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2009 European football match-fixing scandal; 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal – in July 2011, as part of a major match-fixing investigation by authorities in Turkey, nearly 60 people suspected to be involved with fixing games were detained by Istanbul Police Department Organized Crime Control Bureau and then arrested by the court. In ...
Richard McLaren published two reports in 2016 claiming that from "at least late 2011 to 2015" more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports, including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports, benefited from a doping cover-up. [191] As of 25 December 2015, 43 Russian athletes who competed in Sochi have been disqualified, with 13 medals ...
1980 Italian football scandal ("Totonero"): In May 1980, the largest match fixing scandal in the history of Italian football was uncovered by Italian Guardia di Finanza, after the spalling of two Roman shopkeepers, Alvaro Trinca and Massimo Cruciani, who declared that some Italian football players sold the football-matches for money ...
Sports can be a source of joy that brings people together, but it is not free from controversy. Here is a look at the biggest sports scandals of all-time. 20 biggest sports scandals of all time
From intentionally throwing games to using performance-enhancing drugs, here are some of the biggest scandals in U.S. sports history.
Pages in category "Sports controversies" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. ... List of sporting scandals; 0–9.
Injustice. The list goes on and on. The human nature of the athletes involved opens sports up to the constant possibility of controversy." type="spreadWord"% Some scandals are driven by financial ...
Olympic scandals go back as far as 1912 with Jesse Thorpe, who was stripped of his pentathlon and decathlon gold medals after it was revealed he played professional baseball three years prior. (At ...