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  2. Amateur sports - Wikipedia

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    After the 1972 retirement of IOC President Avery Brundage, the Olympic amateurism rules were steadily relaxed, amounting only to technicalities and lip service, until being completely abandoned in the 1990s (In the United States, the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 prohibits national governing bodies from having more stringent standards of amateur ...

  3. Amateur Sports Act of 1978 - Wikipedia

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    It is an update to the previous Amateur Sports Act of 1978 that considers changes like the elimination of the amateurism requirement for participation in most international sports (the admission of professionals was caused by the extensive cheating of the Soviet Union that listed its best pros as soldiers and broke the Olympic rules), [5] [6 ...

  4. Amateur - Wikipedia

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    After the 1972 retirement of IOC President Brundage, the Olympic amateurism rules were steadily relaxed, amounting only to technicalities and lip service, until being completely abandoned in the 1990s (in the United States, the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 prohibits national governing bodies from having more stringent standards of amateur status ...

  5. When 2025 arrives, so will the end of the amateur athlete in ...

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    The last time amateurism came under such assault was in the 1980s, when the Olympics unwound the final remnants of pretending the vast majority of their athletes were anything other than full-time ...

  6. Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner for 1912 Olympic golds

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    Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 ... gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. ...

  7. Team USA Athletes Who Have Been Stripped of Olympic Medals ...

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    At the time, the Olympics had amateurism rules in place so pro athletes were forbidden from participating. Thorpe died in 1953 and 30 years later, the IOC restored his Olympic medals with replicas ...

  8. Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...

  9. International Olympic Committee - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the IOC held to the traditional rules regarding amateurism. [50] Near the end of the 1960s, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) felt their amateur players could no longer be competitive against the Soviet full-time athletes and other constantly improving European teams.