the games are never short on drama
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
Olympic controversies in other words
doped athletes are protected by the
anti-doping agency of Russia rather than
suspended for this list we’re taking a
look at the most notorious instances of
cheating violence and political
maneuvering from both the summer and
winter games all of which generated
worldwide discussion and debate until
today she was thought to be a virtual
shoo-in for the Olympics this evening
the president of the US Figure Skating
Association said that Kerrigan must
compete in tomorrow’s initial program or
she will not be allowed on the team
we’re excluding tragedies like the
Munich massacre of 1972 and Atlanta’s
bombing in 1996 as there is little
dispute about the causes and results of
those incidents we know that a rock
concert was taking place we know that
there has been talk about an explosion
from a garbage can there’s been talk
that there was evacuation in the moments
before it number 10
boris honest janko’s magic pepe after
the elimination of the Soviet team as a
result of onishchenko disqualification
hopes began to revive as a distinguished
yet aging modern pentathlete and
respected figure in the Soviet Union 38
year old Boris on his chenko had a
considerable reputation to uphold in his
homeland the pressure to perform
particularly in the Cold War era of
sport was too much to bear however and
caused the former Army Major to cheat
eventually leading to his downfall
desperate to match his silver medal
performance of four years prior he
altered his a pay to register hits even
when he wasn’t making contact with his
opponent punch is registered when the
Foyle hip hits the opponent with the
force of at least 500 grams just as
quickly as this plot was discovered
Boris the cheat was stripped of all his
sporting honors and
personally reprimanded by Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev therefore suffering the
very fall from grace he was trying
desperately to avoid number nine Jim
Thorpe’s disqualification reportedly
dubbed the greatest athlete in the world
by the king of Sweden this legendary
all-rounder took gold in both the
pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912
Summer Games setting records that would
endure well into the 20th century there
must be something in the Thorpe legend
for people to still be talking about him
fifty years after he’s dead
the Native American and European
athletics is defined by tales of his
nonchalant excellence his winning the
high jump in mismatched shoes is one of
many classic anecdotes yet his feats
will always be tainted by the IOC s
so-called elitist and potentially racist
attempts to punish him for violating
their Victorian rules on amateurism
rules that white athletes apparently
frequently abused without consequence
far as I’m concerned he’s a simon-pure
athlete you mustn’t take those medals
away from him gentlemen you mustn’t
under serious pressure from Thorpe
supporters the IOC did eventually yield
on the subject by returning thorpes
medals in the early 1980s they were
presented to his seven surviving
children
number eight displacement in Beijing as
far back as the year 2000 Chinese
officials were implementing quote
environmental improvement projects a
fancy phrase for the systematic
demolition of Beijing’s impoverished
areas resulting in the displacement of
an estimated 1 and a half million people
for the 2008 Summer Games these people
have been forced out of their homes to
make way for profitable real estate
projects although the local government
claimed that they moved only between 6
and 15 thousand people all with ample
compensation numerous reports emerged
exposing the mistreatment of those
unwilling to shift by heavy-handed
police Beijing’s floating population
consisting of rural migrants the
homeless and other so-called
second-class citizens
were most at risk from this purported
social cleansing as the government took
the opportunity to further marginalize
these people for now many live in
neighborhoods curtain’d off by gray
concrete wolf built authorities say to
make Beijing prettier it was reported
that 40 billion dollars was spent on
Olympic or corporate infrastructure
while human rights were allegedly
blatantly ignored adding to an already
large list of controversies surrounding
the Beijing Games this area will be
destroyed that’s certain we just don’t
know when I thought that that would
happen before the games but apparently
it got delayed say for now we’ve been
left alone number 7 the blood in the
water match just a few weeks before this
water polo match Soviet tanks had
rumbled into Budapest to end a
revolution that would claimed the lives
of about 3000 Hungarians I was
considered to be from the foreign class
background and when the communist system
came into power here I had to find the
opportunity to make my way in the world
