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Hamilton can keep his Athens gold
 Hamilton wipes away a tear after his gold medal performance in 2004. LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- American cyclist Tyler Hamilton will keep his gold medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Tuesday. CAS rejected an appeal by the Russian Olympic Committee to strip Hamilton of his time-trial gold medal following a doping controversy and award it to Vyacheslav Ekimov. "Tyler Hamilton can retain the gold medal he won at the time-trial event in Athens and the ranking of this race is definitively confirmed," CAS said. Hamilton had edged Ekimov at the Athens Olympics, but an initial doping test led to suspicions the U.S. star had used a blood transfusion to boost his endurance. The International Olympic Committee abandoned its probe because Hamilton's backup specimen was mistakenly frozen, leaving too few red blood cells to analyze. Hamilton is currently serving a two-year ban for testing positive for blood doping at the Spanish Vuelta in September 2004. CAS, world sport's highest tribunal, upheld that two-year ban in February 
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