Top 10 Scandalous Olympic Controversies

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A "Russian Anti Doping Agency" is an utterly hilarious concept.

I was in Yr5 when the bombing happened. I saw it on tv and looking back it feels unreal that it happened especially when you were a kid

1)Park Si-Hun beating Roy Jones Jr to win the Light middleweight boxing gold medal in 1988.

2)Marion Jones bring stripped of her olympic titles after admitting to long term doping

3) John Carpenter winning 400m Gold in 1908 in a walkover after everyone withdrew in protest.

4) The Gymnastic Vault being set too low for the gymnastics at the 2000 Olympics.

5)Brazilian Marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima being attacked during the 2004 Olympic Marathon.

6)The North Korean flag being shown during a South Korean Womens Football match at the 2012 Olympics

7)Swimmer Ryan Lochte fabricating claims he was robbed at gunpoint after committing criminal damage at a gas station during the 2016 Olympics

How can you do a video like this without including the fixed gold in womens figure skating in 2014!

No mention of Munich.

Russian athletes should have all their medals stripped, all their prize money seized, and the entire corrupt nation be forbidden from competing in any Olympic or World Cup sports for at least 12 years.

And no Olympics should be held in China or Russia. Ever. Nor any country with human rights violations as egregious as those.

"black people had better lifes because they made that stance" wtf? nigga u stupid?

The Nazis cut some guys cock off and pretended he was a woman. He won a medal in the1936 high jump.

You all should do an updated video.

the Harding thing wasn't a controversy. it was a criminal act.

You forgot Peter Norman. He wore the OPHR badge in solidarity.

where the hell is roy jones jr vs park si hun literally renown for being one of the worst robberies in olympic history and by far the worst robbery in amateur boxing to this day

So when did the two controversies of the events happening in 2002 and 2014 be compared when in no way are they even related to each other. What happened in 2014 can be only focused on the event that unfolded itself in a entirely different way. Let us keep the two events in the two olympic games separated from one another.

the russian doping scandal is such an american fabricated thing.

Roy Jones jr getting railroaded in Korea was the worst ever !

The "black power salute" was a change my life moment! As a teen, love everyone, hippie in training in 1968, all my friends were behind the Olympians! We KNEW they raised their fists for human rights for all! A similar situation in 2021 in Tokyo. Backs turned during Star Spangled Banner and for what? Chaos and anarchy? I'm still that starry eyed 17 year old at heart! But I only talk of my naivete with my son. Labeled a Boomer, better off silent. It hurts to see how far it's turned away...

You forgot the role of Peter Norman in the black power salute.

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The US boycotting because of the invasion of Afghanistan only to invade themselves unsuccessfully 20 years later without any reason either.

Boris Dishonestchenko the electric fencer.

Bejin China and Rio deserved better since it's not fair 2 kicked out of their homes leaving them homeless while making the Olympics and ignoring their needs. The irony is after the games it was left abandoned. I hope they let them go back home.

Look up the nasty treatment in Australia that the silver medalist received in the gloved hand race. I think the gloves were his. Racism is ghastly and pathetic.

Don't forget Wladysdaw Kozakiewicz bras d'honneur obscene gesture at the Moscow Olympics at the pole vault event.

I thought the segment on Chinese displacement was interesting, because Atlanta managed to do the exact opposite. If you weren't there in the 1970s and 1980s, I don't think you have any idea how dangerous Atlanta could be. A doctor was struck with a stray bullet and killed standing out on the steps of one of the city's most prominent hotels downtown, and friends who went to Georgia Tech told me they lay in bed at night listening to automatic gunfire more than once. You had to be very brave to go see the Braves play at FulCo Stadium, which required figuring out parking and navigating the area, because walking around downtown Atlanta wasn't something you just did of a random night! It's truly a shame that Eric Rudolph made the pipe bombing the story, because the Olympics changed the entire direction of the city--for the better!!!

