Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery should be free to compete in the Olympic Games since the drug allegations against them are not proven, IOC president Jacques Rogge said.
The athletics event gets underway at the Afro Asian Games on Tuesday, but the starting list of foreigners is still unknown.
The California laboratory said that no "positive test" results for steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs were found at the lab.
The American sprinter wants any samples obtained from the BALCO investigation to be tested for DNA first to ensure they belong to her.
The Olympic Games' central sport is tarnished and discredited even as officials have scrambled to defend its credibility.\n\n
The American sprinter will miss the Athens Olympic Games and all her results since December 15, 2000, have been disqualified.
The awards are presented annually to the outstanding U.S. male and female athletes.
Usain Bolt once again produced his best when it mattered most to retain his 100 metres world title and reassert his status as the number one sprinter on the planet at a rocking Bird's Nest Stadium on Sunday night.
: The European 100 metres champion failed a test for the new designer steroid THG
The European 100 metres champion was banned for two years on Tuesday after failing a test for the new designer steroid THG.
Lewis in full flow was the finest sight in track and field for more than a decade.
The double world sprint champion and five other American athletes tested positive for the stimulant modafinil.
Both athletes are involved in the ongoing doping investigations.
Anju George, Anil Kumar and J J Sobha won gold medals as India scooped up nine medals from athletics.
For the first time Afghanistan women will be able to participate in the Olympic Games.
Jones's lawyer Joseph Burton had accused the USADA and the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) of creating a "witch-hunt."
The Namibian was regarded as one of the great African sprinters but he never won an Olympic title in his career.
Following the rise in outsourcing of manufacturing of auto components to India by global auto majors, German auto giant DaimlerChrysler has placed a Rs 100 crore worth order with Sigma Vibracoustic India Ltd for supplying anti-vibration components.
The IOC said that the disciplinary commission will have "the right to ask for disclosure of any and all documents, for the hearing of witnesses and experts if necessary".
Promising sprinter Dutee Chand bagged her second gold medal, winning the women's 200 metres, in a clean sweep of medals by Indians at the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on Friday.
'After I won the final I gave my father a call.' 'He said the family had followed my progress on TV and saw that I had won.' '"We are going to sleep now," he said.' 'I told him 'I am a world champion and you are going to sleep!'
It is the first time every athlete has been disqualified from a heat at a major championships.
A new theory suggests that having an affair might put the spark back in your marriage.
The ace high jumper could clear only 1.80 metres at the National athletics circuit meet.
The 25-year-old Kolkata-based athlete finished a poor fifth in a sub-par time of 23.43 seconds in the first round heat.
Jamaican sprinter Sherone Simpson, who tested positive for a banned substance last year, told a disciplinary panel on Tuesday that she saw no "red flags" before taking a supplement supplied by her trainer.
Five of the Jamaican sprinter's brothers have stepped on to the track as sprinters at some level.
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