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He had won two gold medals at the 2002 Winter Paralympics, but his medals were stripped after his positive drug test. [18] At the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Swedish curler Glenn Ikonen tested positive for a banned substance and was suspended for six months [19] by the IPC. He was removed from the rest of the curling competition but ...
He completed the preliminaries despite his injury, earning the highest single score of the qualifying round for his next dive and repeated the dive during the finals, earning the gold medal by a margin of 25 points. Louganis had been diagnosed HIV-positive six months prior to the games—a diagnosis that was not publicly disclosed until 1995 ...
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 ...
There are three cheating scandals unfolding right now in three different sports: chess, fishing, and poker, and they could each be the worst cheating scandal in the history of their individual sports.
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 ...
1994 Formula One cheating controversy; 2019 college admissions bribery scandal; Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics#Judging; Fisher and Schwartz cheating scandal; Fantoni and Nunes cheating scandal; List of Australian sports controversies; List of Philippine sports controversies; McLaren Report; Mitchell Report; Valve Anti-Cheat
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.
Several Japanese business executives and employees were arrested between August and October 2022 on suspicion of bribery.Former Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi was arrested on four separate occasions within that period of time after allegedly receiving money from several businesses in exchange for facilitating Olympic sponsorship contracts.