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8226; Two Greek-American baseball players, neither of them named as yet, tested positive for other substances. 8220;It is 100 per cent true that the two Greek-Americans have failed a first drug test,8221; said a spokesman for a team assembled mostly from players in the North American leagues with Greek ancestry.
8226; Swiss cyclist Oscar Camenzind was also named and barred after testing positive for EPO. The Swiss Olympic Association said in a statement that the 1998 world road race champion had agreed to withdraw from the Games after being notified of the result of a urine test conducted in training last month.
8226; 8220;Hands up, I did it,8221; Irish 10,000 metres runner Cathal Lombard was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview after admitting taking the banned drug EPO erythropoietin.
8226; Spanish daily El Mundo reported that canoeist Jovino Gonzalez had also tested positive for EPO and been dropped from the team.