with the hopes of restoring their
country’s pride the Hungarian team
devised a plan to rile the Russians up
get physical and force them into rash
decisions a lot of people asked why it
is that way
and I think that water polo is simply in
our blood with Hungary leading four
nothing late in the game
the Russians decided to take matters
into their own hands
Hungarian player Ervin’s ador was
viciously struck in the eye sending the
hundreds of Hungarians in the crowd into
a frenzy that required police
intervention to end in a bittersweet
finish to their games the Hungarian team
took home the gold but they could never
escape the matches political subtext
forcing many team members to find refuge
in less oppressive lands the Hungarians
are declared for nothing winners the
semifinal showdown instantly makes
headlines across the globe
number six the Russian doping scandal
it’s almost spooky the women’s 800
meters a favorite event of the Russians
that is now under general suspicion
details of state-sponsored systematic
doping in Russia really came to light in
2014 but they were dramatically expanded
upon when a former Russian anti-doping
official Gregory Ruud chenkov provided
an insider’s look into a conspiracy that
forced him to flee to the US in fear for
his life according to Russian cap he
would feed the athletes these banned
substances vile alcohol exploiting the
increased access granted by their
hosting of the games competitors in
Sochi in 2014 were allowed to dope
without consequence while they’re
tainted urine samples were exchanged for
clean ones in covert operations carried
out by Ruud chenkov and other shady
experts it’s a fact that we cannot prove
doping among athletes through our
evaluation but we do have an indication
of how widespread doping is he claimed
that at least 15 medal winners from the
2014 Winter Olympics might be implicated
as a result of these elaborate
supposedly Kremlin sanctioned schemes
Russia was indefinitely suspended from
world sports events and many of its
athletes may miss the 2016 Summer
Olympics in Rio but pressure is building
to make Russia sanctions stick much
longer number 5 ben jonson doping for
canadians a classic where were you
moment
then the positive drug test the men’s
100 meters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
in Seoul may have been labeled the
dirtiest race in history but it was also
one of the most enthralling to watch
that year it was all about Ben Johnson
versus Carl Lewis six members of that
all-star lineup would end up implicated
in other doping controversies later in
their careers but it was Johnson the
world record holder after his nine point
seven nine second race who will forever
be defined by the steroid use he began
in 1981 the Canadian was open about his
long-term cheating and was rightly
stripped of his gold medal yet to this
day he is act to be the only one
punished when the other athletes also
failed drug tests come and run after me
Ben and right here he’s even made
conspiratorial claims declaring that the
IOC only selectively cracks down on the
pervasive doping culture in athletics
but even if Johnson’s allegations are
true we may never fully know regardless
if you like what happened Al’s to us
they the experience of that moment the
sort of the emotions that it that it
evokes are still there
number four Tonya Harding and Nancy
Kerrigan many of you will be unable to
forgive me for that it will be difficult
to forgive myself it’s no surprise that
a feature-length film about this
sensational incident is in the works
containing jealousy a hit man and an
unrelenting desire for sporting success
the tale is ready for a big-screen
adaptation large man 6 to 200 pounds um
you know came running out just kind of
crouched when he got to her hit her a
couple times with some type of weapon
after practice for a national
championship that was crucial to
determine the US Olympic figure skating
team a thug hired by Tonya Harding’s
ex-husband and bodyguard struck Nancy
Kerrigan in the leg
since she was essentially the poster
girl of the sport at the time the attack
was orchestrated to intentionally put
her out of the 94 Games branded as the
hard-working do anything for gold skater
Harding’s alleged knowledge of the
attack was soon exposed by the media
however she was still allowed to perform
at the Olympics
fortunately Kerrigan recovered from the
botched attack and landed the silver at
the Lillehammer games while Harding
placed eighth was fined received three
years of probation and never skated
competitively again but if she were here
today what would you want to say to her
about all of this
well if she’d love me I’d love to give
her a hug number three the u.s. boycotts
the Moscow Olympics the United States
Olympic Committee voted to boycott the
Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in
