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Cheating at the Paralympic Games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) manages the events. Testing for performance-enhancing drugs has become increasingly strict and more widespread throughout the Games, with powerlifting seeing the most positive results.
The referee, Ishanguly Meretnyyazov of Turkmenistan, never scored a count in each of the six knockdowns and let the fight continue. Meretnyyazov claimed they were slips, and even fixed Abdulhamidov's headgear during the affair. Abdulhamidov had to be helped to his corner following the round. The fight was scored 22–17 in favour of Abdulhamidov.
Cheating at the Paralympic Games – in the 2000 Summer Paralympics, athletes from Spain competed and won the gold medal in the Basketball ID event despite the majority of players not having an intellectual disability. The fallout from this scandal saw all events for athletes with intellectual disabilities removed from the next two Summer ...
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Paralympic rower Giacomo Perini has been accused of cheating and stripped of his bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Games, allegedly due to one small and easily avoidable mistake The Italian athlete ...
In USA’s final swimming event of the night, Grace Nuhfer picked up a silver in the women’s 100 butterfly S13 for her first Paralympic medal with a time of 1:03.88.
Cheating at the Paralympic Games; Concerns and controversies at the 2012 Summer Paralympics; Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Paralympics; COVID-19 cases at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics; COVID-19 cases at the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Paralympics
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can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals can be stripped (i.e., rescinded).