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Olympic doping

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August 10, 9:58 PM

by Karin Malchow, Scam Examiner

AP/Thomas Kienzle

On August 10, Bob Costas asked President Bush a long, convoluted question about performance-enhancing drugs in the Olympics and baseball, ending with "How do you, as an American, trust the integrity of the sports you watch?"

President Bush started his response with "Let's just talk about baseball."

Don't want to suggest doping controversy at the Olympics. So far, Russian athletes have been accused of urine sample substitution; Bulgarian weightlifters withdrew; Greek, Italian, Romanian, and Indian athletes have tested positive and medals from prior U.S. wins have been stripped. We're a few days into the Beijing Olympics.

How do you, as an American, trust the integrity of the sports you watch? ( polls)

For Olympic updates: Sports Examiner Paula Duffy has been publishing Olympics news.

Topics: Beijing Olympics , doping , President Bush , Bob Costas

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The Big Beijing Ticket Scam

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August 7, 11:45 PM

Beijing ticket scalping may be small potatoes compared to the worldwide fraud allegedly conducted by Beijingticketing.com and other websites operated by XL&H, Ltd. linked to Terance Shephard, reportedly hiding in Barbados. At least... Read More
Topics: Beijing Olympics , ticket scam

Scalping in Beijing

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July 18, 11:53 PM

Chinese Olympic organizers hoped to discourage ticket scalping, allowing only one August 8 opening ceremony ticket per applicant. Also, an opening or closing ceremony ticket contains a security chip embedding the user's identification and... Read More
Topics: ticket scalping , Beijing Olympics