response to the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan beginning in 1979 US
President Jimmy Carter led an
international boycott that doomed his
period in office and triggered the
Soviet Union’s own Olympic boycott of
the LA Games four years later we did our
best to preserve the games in Moscow in
1980 and we have to just do to do the
same to preserve the games in 1984 in
Rosalie’s
while the reasons behind this action
were righteous and well supported the
u.s. enlisted the help of Muhammad Ali
and ultimately 65 nations joined up the
boycott did threaten the Olympic
movement by embroiling the games in the
political maneuvering of two world
powers
well I’m very disappointed but I feel
that it’s probably the only thing that
our country can do as a unit 25 angry US
athletes even sued the government for
denying them a dream they worked so hard
towards and yet Carter stuck to his
morals strengthening a stance that would
later be described by the Soviet Union
as quote anti Soviet hysteria you can
look anywhere around the globe and
you’ll find a problem where help is
needed where we could jump on a
bandwagon if you like and I think it’s
just a little unfortunate that Swift
chose now they limp it gains to have a
go at number two the Olympics Black
Power salute my head bowed my fist went
up in air it’s one of the most powerful
images of the
it’s century and a demonstration that
has transcended many sporting events and
achievements in the metal ceremony for
the 200-meter race at the 1968 Summer
Olympics Americans Tommie Smith and John
Carlos who were shoeless and had their
heads bowed each thrust one gloved hand
in the air Tommie Smith and John Carlos
his controversial demonstration stunned
the world Smith said that the salute was
meant to symbolize human rights for all
though it was taken differently by
others who believed it was actually in
support of black power both athletes
were expelled from the games and greeted
with hostility when they returned to the
states we always had the happy face in
the USA all across our chest to give
indication that everything is smooth in
America but in fact it wasn’t smooth
however despite the fact that they lived
in a climate where it was potentially
dangerous to be openly critical of the
establishment they stood by the
political statement claiming it was
their moral obligation to sacrifice
their individual reputations to send a
message to the millions watching at home
a lot of black people generally were
better off 10 15 20 years down the line
because they made that stance before we
unveil our top pick here are some
honorable mentions we eventually came to
know that through an Italian wiretap on
uzbeki thug enlisted the help of a
French skating official to favor the
Russian pair over the Canadians at an
American Olympics accusations at Salt
Lake City had bribed some IOC members
with cash gifts possibly even the
services of prostitutes so it could get
the 2002 Games
and second of all battle
crazy and the world-champion old quarter
then and this is the danger and deck is
down oh the world champion and one of
the favorites is now flat out on the
infield
number one the Nazi Olympics unbury
every other banner we saw there was a
swastika for two weeks in 1936 Berlin
the world was blinded by Nazi prosperity
and hospitality while Germany’s
precisely directed propaganda campaign
obscured the country’s anti-semitic
racist homophobic and expansionist
policies from view how can that Jew be
good enough to win the Olympics that I
would have had to be afraid for my life
I’m sure numerous nations that would go
on to form the Allied powers were
present for every carefully manufactured
demonstration of fervent German pride
while arguments stating the
participation in the games would be
tantamount to an endorsement of fascism
went unheard and so despite mentions of
a potential boycott the games went on as
planned medals were even won by some
Jewish and black athletes but it was
Hitler who truly prospered the Reich
Chancellor managed to turn the games
into an advertising campaign for his
administration with some asserting that
he successfully manipulated European
powers into a complacency that would
allow the Nazi regime to spread across
Europe in the years to come everybody
knew everybody knew early on exactly the
kind of regime Nazi Germany was so much
so that for the first time in the
history of the old modern Olympic Games
there was talk about boycotting these
games do you agree with our list
what infamous Olympic moments do you
think were the most controversial as for
seven year old young PE she reportedly
says that she’s just honored to have had
a role in the opening ceremony in the
first place for more sporting top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com Brazilian government
health workers are investigating more
than 4,000 suspected microcephaly cases
that might be linked to Zika
