Adam Nelson is an Olympic shot putter who won the silver medal at the 2000 games.

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The shot putter, Nadzeya Ostapchuk, was the first athlete to lose a medal in the 2012 Games due to doping.

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Nearly nine years after the Athens Summer Olympic Games, American shot putter Adam Nelson has been declared a winner at those games.

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Judy Oakes, a British shot putter who is vehemently against drugs in sport, was ranked 27th in the world at her peak in 1988.

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Novitzky was reminded of Conte again shortly before the Sydney Olympics, in 2000, when a shot-putter named C.

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American shot-putter Adam Nelson is out of Olympic competition after throwing three fouls.

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U.S. shot-putter Adam Nelson, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, is willing to try anything legal to win gold at this summer's games in Beijing.

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Remarkably Points earned his place at the Masters thanks to some help from his mother's putter as he finished one shot ahead of compatriot Billy Horschel and Sweden's Henrik Stenson.

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It was with the putter, though, that the Irishman really paved the way for his two-shot win over home favourite Sergio Garcia, averaging 26.5 putts a round on his way to a birdie count of 18 on the treacherous Valderrama greens.

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