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Nine-time Finnish Olympic gold medallist Paavo Nurmi was found to be a professional athlete and banned from running in the Games. The main orchestrators of the ban were the Swedish officials that were the core of the IOC bureaucracy, including IOC president Sigfrid Edström, who claimed that Nurmi had received too much money for his travel ...
In the late 1990s, the IOC took the initiative in a more organized battle against doping, leading to the formation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999. The 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that the effort to eliminate performance-enhancing drugs from the Olympics is not over, as several medalists in weightlifting and cross-country skiing were disqualified due ...
The United States cycling team won several medals at the 1984 Olympics, men and women, although they did so without the Eastern Bloc nations competing as they boycotted the games. [ 33 ] Following the success of the Olympics, as well as the success of LeMond who won the Tour de France on three occasions and Andy Hampsten who won the 1988 Giro d ...
The 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for banned substances before the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, during a national swim meet in China with no Americans in the competition.
The intimacy ban that was put into place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been lifted for the upcoming Paris Olympics—and 300,000 condoms are being provided for athletes.
A potentially explosive doping scandal rocked Olympic swimming Saturday after revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers, including gold medalists and world record-setters, tested positive for a banned ...
Blood doping is the injection of red blood cells, related blood products that contain red blood cells, or artificial oxygen containers. This is done by extracting and storing one's own blood prior to an athletic competition, well in advance of the competition so that the body can replenish its natural levels of red blood cells, and subsequently injecting the stored blood immediately before ...
Tuesday's slate of swimming competitions for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games begins at 11 a.m. with the men's 800m freestyle, followed by the women's 400m final, featuring American swimmers Katie ...