you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
Olympic controversies in other words
doped athletes are protected by the
anti-doping agency of Russia rather than
suspended for this list we’re taking a
look at the most notorious instances of
cheating violence and political
maneuvering from both the summer and
winter games all of which generated
worldwide discussion and debate until
today she was thought to be a virtual
shoo-in for the Olympics this evening
the president of the US Figure Skating
Association said that Kerrigan must
compete in tomorrow’s initial program or
she will not be allowed on the team
we’re excluding tragedies like the
Munich massacre of 1972 and Atlanta’s
bombing in 1996 as there is little
dispute about the causes and results of
those incidents we know that a rock
concert was taking place we know that
there has been talk about an explosion
from a garbage can there’s been talk
that there was evacuation in the moments
before it number 10
boris honest janko’s magic pepe after
the elimination of the Soviet team as a
result of onishchenko disqualification
hopes began to revive as a distinguished
yet aging modern pentathlete and
respected figure in the Soviet Union 38
year old Boris on his chenko had a
considerable reputation to uphold in his
homeland the pressure to perform
particularly in the Cold War era of
sport was too much to bear however and
caused the former Army Major to cheat
eventually leading to his downfall
desperate to match his silver medal
performance of four years prior he
altered his a pay to register hits even
when he wasn’t making contact with his
opponent punch is registered when the
Foyle hip hits the opponent with the
force of at least 500 grams just as
quickly as this plot was discovered
Boris the cheat was stripped of all his
sporting honors and
personally reprimanded by Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev therefore suffering the
very fall from grace he was trying
desperately to avoid number nine Jim
Thorpe’s disqualification reportedly
dubbed the greatest athlete in the world
by the king of Sweden this legendary
all-rounder took gold in both the
pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912
Summer Games setting records that would
endure well into the 20th century there
must be something in the Thorpe legend
for people to still be talking about him
fifty years after he’s dead
the Native American and European
athletics is defined by tales of his
nonchalant excellence his winning the
high jump in mismatched shoes is one of
many classic anecdotes yet his feats
will always be tainted by the IOC s
so-called elitist and potentially racist
attempts to punish him for violating
their Victorian rules on amateurism
rules that white athletes apparently
frequently abused without consequence
far as I’m concerned he’s a simon-pure
athlete you mustn’t take those medals
away from him gentlemen you mustn’t
under serious pressure from Thorpe
supporters the IOC did eventually yield
on the subject by returning thorpes
medals in the early 1980s they were
presented to his seven surviving
children
number eight displacement in Beijing as
far back as the year 2000 Chinese
officials were implementing quote
environmental improvement projects a
fancy phrase for the systematic
demolition of Beijing’s impoverished
areas resulting in the displacement of
an estimated 1 and a half million people
for the 2008 Summer Games these people
have been forced out of their homes to
make way for profitable real estate
projects although the local government
claimed that they moved only between 6
and 15 thousand people all with ample
compensation numerous reports emerged
exposing the mistreatment of those
unwilling to shift by heavy-handed
police Beijing’s floating population
consisting of rural migrants the
homeless and other so-called
second-class citizens
were most at risk from this purported
social cleansing as the government took
the opportunity to further marginalize
these people for now many live in
neighborhoods curtain’d off by gray
concrete wolf built authorities say to
make Beijing prettier it was reported
that 40 billion dollars was spent on
Olympic or corporate infrastructure
while human rights were allegedly
blatantly ignored adding to an already
large list of controversies surrounding
the Beijing Games this area will be
destroyed that’s certain we just don’t
know when I thought that that would
happen before the games but apparently
it got delayed say for now we’ve been
left alone number 7 the blood in the
water match just a few weeks before this
water polo match Soviet tanks had
rumbled into Budapest to end a
revolution that would claimed the lives
of about 3000 Hungarians I was
considered to be from the foreign class
background and when the communist system
came into power here I had to find the
opportunity to make my way in the world
with the hopes of restoring their
