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This is the list of Olympic medals stripped by the IOC, the governing body of the Olympics. Stripped team medals are counted once each, regardless of the size of the team stripped or how many team members were disqualified, although a stripped team medal usually entails the return of multiple physical medals, one per team member.
The team finished fourth, but a year later the IOC disqualified both United States teams. [164] The bobsled events were marred by allegations of sabotage, after the steering on the United States sleds was reportedly tampered with. A truck driver later admitted to causing the damage by accidentally backing into the shed where the sleds were kept ...
Equine events began at the Olympics in 1900, when competitions in polo (considered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be a separate sport from the other equestrian events), vaulting, four-in-hand driving, mail coach driving, mixed hacks and hunters and three types of jumping (high jump, long jump and show-jumping) were held.
As of 8 August 2016 11,491 athletes [1] were registered to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.. All Olympic sports are signed up to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code [2] which operates on a strict liability principle, whereby an athlete is strictly liable for any adverse analytical finding from their urine or blood samples. [3]
The 1908 Olympics had just 3 polo teams, all representing Great Britain. The 1920 Games included a team from Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States, with Great Britain again winning the gold medal. It was not until 1924, after Argentina sent a team to Paris, that the gold changed hands. Argentina also won gold at the 1936 Olympic ...
The 39-year-old British athlete and six-time Olympic medalist will be able to compete once again in July 2025, as the ban is backdated to July 2024 when she was provisionally banned.
The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or have been suspended by a sports governing body for failure to submit to mandatory drug testing.
Disqualified (3 refusals, Stage D) DSQ – Saim Polatkan: Kismet Turkey-157.30 Disqualified (3 refusals, Stage D) DSQ – Gustaf Nyblaeus: Monaster Sweden-157.90 Disqualified (Horse fatality, Stage B) DSQ – Henri Pernot du Breuil: Boreal France-159.80 Disqualified (Withdrew, Stage D) DSQ – Nils Sæbø: Athlet Norway-159.80 Disqualified (3 ...