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  2. Doping at the Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1990s, the IOC took the initiative in a more organized battle against doping, leading to the formation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999. The 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that the effort to eliminate performance-enhancing drugs from the Olympics is not over, as several medalists in weightlifting and cross-country skiing were disqualified due ...

  3. List of drugs banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency

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    While a few of the banned drugs are endogenous, that is they are normally produced in the human body, most of the banned drug are exogenous drugs chemically produced. These types of drugs were used extensively in Major League Baseball in the 1990s and early 2000s. [8]

  4. Doping in sport - Wikipedia

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    The first tests for athletes were at the 1966 European Championships and two years later the IOC implemented their first drug tests at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. [196] Anabolic steroids became prevalent during the 1970s and after a method of detection was found they were added to the IOC's prohibited substances list in 1975, [197 ...

  5. Olympics-IOC sanctions Romanian 2012 Games medallists over ...

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    The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped two Romanian weightlifting athletes of their medals from the 2012 Olympic Games and disqualified a third over the use of anabolic steroids.

  6. IOC suspends Russian Olympic Committee after it tried to ...

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    The athletes were not able to represent the country of Russia after it was banned from taking part due to a doping scandal. If the ROC remains suspended when the 2024 Paris Olympics begin, the IOC ...

  7. List of Olympic Games scandals, controversies and incidents

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    Rhodesia was banned from participating in the Olympics as the result of a 36 to 31 vote by the IOC held four days before the opening ceremonies. African countries had threatened to boycott the Munich games had the white-minority-ruled regime been permitted to send a team.

  8. Olympics: Which countries have been banned from the Games and ...

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    With the Olympics, comes controvery. Learn about why various countries have been banned over the years and which nation is banned from participating in the Tokyo Games.

  9. Doping in Russia - Wikipedia

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    It was the leading country in terms of the number of medals removed due to doping at the 2002 Winter Olympics (5 medals), the 2006 Winter Olympics (1 medal), the 2008 Summer Olympics (14 medals), the 2012 Summer Olympics (15 medals), 2014 Winter Olympics (4 medals) and the joint most at the 2004 Summer Olympics (3 medals) and the 2016 Summer ...