country’s pride the Hungarian team
devised a plan to rile the Russians up
get physical and force them into rash
decisions a lot of people asked why it
is that way
and I think that water polo is simply in
our blood with Hungary leading four
nothing late in the game
the Russians decided to take matters
into their own hands
Hungarian player Ervin’s ador was
viciously struck in the eye sending the
hundreds of Hungarians in the crowd into
a frenzy that required police
intervention to end in a bittersweet
finish to their games the Hungarian team
took home the gold but they could never
escape the matches political subtext
forcing many team members to find refuge
in less oppressive lands the Hungarians
are declared for nothing winners the
semifinal showdown instantly makes
headlines across the globe
number six the Russian doping scandal
it’s almost spooky the women’s 800
meters a favorite event of the Russians
that is now under general suspicion
details of state-sponsored systematic
doping in Russia really came to light in
2014 but they were dramatically expanded
upon when a former Russian anti-doping
official Gregory Ruud chenkov provided
an insider’s look into a conspiracy that
forced him to flee to the US in fear for
his life according to Russian cap he
would feed the athletes these banned
substances vile alcohol exploiting the
increased access granted by their
hosting of the games competitors in
Sochi in 2014 were allowed to dope
without consequence while they’re
tainted urine samples were exchanged for
clean ones in covert operations carried
out by Ruud chenkov and other shady
experts it’s a fact that we cannot prove
doping among athletes through our
evaluation but we do have an indication
of how widespread doping is he claimed
that at least 15 medal winners from the
2014 Winter Olympics might be implicated
as a result of these elaborate
supposedly Kremlin sanctioned schemes
Russia was indefinitely suspended from
world sports events and many of its
athletes may miss the 2016 Summer
Olympics in Rio but pressure is building
to make Russia sanctions stick much
longer number 5 ben jonson doping for
canadians a classic where were you
moment
then the positive drug test the men’s
100 meters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
in Seoul may have been labeled the
dirtiest race in history but it was also
one of the most enthralling to watch
that year it was all about Ben Johnson
versus Carl Lewis six members of that
all-star lineup would end up implicated
in other doping controversies later in
their careers but it was Johnson the
world record holder after his nine point
seven nine second race who will forever
be defined by the steroid use he began
in 1981 the Canadian was open about his
long-term cheating and was rightly
stripped of his gold medal yet to this
day he is act to be the only one
punished when the other athletes also
failed drug tests come and run after me
Ben and right here he’s even made
conspiratorial claims declaring that the
IOC only selectively cracks down on the
pervasive doping culture in athletics
but even if Johnson’s allegations are
true we may never fully know regardless
if you like what happened Al’s to us
they the experience of that moment the
sort of the emotions that it that it
evokes are still there
number four Tonya Harding and Nancy
Kerrigan many of you will be unable to
forgive me for that it will be difficult
to forgive myself it’s no surprise that
a feature-length film about this
sensational incident is in the works
containing jealousy a hit man and an
unrelenting desire for sporting success
the tale is ready for a big-screen
adaptation large man 6 to 200 pounds um
you know came running out just kind of
crouched when he got to her hit her a
couple times with some type of weapon
after practice for a national
championship that was crucial to
determine the US Olympic figure skating
team a thug hired by Tonya Harding’s
ex-husband and bodyguard struck Nancy
Kerrigan in the leg
since she was essentially the poster
girl of the sport at the time the attack
was orchestrated to intentionally put
her out of the 94 Games branded as the
hard-working do anything for gold skater
Harding’s alleged knowledge of the
attack was soon exposed by the media
however she was still allowed to perform
at the Olympics
fortunately Kerrigan recovered from the
botched attack and landed the silver at
the Lillehammer games while Harding
placed eighth was fined received three
years of probation and never skated
competitively again but if she were here
today what would you want to say to her
about all of this
well if she’d love me I’d love to give
her a hug number three the u.s. boycotts
the Moscow Olympics the United States
Olympic Committee voted to boycott the
Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in
response to the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan beginning in 1979 US
