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10 Olympic scandals
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10 biggest scandals of the Olympic Games in history!
1. Marion Jones was the real star of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She managed to win three gold and two bronze medals. A few years later the athlete admitted having used illicit drugs. As a result, it not only stripped of medals, but was sentenced to six months in prison.
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2. Before the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 Bulgaria had to withdraw his entire team of weightlifters (eight men and three women), as all doping tests were positive. Among the athletes was Ivan Stoytsov, the world champion of 2007 and the "Golden Hope" in Bulgaria.
3. The French skaters Gwendal Peizerat and Marina Anissina "won" gold at the Olympic Games 2002 in Salt Lake City. Later Russian mobster Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov was accused of bribing judges, which led to a change in the rules for judges at the next Olympics.
4. At the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin displeased, performing in costumes of Australian Aborigines. Many thought it was disrespectful to their culture.
5. Sarah Milner Symonds has recently appeared in the center of the scandal, sold his Olympic torch through the Internet over 200 thousand. Euro
6. American athlete Jim Thorpe won gold medals for the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, but lost them after it became aware of his involvement in baseball games for money. Then at the Olympics could act only amateurs. In 1983 athlete medals returned.
7. Canadian Ben Johnson was the fastest man in the world at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, but was soon stripped of the gold medal athlete, because it was proven that he used steroids.
8. The Greek sprintersha Katerina Tana, Olympic medalist in 2000, before the Olympics in 2004 staged accident not to pass a drug test.
9. The young Chinese gymnasts have to train for eight hours a day, six days a week in a special sports school, located in Hefei City, Anhui Province. They are slaves of sport.
10. Rare scandal can be compared with it. American figure skater Tonya Harding hired people to knee broke her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Mercenaries beat rival telescopic baton, miraculously without hitting the kneecap. Despite the fact that Kerrigan escaped with only bruises, she co-starred with the competition. When all was revealed, Harding was disqualified for life.
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1. Marion Jones was the real star of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She managed to win three gold and two bronze medals. A few years later the athlete admitted having used illicit drugs. As a result, it not only stripped of medals, but was sentenced to six months in prison.
10 foto
Source: «Yahoo.sports»
2. Before the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 Bulgaria had to withdraw his entire team of weightlifters (eight men and three women), as all doping tests were positive. Among the athletes was Ivan Stoytsov, the world champion of 2007 and the "Golden Hope" in Bulgaria.
3. The French skaters Gwendal Peizerat and Marina Anissina "won" gold at the Olympic Games 2002 in Salt Lake City. Later Russian mobster Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov was accused of bribing judges, which led to a change in the rules for judges at the next Olympics.
4. At the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin displeased, performing in costumes of Australian Aborigines. Many thought it was disrespectful to their culture.
5. Sarah Milner Symonds has recently appeared in the center of the scandal, sold his Olympic torch through the Internet over 200 thousand. Euro
6. American athlete Jim Thorpe won gold medals for the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, but lost them after it became aware of his involvement in baseball games for money. Then at the Olympics could act only amateurs. In 1983 athlete medals returned.
7. Canadian Ben Johnson was the fastest man in the world at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, but was soon stripped of the gold medal athlete, because it was proven that he used steroids.
8. The Greek sprintersha Katerina Tana, Olympic medalist in 2000, before the Olympics in 2004 staged accident not to pass a drug test.
9. The young Chinese gymnasts have to train for eight hours a day, six days a week in a special sports school, located in Hefei City, Anhui Province. They are slaves of sport.
10. Rare scandal can be compared with it. American figure skater Tonya Harding hired people to knee broke her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Mercenaries beat rival telescopic baton, miraculously without hitting the kneecap. Despite the fact that Kerrigan escaped with only bruises, she co-starred with the competition. When all was revealed, Harding was disqualified for life.
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