To be fair, it wasn't really the Atlanta Olympics so much as the Southeast Olympics, with venues from Birmingham, AL, to Miami, FL, hosting events; yet Atlanta was the center and leaders very strategic in how they used the shot the IOC gave them to make lasting change. The notorious projects concentrated near downtown were split up, replaced with a combinaion of something more like a voucher system and new housing constructed in multiple parts of the city went up. A lot of the money went into updating infrastructure like that, including for a great public transportation system (although that hasn't relieved traffic congestion thanks to people who would rather sit alone in their cars for an hour or two in morning and afternoon rushes rather than use that transportation). Still, it's rated pretty highly overall, and it's certainly the best system in the South. I'm sure there were painful displacements of the disadvantaged in the process of all that change, but it wasn't just a matter of "white" gentrification. Atlanta has become a more culturally diverse city with international and cosmopolitan appeal, a variety of commerce sources, and a wide range of industry types precisely because it became a safer city with an upgraded and modern infrastructure, with the Olympics changing the game for more than just the athletes. I've lived in other places that got marquee events like Democrat/Republican conventions and the Super Bowl. Usually the money seems to move from one pocket of the organization putting it on to other peoples' pockets without much dropping along the way for the community to benefit. Atlanta is the exception, and I've often wondered about the effects the Olympics had in different places.

You forget about that bullshit that Ryan Lochte did in Rio 2016

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Pls include the Japanese Olympic judges on Hashimoto artistic gymnastics where he landing on outside of line while still get a high score on here.

tbh every nation dopes just some gets caught. even canada did ffss

why the Japanese gymnast HASHIMOTO DAIKI could get the gold medal？？？？🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Tonya Harding was in the wrong yes, But ultimately she had little to no control over what happened to Nancy with what the hitman did to her. Figure skating can either make you or break you coming from experience. It's challenging, sometimes stressful but overall rewarding despite the often toxic setting with rivalries. Unfortunately some irrational thinking was done that tragic day. After watching the film based on this, I don't know how much of it is fiction but it paints Tonya as a victim of everyone around her's actions. So I personally don't blame her for most of it.

OMG For Nancy Kerrigan and US Capitol Building's security force, Jan 6th will be a date that will live infamy.

I think if the list would have a been a bit longer that the Roy Jones Jr Boxing match Vs the south Korean in the 1988 Games would have been mentioned. The judges scoring the bout scored it making the South Korean boxer wining the gold Medal. The South Korean boxer himself was so certain that he lost that after the winner was announced he couldn't raise his hands to acknowledge the win knowing that a fraud that had just been committed. Having won the gold medal he never fought again out of shame. His own words not mine.

As a former runner, and with a daughter who was an incredible athlete,... How the hell is it winning when you are using drugs.....

They sent the homeless to Vancouver Island amid the 2010
Olympics, and we are still dealing with it

I think it was the 88 Olympics in Korea that the US boxing team was robbed of many victories. They didn't win unless there were knock outs. Roy Jones Jr. being one of the most famous ones.

Women can't dope but men can compete as women mow

i have never been a big nancy kerrigan fan, i felt sorry for harding

Wasn't there a scandal about the Chinese gymnastics team lying about their girls making the minimum age requirement? I'm surprised that wasn't at least an honorable mention.

FFS get you fucking facts right! Zola Budd did not "collide with Mary Decker". As Budd ran in bare feet Decker raked her running spikes down Budd's heals, cutting them and making them bleed. In doing so Decker tripped herself up

And now they are allowing men to compete as women!

So pleased there are quite a few commentators who have brought up the courage of Peter Norman and his joining the Black athletes on the podium in support of their cause. To the detriment of his own career.

The very idea of Salt Lake City (and all those in Utah supporting them) using illegal and even dirty tactics to win the bid for the Winter Olympics is absolutely absurd and outrageously absurd!!! How dare you even intimate such a thing; when evidence for such is vertically non existent and the evidence against it is monumental!

olympics have become too political

Can’t we say jimmy carter was actually right . Let’s just look of Afghanistan, after the soviet and the U.S. have left

What else could be expected from Russia and China.

Re Onishchenko...more likely the KGB said to cheat. His incident is why we have several epee-specific rules now.A note that the clip talking about the pressure to hit is wrong re Onishchenko...FOIL requires a 500g hit, but Onishchenko was a pentathlete, and they use epees....which require 750g.

CCP ignoring human rights? No way!

Tonya Harding is still not upset over her role in the Nancy Kerrigan's attack.

I wonder why nobody mentioned Simone Biles, she used meds to control her focus during the olympics. As well the norwegian biathlonists who took asthma meds, even though this was clearly doping nobody cared, since they were not Russian but Norwegian