Greek sprint stars get new court hearing

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Greek sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, accused of dodging a drugs test at last year's Athens Olympics, face another hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The CAS, world sport's top tribunal, said it lacked time to hear all the witnesses called over a two-day session at its Lausanne headquarters last week.

The date of the next hearing has yet to be scheduled.

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 IAAF, in December but they were cleared by an independent Greek athletics tribunal.

The IAAF then appealed to the CAS.

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Image: AFP/File Photo: Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris competes in a 100m race in June 2004.