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Greek sprint duo accept punishment
 Sprinters Kenteris, left, and Thanou will serve the rest of a two-year ban. MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have dropped their appeals of suspensions for missing doping tests before the 2004 Athens Olympics. They accepted the ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the tribunal rejected their application to have their bans lifted. Kenteris and Thanou breached rules when they missed three doping tests between July 27 and August 12, 2004, and failed to provide a urine and blood sample on Aug. 12, 2004, the eve of the Olympics. The runners, who had been provisionally suspended by the IAAF on December 22, 2004, will remain banned until December 22. After missing the drug tests on the eve of the Games, both athletes spent four days in a hospital after claiming they were injured in a motorcycle crash. They later withdrew from their events. The Greek track and field federation cleared them in March 2005 of deliberately evading the tests, saying they hadn't been properly notified. But the IAAF appealed to CAS in a bid to overturn the Greek ruling and impose minimum two-year bans. 
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