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Shot-putter loses gold medal after positive drug testsupdated: Mon Aug 13 2012 08:15:00

The International Olympic Committee has stripped a female shot-putter from Belarus of her gold medal after she tested positive for an anabolic agent during the London Olympics.

Expert: Gender testing 'imperfect' for female athletesupdated: Wed Aug 08 2012 09:04:00

Middle-distance runner Caster Semenya carried the South African flag last month in opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Great Britain feeling good about Olympicsupdated: Wed Aug 08 2012 06:46:00

Smiles on Olympic volunteers, trains running on time and all the Gold medals. Its so un-British Jim Boulden reports.

Judoka Delpopolo expelled from Olympics for positive marijuana testupdated: Tue Aug 07 2012 06:37:00

American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo has been thrown out of the Olympics after a failed drug test he blamed on inadvertently eating food that had been baked with marijuana.

Michael Phelps plans for the futureupdated: Tue Aug 07 2012 06:37:00

Olympic champion Michael Phelps take on rivals, why he's skeptical of the Yi Shiwen doping rumors and his future plans.

Oscar Pistorius: The bullet in the chamberupdated: Fri Sep 30 2011 06:26:00

He's "the fastest man on no legs," or -- as his sponsor's high-profile advertising campaign put it -- "the bullet in the chamber."

Pistorius on Championship experienceupdated: Fri Sep 30 2011 06:26:00

Double amputee Oscar Pistorius reflects on becoming the first Paralympian to compete at the World Championships.

Why Oscar Pistorius deserves to runupdated: Mon Aug 29 2011 05:25:00

A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on July 19, 2011, the fastest time recorded by an amputee. The ripple effects of this historic achievement may initiate a paradigm shift in how we view our bodies.

SI.com: Tim Layden: Bolt's DQ illustrates stupidity of false-start ruleupdated: Mon Aug 29 2011 02:06:00

DAEGU, South Korea -- Here was the moment, the only moment that truly matters beyond the four walls of a flagging sport. It was 8:41 Sunday night in a stadium set among green hillsides outside this industrial city. The seats were no more than two-thirds filled, but the halfhearted turnout of apathetic locals whose leaders simply bought a world championship event, is more than balanced by millions watching (or readying to watch later) on televisions and computer screens around the world.

SI.com: David Epstein: Caster Semenya remains a mysteryupdated: Wed Jul 27 2011 11:13:00

One year out from the London Olympics, Caster Semenya is perhaps the biggest wild card in the history of track and field. Will we see the Semenya of 2009 who looked unbeatable and destined to break the nearly three decade old 800-meter world record? Or has the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) forced her to undergo some feminizing medical treatment, in order to be allowed to compete as a woman, that will progressively slow her down? Semenya is simply an unknown, just as she was coming into the '09 world track and field championships.

SI.com: David Epstein: Pistorius' victory is inspirational -- and controversialupdated: Sat Jun 11 2011 22:49:00

If Henke and Sheila Pistorius ever unleashed upon their son, Oscar, the adage "you can grow up to be whatever you want," they might have crossed their fingers behind their backs and categorically eliminated certain professions.

SI.com: David Epstein: New study, for better or worse, puts Pistorius' trial in limelightupdated: Sat Jun 11 2011 22:49:00

Eighteen months ago, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius -- famously known as the "Blade Runner" because he was born without fibulas and runs on two crescent, carbon fiber lower legs -- made global headlines when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned a ban by the International Association of Athletics Federations and allowed Pistorius to compete against able-bodied runners in international competition.

Sprinter Semenya cleared to competeupdated: Tue Jul 06 2010 13:20:00

The IAAF says South Africa's Caster Semenya can keep competing as a woman after she underwent a series of gender tests.

Gender controversy continuesupdated: Sat Jan 16 2010 06:20:00

South African officials say South African track star Caster Semenya should keep her gold medal.

Runner's gender debate revisitedupdated: Fri Sep 11 2009 11:31:00

An Australian newspaper reports Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite. CNN's Robyn Curnow explains.

Gender row athlete: What is intersexuality?updated: Tue Aug 25 2009 06:28:00

The case of South African athlete Caster Semenya has sparked worldwide interest following reports that she will be tested by sporting officials to determine whether she is male or female.

'Blade runner' Olympic readyupdated: Thu Jul 17 2008 07:14:00

Double amputee Oscar Pistorius can run in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. CNN's Robyn Curnow reports.

Fortune: Spear Wars Think Olympic contests are heated? Check out the struggle between javelin makers and the bureaucrats who thwart them.updated: Mon Sep 06 2004 00:01:00

At three o'clock on a July afternoon in 1984, an Iron Curtain track star named Uwe Hohn thrilled an East Berlin crowd by throwing a javelin an astonishing 104.8 meters, or 343 feet. In a sport wher...

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