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Dumped sprinters in new hearing
11th December 2005, 21:22
GREECE sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, accused of dodging a drugs test at last year's Athens Olympics, face a second tribunal in February.
The Court of Arbitration of Sport said in an overnight statement that it will continue the session held at its Lausanne headquarters on February 22, 2006.
Kenteris, 200m gold medal winner in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and Thanou, 100m silver medallist in Sydney, were kicked out of the Athens Games after failing to turn up for drugs tests.
They have protested their innocence, claiming they had a motorcycle accident when rushing back to the Olympic village for a test.
Kenteris and Thanou were provisionally banned by athletics' ruling body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), but were cleared by an independent Greek athletics tribunal.
The IAAF then appealed to the CAS.
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