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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: seattletimes. nwsource.com (197 articles) washingtonpost.com (161 articles) boston.com (152 articles) baltimoresun.com (113 articles) latimes.com (112 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (108 articles) sfgate.com (108 articles) cbc.ca (108 articles) dallasnews.com (88 articles) ft.com (60 articles) suntimes.com (59 articles) nypost.com (55 articles) abcnews.go.com (55 articles) timesonline.co.uk (46 articles) cnn.com (21 articles) foxnews.com (15 articles) business. timesonline.co.uk (14 articles) wired.com (12 articles) cbsnews.com (12 articles) sportsillustrated. cnn.com (4 articles) nature.com (3 articles) money.cnn.com (2 articles) haaretz.com (2 articles) opinion. latimes.com (2 articles) travel. timesonline.co.uk (2 articles) blogs.ft.com (2 articles) weblogs. baltimoresun.com (1 article)	Sprinter Pettigrew gives up gold medal from Sydney Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English Antonio Pettigrew gave up his Olympic gold medal Tuesday, two weeks after the sprinter admitted in court that he cheated to win at Sydney in 2000. (article 1) This marked the first significant setback at trial for the federal government in its nearly five-year investigation stemming from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative doping scandal. (article 5) Graham, who coached former star sprinters Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, is the second person from the BALCO scandal to be convicted at trial. (article 5) Also yesterday, IRS agent Erwin Rogers testified that Justin Gatlin, the defending Olympic 100-meter champion and another former Graham athlete, worked undercover for the government and secretly recorded several telephone calls with Graham. (article 7) During last month's trial involving former track coach Trevor Graham, Pettigrew came clean about using banned substances EPO and human growth hormone from 1997 to 2003. (article 3) The 40-year-old, who won gold in the 400m at the 1991 World Championships, admitted doping during last month's trial of former coach Trevor Graham. (article 2) The disgraced athlete was part of the US team that beat Roger Black, Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and Mark Richardson into second place in Athens. (article 2) Pettigrew, Chris Jones, Tyree Washington and Jerome Young edged out the British quartet by just 0.18 seconds. (article 2) Other summaries about this story: Summary from United States, from articles in English (5 articles) [compare] Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (2 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords Pettigrew, medal, Doping, Olympic, Graham Source articles Sprinter Pettigrew gives up gold medal from Sydney (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 332 words) Pettigrew given two-year dope ban (BBC News, 06/03/2008, 356 words) Relay champ Pettigrew to give back Olympic gold (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/03/2008, 566 words) 'Shocked' Michael Johnson to return Olympic relay medal (dallasnews.com, 06/03/2008, 575 words) Track coach Trevor Graham convicted in BALCO investigation (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 372 words) Sport in brief: Antonio Pettigrew, Ramnaresh Sarwan, James Lowes (timesonline.co.uk, 06/04/2008, 290 words) Once he began taking the banned substances, Pettig... (baltimoresun.com, 06/04/2008, 441 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu