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Jamaican sprinter NESTA CARTER "appealed against the decision to strip him" and the Jamaican team including USAIN BOLT of Olympic Gold because of a positive drugs test. A retest of Carter's sample from the 2008 Games "was found to contain banned stimulant in January." He now "awaits a date for his case to be heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport" (BBC, 2/16). ... Czechoslovakian hockey int'l JOSEF AUGUSTA, who helped coach his country to three world hockey titles, died, aged 70. The Czech Hockey Federation said that Augusta died Thursday "after a long, serious illness" (AP, 2/16). ... Troubled swimming champion GRANT HACKETT is "sober and safe," his relieved father said, "after the Olympian was reported missing a day on from his dramatic arrest and release." Hackett's whereabouts "remained unknown" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 2/16).

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