President Jimmy Carter led an
international boycott that doomed his
period in office and triggered the
Soviet Union’s own Olympic boycott of
the LA Games four years later we did our
best to preserve the games in Moscow in
1980 and we have to just do to do the
same to preserve the games in 1984 in
Rosalie’s
while the reasons behind this action
were righteous and well supported the
u.s. enlisted the help of Muhammad Ali
and ultimately 65 nations joined up the
boycott did threaten the Olympic
movement by embroiling the games in the
political maneuvering of two world
powers
well I’m very disappointed but I feel
that it’s probably the only thing that
our country can do as a unit 25 angry US
athletes even sued the government for
denying them a dream they worked so hard
towards and yet Carter stuck to his
morals strengthening a stance that would
later be described by the Soviet Union
as quote anti Soviet hysteria you can
look anywhere around the globe and
you’ll find a problem where help is
needed where we could jump on a
bandwagon if you like and I think it’s
just a little unfortunate that Swift
chose now they limp it gains to have a
go at number two the Olympics Black
Power salute my head bowed my fist went
up in air it’s one of the most powerful
images of the
it’s century and a demonstration that
has transcended many sporting events and
achievements in the metal ceremony for
the 200-meter race at the 1968 Summer
Olympics Americans Tommie Smith and John
Carlos who were shoeless and had their
heads bowed each thrust one gloved hand
in the air Tommie Smith and John Carlos
his controversial demonstration stunned
the world Smith said that the salute was
meant to symbolize human rights for all
though it was taken differently by
others who believed it was actually in
support of black power both athletes
were expelled from the games and greeted
with hostility when they returned to the
states we always had the happy face in
the USA all across our chest to give
indication that everything is smooth in
America but in fact it wasn’t smooth
however despite the fact that they lived
in a climate where it was potentially
dangerous to be openly critical of the
establishment they stood by the
political statement claiming it was
their moral obligation to sacrifice
their individual reputations to send a
message to the millions watching at home
a lot of black people generally were
better off 10 15 20 years down the line
because they made that stance before we
unveil our top pick here are some
honorable mentions we eventually came to
know that through an Italian wiretap on
uzbeki thug enlisted the help of a
French skating official to favor the
Russian pair over the Canadians at an
American Olympics accusations at Salt
Lake City had bribed some IOC members
with cash gifts possibly even the
services of prostitutes so it could get
the 2002 Games
and second of all battle
crazy and the world-champion old quarter
then and this is the danger and deck is
down oh the world champion and one of
the favorites is now flat out on the
infield
number one the Nazi Olympics unbury
every other banner we saw there was a
swastika for two weeks in 1936 Berlin
the world was blinded by Nazi prosperity
and hospitality while Germany’s
precisely directed propaganda campaign
obscured the country’s anti-semitic
racist homophobic and expansionist
policies from view how can that Jew be
good enough to win the Olympics that I
would have had to be afraid for my life
I’m sure numerous nations that would go
on to form the Allied powers were
present for every carefully manufactured
demonstration of fervent German pride
while arguments stating the
participation in the games would be
tantamount to an endorsement of fascism
went unheard and so despite mentions of
a potential boycott the games went on as
planned medals were even won by some
Jewish and black athletes but it was
Hitler who truly prospered the Reich
Chancellor managed to turn the games
into an advertising campaign for his
administration with some asserting that
he successfully manipulated European
powers into a complacency that would
allow the Nazi regime to spread across
Europe in the years to come everybody
knew everybody knew early on exactly the
kind of regime Nazi Germany was so much
so that for the first time in the
history of the old modern Olympic Games
there was talk about boycotting these
games do you agree with our list
what infamous Olympic moments do you
think were the most controversial as for
seven year old young PE she reportedly
says that she’s just honored to have had
a role in the opening ceremony in the
first place for more sporting top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com Brazilian government
health workers are investigating more
than 4,000 suspected microcephaly cases
that might be linked to Zika
you
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