The Chicago and New York marathons are offering $500,000 (pounds 270,000) to any American who wins the marathon. No American man has won the Olympic marathon since Frank Shorter in 1972, while the only American woman to finish in the top eight since the event began in 1984 is that year's winner, Joan Benoit.
l A Kenyan boxer has been barred from the Games after failing an out- of-competition drug test. The bantamweight David Munyasia tested positive for the banned stimulant cathine, a derivative of the illegal recreational drug Bangi, a leaf-like substance widely available in eastern Africa. Munyasia becomes the first athlete to be thrown out of the Games following a positive test in Athens.
North Korea, unable to find an athlete tall enough to march alongside the South Korean women's volleyball player Koo Min-jung in the opening ceremony, has chosen a team official instead, the 50- year-old former basketball player Kim Sung-ho South said yesterday.
l The Indonesian timber tycoon Mohammad `Bob' Hasan was expelled from the International Olympic Committee yesterday. Hasan, released on parole earlier this year after serving two-thirds of a six-year jail term for corruption, was expelled by 101 votes to three against.
The sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lanka's first Olympic medal- winner when she won bronze in the 200 metres in Sydney, has withdrawn from the Games due to a recurring leg injury.
l A 48-year-old former Greek javelin world-record holder, Sofia Sakorafa, has been told by the IOC that she will not be able to throw for Palestine at the Games "for technical reasons".
The cyclist Jobie Dajka has failed in his appeal against his exclusion from the Australian team after the Court of Arbitration in Sport ruled against him. The Commonwealth Games gold medallist in Manchester two years ago was dropped from the team after admitting lying to a doping inquiry.
l The former world cycling champion Oscar Camenzind, whose positive test for EPO was announced on Monday, has retired from the sport.
The Greek government has banned the sports ministers of Zimbabwe and Myanmar from the Games in accordance with European Union sanctions.
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