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The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history, both the Summer and Winter Games have been the subject of scandals, controversies and incidents. Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games.
The following is a list of stripped Olympic medals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the governing body of the Olympic Games , and as such, can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals can be stripped (i.e., rescinded).
SafeSport maintains a public list of people under sanction who are believed to threaten U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes and affiliated organizations. [6] [13] [12] Each name is removed after a sanction has run its course, often leaving no public record of the allegation and sanction. [6]
A convicted child rapist is no longer in the running for gold at the Paris Olympics. Netherlands beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde and his partner Matthew Immers were eliminated 21-16 ...
Dutch volleyball player Steven van de Velde’s debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics was met with audible boos from the crowd. 29-year-old Van de Velde, who was convicted for the rape of a 12-year ...
Steven van de Velde, then 19, was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in 2014.
[3] [4] The United States won its first medals in volleyball at the Los Angeles Games: a gold in the men's competition, and a silver in the women's. [5] [6] The People's Republic of China won the gold medal in the women's competition in Los Angeles, their first time participating in an Olympic volleyball competition. [7]
Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was convicted of raping a 12 year old girl, spoke out for the first time since controversy over his admittance into the Olympic Games.