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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Summer Britcher and Tucker West are the midpoint leaders at the USA Luge National Championships.Britcher has a slim lead over Emily Sweeney and Erin Hamlin after Fridays first two runs in the four-run event, while West is more than a half-second ahead of reigning junior national champion Jonny Gustafson and Taylor Morris in the mens championship.The final two runs in each competition will be held Saturday morning.Britcher is seeking her first national title, after finishing second behind Sweeney last season. West is in position for his second national title.I feel pretty good about the runs I had, Britcher said. I had some minor mistakes in both runs, but in a way, this is still race training for the World Cup later in the season and so I feel pretty good.Britchers two-run time at Mount Van Hoevenberg was 1 minute, 29.029 seconds. Sweeney, who is recovering from offseason wrist surgery and is slowed at the start because of that, finished two runs in 1:29.157. Hamlin, the reigning Olympic bronze medalist, clocked a combined 1:29.546.Wests time of 1:43.832 gives him a comfortable cushion over Gustafson (1:44.370) and Morris (1:44.598). West said the ice conditions Friday were pristine, which helped greatly.The track crew did a great job out here, West said.Two-time Olympian Chris Mazdzer is not in the competition. Hes one of the sliders invited to Pyeongchang, South Korea, this week to test the new track built there for the 2018 Olympics.Tandon Doss Jersey Store . Brett Kulak and Jackson Houck of the Vancouver Giants were each charged with assault causing bodily harm on Aug. 18, according to the B.C. court services. Paul Martha Jersey Store . With the short-handed Warriors needing help from someone -- anyone -- to stop a three-game skid, ONeal returned from right knee and groin injuries that had sidelined him for four games and put up season highs with 18 points and eight rebounds. 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The Raptors traded Rudy Gay, Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray to the Sacramento Kings on Monday, in exchange for Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes.LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Three female weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been stripped of gold medals from the 2012 London Olympics after failing retests of their doping samples.The Kazakh lifters were among eight athletes sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday after their stored samples came back positive for steroids.Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova have been stripped of the gold medals they won in the 53-kilogram, 63kg and 75kg divisions, respectively. All three tested positive for the steroid stanozolol, with Chinshanlos sample also containing oxandrolone.The IOC did not say whether the medals would be reallocated to other athletes. If that happens, Christine Girard of Canada would be elevated to silver in the 63kg class and could get gold if a failed doping test from a Russian lifter who was the original second-place finisher also results in a ban.Also Thursday, a female weightlifter from Belarus was stripped of a bronze medal. Marina Shkermankova had finished third in the 69kg class. Also disqualified were two other Belarusian lifters, a Russian hammer thrower and a Russian pole vaulter, none of whom won medals.The punishments for the Kazakh and Belarusian weightlifters are now set to trigger an automatic one-year ban from all international weightlifting competitions for the two countries under International Weightlifting Federation rules imposing automatic bans if at least three of a countrys athletes fail Olympic retests.The IOC said a case against a Ruussian wrestler who won a silver medal was dropped because he died in a car crash three years ago.dddddddddddd The IOC disciplinary commission said Besik Kudukhovs result will stand because it cannot rule on doping cases involving the dead.The situation is unsatisfactory as it implies that Olympic results which would probably have had to be reviewed will remain uncorrected, the commission noted in its ruling.The IOC stores doping samples for 10 years so they can be reanalyzed when improved testing methods become available.There have been a total of 98 positive cases recorded in recent retests of samples from the London Games and 2008 Beijing Olympics, with almost half of the cases in weightlifting.Weightlifting has long struggled with doping but is under particular pressure over the retests. In one event from 2012, six of the top 10 finishers have tested positive.In August, IWF president Tamas Ajan told The Associated Press he hoped the sport would be allowed to stay on the Olympic program for future Games despite its struggles with steroids and said he wanted to ban leading countries from the sport for a year in a process he likened to shock therapy.The retests have also implicated a Kazakh gold medalist who is the sports biggest star on social media. Ilya Ilyin has failed retests from both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, though the IOC has not yet finished processing those cases. ' ' '