Notable Summer Olympics scandals
The Badminton World Federation recently announced that eight female badminton players were disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for trying to lose matches and the IOC says a female gymnast from Uzbekistan has now been formally expelled after she tested positive for doping. Check out these other notable Summer Games scandals.
The Badminton World Federation recently announced that eight female badminton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia were disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for trying to lose matches.
The Badminton World Federation recently announced that eight female badminton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia were disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for trying to lose matches.
The IOC says female gymnast Luiza Galiulina from Uzbekistan has now been formally expelled after she tested positive for doping.
The expelled badminton players and gymnast from Uzbekistan aren’t the only Olympians who have been wrapped up in scandals and controversies.
Check out these other notable Summer Games scandals.
Voula Papachristou, 2012 Summer Olympics, London. Greek triple jumper Papachristou was banned from competing in the Olympics after posting a racist joke on Twitter.
Michel Morganella, 2012 Summer Olympics, London. The Swiss Olympic Committee made the men's soccer player the second athlete to be expelled from the Olympics for making racist comments on Twitter.
Ye Shiwen, 2012 Summer Olympics, London. After setting multiple world records and beating men's Olympic champion Ryan Lochte's split in the individual medley, the teen is facing accusations of using performance enhancing substances. She denies all allegations.
All Olympic Teams, Possibly Every Olympics Ever. There have been increasing reports about how the Olympic Village is a hotbed of sex, with Olympians hooking up all over the place. Michael Phelps and fellow swimmer Amanda Beard were rumored to be hooking up after the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Michael Phelps, 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing. Phelps was caught smoking marijuana at a Super Bowl party in Florida months after the 2008 Olympics. He later apologized and vowed it would never happen again.
Marion Jones, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney. Fans were crushed in 2007 when runner Marion Jones admitted to taking steroids before the 2000 Summer Olympics. She then surrendered her five medals from those Games. In 2008, Jones was sentenced to six months in prison for pleading guilty to lying to federal agents about her drug use, as well as for her involvement in check fraud.
2012 Summer Olympics, London. First, the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games were criticized for placing the Olympic cauldron in a particularly poor vantage point. Then LOCOG took some PR heat for extinguishing the flame to move the cauldron.
2012 Summer Olympics, London. Olympic tickets have been particularly difficult to come by in London, but at the same time, venues from swimming to soccer have been populated by an abnormally large number of empty seats. It’s difficult to reconcile those two realities and it’s proven to be an embarrassment for LOCOG officials and a source of great frustration for Olympic fans.
