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What Athletes Have Said About Hooking Up in the Olympic Village Through the Years Alonso, 20, failed to advance to the women’s 100m butterfly semifinals on July 27 and subsequently announced her ...
On August 11, the International Olympic Committee announced that the bronze medal in the floor exercise would go to Bărbosu, thus leaving Chiles without an individual Olympic medal. [18] [19] Some athletes have had medals taken away from them for different methods of cheating before physically getting on to the medal podium, such as American ...
News broke on Monday, August 5, that the 20-year-old athlete from Paraguay was allegedly kicked out of the Olympic Village after “creating an inappropriate atmosphere,” according to the head ...
Nine-time Finnish Olympic gold medallist Paavo Nurmi was found to be a professional athlete and banned from running in the Games. The main orchestrators of the ban were the Swedish officials that were the core of the IOC bureaucracy, including IOC president Sigfrid Edström , who claimed that Nurmi had received too much money for his travel ...
On the morning of August 14, 2016, Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen claimed that they and teammates Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger were robbed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the 2016 Summer Olympics after armed men showing a "police badge" allegedly forced them out of their taxi at gunpoint in the early morning hours.
One week before the Opening Ceremony, the 19-year-old captain of Japan’s women’s gymnastics team has been sent home after she admitted to underage smoking and drinking. According to The Japan ...
The victory earned D'Arcy selection for the Olympics and was the tenth fastest time ever recorded in the event. The 2009 Australian Swimming Championships held in March in Sydney, which are used to select the Australian swimming team for the 2009 World Championships , D'Arcy broke his own Australian Record in the 200 m butterfly in the final ...
The IOC officially banned Russia from competing in the Games due to a massive, sophisticated state-run doping regime that cheated dozens of athletes at the 2014 Olympics and Paralympic Games ...