Hungarians fail to win back medals
 |  Annus' appeal to win back his Olympic gold medal has failed |
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BERNE, Switzerland -- Hungarian athletes Adrian Annus and Robert Fazekas have failed in their attempt to win back their gold medals from the Athens Olympics.
The two men heard on Friday that their appeal to the international Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had been turned down.
Annus, who provided negative samples before and after the competition, had his hammer throw gold medal taken away after failing to meet an IOC deadline to provide another urine sample before the end of the Games.
The IOC said that an analysis of the two urine samples the hammer thrower had provided "showed evidence of belonging to two different athletes, indicating possible tampering."
Fazekas was disqualified from the discus event for failing to produce enough urine for a drug test following competition and for leaving the drug testing room before providing a sample. He later complained that "psychological trauma" had prevented him from doing so.
In its written judgement, the CAS found that neither men had any "compelling justification" for failing to comply with the International Olympic Committee's anti-doping regulations.
The court said it would also be hearing a separate appeal from world athletics governing body, the IAAF, calling for a two-year ban for the two men.
Fazekas announced his retirement last November but changed his mind two days later when the Hungarian Federation banned him for just one year.
Annus retired soon after winning in Athens and initially refused to return his gold medal, doing so only after the IOC threatened to suspend Hungary's membership.
After the Olympic disqualifications Japan's Koji Murofushi was awarded the hammer gold and Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania the discus gold.
