive board and the council of the International Association of Athletics Federations.

August 10th, 2009 5 Jamaican athletes cleared of dopingKINGSTON, Jamaica —Five Jamaican athletes were cleared Monday of doping at their national championships two months ago after the country's anti-doping panel failed to determine whether the banned substance was on the prohibited list. The athletes reportedly tested positive for the stimulant methylhexanamine.

July 27th, 2009 Olympic 1500-meter champ Ramzi faces doping panelLAUSANNE, Switzerland — Olympic 1,500-meter champion Rashid Ramzi faced a disciplinary hearing Monday to explain why he tested positive for the blood-boosting drug CERA after the Beijing Games. The Morocco-born Bahraini was one of five athletes whose cases were heard by the International Olympic Committee panel.

July 16th, 2009 WADA asks court to ban cyclist Hamilton for lifeLAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Anti-Doping Agency has asked the sport's highest court to ban U.S. cyclist Tyler Hamilton for life for doping.

July 8th, 2009 AP source: Backup samples positive for 5 OlympiansLONDON — Backup "B'' sample tests came back positive for 1,500-meter gold medalist Rashid Ramzi and four other athletes accused of blood doping at the Beijing Games, an Olympic official with knowledge of the results told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The athletes tested positive for the blood-boosting drug CERA in retests of their Beijing "A'' samples earlier this year.

July 4th, 2009 HAMBURG - The German Olympic Committee (DSOB) Saturday reacted with caution to a doping ban on the nation's most successful Winter Olympian, speed skater Claudia Pechstein. Pechstein, 37, was banned for two years by the ruling body ISU because she had abnormal blood values and abnormal changes of blood values at several tests, most notably at the allround World Championships in February in Norway.

July 3rd, 2009 Speedskating's Pechstein gets 2-year doping banLAUSANNE, Switzerland — Olympic speedskating great Claudia Pechstein of Germany was banned for two years because of blood doping Friday and will miss the 2010 Vancouver Games. The International Skating Union said Pechstein's blood profile indicated abnormal changes in a series of tests, in particular after the World Allround Championships in February.

June 24th, 2009 Isabell Werth suspended after horse's doping testBERLIN — Isabell Werth of Germany, a multiple Olympic dressage gold medalist, has been suspended after her horse tested positive for a banned substance. Germany's National Equestrian Federation said Wednesday that Werth's horse, Whisper, tested positive for fluphenazine, a sedative, at an international tournament in Wiesbaden on May 30.

June 9th, 2009 Sport's high court hears Polish canoeist's appealLAUSANNE, Switzerland — Polish canoeist Adam Seroczynski went to sport's highest court Tuesday trying to overturn his disqualification from the Beijing Olympics for doping. Seroczynski arrived for a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport to help present his appeal against a ruling by the International Olympic Committee last December.