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The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history, both the Summer and Winter Games have been the subject of scandals, controversies and incidents. Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games.
Among particular Olympic Games, the 2008 Summer Olympics has the most stripped medals, at 50. Among Winter Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics has the most medals stripped with 13, three quarters of the Winter Olympics total. All but twelve of the stripped medals involve infractions stemming from doping and drug testing:
Possibly the most famous Olympic boycotts occurred in 1980 and 1984, due to the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. Iran and Albania are the only countries that boycotted both the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. Albania is also the only country that boycotted the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
The 24 medals won at the 2020 Summer Olympics mark the country's best-ever total medals result after the 1984 Games, surpassing the 22 medals won in 1996 and 2016, while also equalling the most number of gold medals won in 1992. [16] At the 1984 Summer Olympics, which were boycotted by the Soviet Bloc, Canada won 44 medals.
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.
As a result, she tied Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya's seven medals at the 1952 Summer edition for most medals won at a single Games by a female athlete. [13] Bermuda, Qatar and the Philippines won their nations' first Olympic gold medals. [14] Meanwhile, Burkina Faso, Turkmenistan and San Marino won their nations' first Olympic medals. [a ...
In 2024, the Russian Athleteics Federation cancelled Poistogova's results from July 2012 to October 2014 after analysing old samples. Poistogova stands to lose the Olympic 800m silver medal. [178] As of December 2022, the 2012 Summer Olympics has seen a record 40 Olympic medals stripped for doping violations. Russia is the leading country with ...
The 2020 Summer Olympics were held in Japan from 23 July to 8 August 2021 after being postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2,402 medals were won by 2,175 athletes in 339 events at the Games. [1]