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Ten athletes in Greek weightlifting team deny doping charge

ATHENS, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Ten out of the 11 athletes on Greece's national weightlifting team accused of using illegal performance enhancing substances on Friday submitted a memorandum through their lawyer Babis Lykoudis in which they denied the charges, according to Athens News Agency.

The athletes had been summoned to testify before First-instance court public prosecutor Andreas Karaflos on Friday after they tested positive for banned substances in a doping test.

The 11th member of the national team that tested positive, a 25- year-old female athlete, has ...

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