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The first positive results came in the 1992 Barcelona Games with five athletes found to have used banned substances. [14] The 2000 Sydney Games saw fourteen athletes return a positive test, ten of which were in the powerlifting competition.
The two major Axis powers of World War II, Germany and Japan, were suspended from the Olympics, although Italy, their former ally, participated. [7] German and Japanese athletes were allowed to compete again at the 1952 Olympics. The Soviet Union was invited but chose not to send any athletes, sending observers instead to prepare for the 1952 ...
The 2002 Olympic Winter Games bid scandal was a scandal involving allegations of bribery used to win the rights to host the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Prior to its successful bid in 1995, the city had attempted four times to secure the games, failing each time.
2002 Salt Lake City Olympics Scandal. At the turn of the millennium, official representatives for Salt Lake City were snared in a bribery scandal that nearly caused the demise of the 2002 Winter ...
Lochtegate is the colloquial name of the scandal involving United States swim team members Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz, and Jack Conger during the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bela Karolyi coached Nadia Comaneci to the first Olympics perfect 10 and Mary Lou Retton to all-around gold. ... He and wife Martha largely disappeared from public view following the abuse scandal ...
1968 Olympics Black Power salute; 1980 Summer Olympics boycott; 1984 Summer Olympics boycott; 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal; 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal; 2012 Olympics one minute of silence campaign; 2016 Summer Olympics ticket scandal; 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony; 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
FIFA docked six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s soccer tournament and banned three coaches for one year each on Saturday in a drone-spying scandal. The stunning swath of ...