SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian went on trial Monday on charges he threatened to shoot down passenger jets with hand-held missiles and destroy a landmark Sydney building to spoil the Olympics.
Mehmet Akin Kayirici, 35, is accused of sending letters to the consulates of five countries threatening the games through terrorist attacks unless he was paid up to $100 million.
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OTTAWA -- The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) reports that a total of 700 domestic doping control tests were conducted during the third quarter of 2000 with 73 percent on an unannounced basis.
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SYDNEY (AP) -- Charges were dropped Monday against an Olympic volunteer who caused a security alert when he forged passes of top Australian athletes.
Giang Tung Tran, a 33-year-old volunteer in the main Olympic accreditation center, made the passes as souvenirs, his lawyer, Bart Vasic, said in court.
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ATHENS (AP) -- The chief organizer for the 2004 Olympics will stay on the job, ending reports she was planning to resign because of widespread disagreements with the government.
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki met with Premier Costas Simitis on Monday and said her only concern was for Greece to be prepared for the Olympics.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barry McCaffrey, the White House drug policy adviser for five years and a prominent critic of drug-testing programs in sports, is leaving his job to pursue work in the private sector.
McCaffrey had praised the IOC's new anti-doping efforts in Sydney, but urged increased vigilance for the Salt Lake City Games in 2002.
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