Olympic scandals by Egantx7

Champion(s):

WellsW
If you ain't first, you're last


Runner(s)-Up:

Vicun-YAH


Quiz Description

With the Olympics in Rio set to open this summer (maybe?), it seems appropriate to look back on Olympic scandals. While FIFA can certainly take the gold medal for scandal, the IOC gives FIFA a serious run for its money. Here are 12 questions about the less glorious and more notorious moments in Olympic history.

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Questions:

Name the host city or the year. The boxing at this city's Olympics were probably the last great year for the U.S, though this was helped by a Cuban boycott. Among other things, a referee from New Zealand had to flee the country after coaches and officials from the host nation's rushed the ring and began punching and kicking the referee after a decision against one of their boxers. The losing boxer, embarrassed, then refused to leave the ring for over an hour in protest. Identify these games who later saw Roy Jones, Jr. lose the gold medal despite out hitting and out defending himself against a boxer from the host nation. Years later, it was determined that judges were bribed, but the IOC still refuses to overturn the mockery of a decision.

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Seoul (1988)

Name the competitor or the country she represented. Figure skating at the 1994 Lillehammer games are remembered for the Tony Harding-Nancy Kerrigan follies, With Harding finishing in 8th after an embarrassing melt down on the ice when her skate laces snapped. Kerrigan tied for first place, but was given the silver medal on tie breaking procedures. Identify the woman (or her home nation) which won the gold medal, the first person representing her recently independent nation to win an Olympic gold medal.

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Oksana Baiul (Ukraine)

Identify the winning teamWe take you to the semifinals of water polo at the Games of Melbourne. This winning team began by taunting the Soviets, in Russian, before the match started, and continued taunting verbally and with physical aggression throughout the match. With about a minute left, a Soviet player retaliated, severely beating a member of this team who emerged from the water bloody as fans ran to the pool deck launching death threats at the Soviet players. The match was stopped, and this team then went on to defeat Yugoslavia for the gold before many team members defected. Identify this nation, whose water polo team avenged their home nation by beating down the Soviets in what is known today as the "Blood in the Water" match.

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Hungary

After FIFA began its "World Cup" in 1930, football took an Olympiad off before returning in 1936. In the quarterfinals, Peru took this nation to overtime, and managed to score 5 goals (three of which were overturned by referees). However after a 4-2 loss, this nation's Olympic Committee complained about poor field conditions, an angry crowd rushing the field after the game, and other things. Olympic officials decided to allow for a rematch, which not only caused the Peruvians to leave Berlin, but saw the German embassy in Lima attacked while dockworkers in Peru refused to load German ships. Identify this nation which borders Germany, which would become much, much closer on 12 March 1938.

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Austria

In December 2012, this nation's Olympic Committee was suspended by the IOC for corruption (the pot calling the kettle black) when it was learned that this nation's government had instituted legal proceedings to gain control of their own Olympic Committee and force it to use national rules vs. IOC rules for conducting business. While the suspension did cause this nation's government to back down and call for new free elections for its Olympic Committee membership, it happened too late to help their Olympic athletes heading to Sochi, who were forced to march under the Olympic flag as independent athletes. Identify this large nation, not known for a lot of winter sports.

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India

Give the year or the city. The mayor of this city, in accepting the Olympic bid, said The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby. This city did finally pay off its US$1.5 billion debt from the games in just over 30 years. With African nations already boycotting, the U.S. was preparing to boycott when the host nation refused to allow Taiwan's team entry to their country, because this nation did not recognize the Taipei government. After negotiations, the IOC allowed Taiwan to compete under the Olympic flag and using another name, leading Taiwan to ultimately boycott. Identify the year or host city of these lackluster games which saw only 92 nations competing.

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Montreal (1976)

Then there is the 1972 Olympic basketball finals between the US and USSR. The last three seconds of the game were a monumental screw up by referees and officials that no one has yet to coherently explain, other than the USSR was given the gold medal, and the U.S. team has refused to accept their silver medals. This man had stolen a Soviet pass, and was fouled, allowing him to sink two free throws to give the U.S. a one point lead with three seconds remaining, Identify this Illinois State star and NBA Countdown commentator who coached the Chicago Bulls from 1986-89, being replaced by assistant coach Phil Jackson.

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Doug Collins

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, this man became the first Canadian sprinter to strike gold in 60 years when he won the 100 meters over Carl Lewis. This man's victory and Canada's glory lasted three days before the urinalysis came back showing that he had used stanozolol, an anabolic steroid. His coach later wrote a book attacking inaccurate IOC drug testing procedures by claiming that this man preferred to take the illegal steroid furazabol, which in hindsight did nothing to help this man's case. Identify this Canadian sprinter, among the highest profile athletes to ever lose a gold medal at the Olympics for doping, who would try and rehabilitate his image by briefly coaching Diego Maradona (no, that is not a misprint).

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Ben Johnson

One of the more overt forms of political expression ever made by any athletes during the Olympics came during the medal ceremonies for the 200 meters at the 1968 Mexico City games. Name either of the two American runners who donned black gloves and black socks (without shoes) and raised their fists as a sign of solidarity for all those who were being denied civil rights (often mistaken as a "Black Power" salute,something routinely denied by these two men).

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Tommie Smith & John Carlos

This President of the IOC in 1968 repudiated the use of the Olympics as a place for politics by the men in question 9, and arranged for their eviction from the games. This man might have had more credibility had it not been for his enthusiastic support of the German government at the 1936 games. When asked to defend his support of hundreds of athletes giving the Nazi salute in Berlin, while attacking two men supporting human rights in Mexico City, this man said that the Nazi salute was acceptable because it represented a nation. Name this only American to lead he IOC, who pushed for the 1972 games to continue after the terrorists invaded the Olympic village, worked tirelessly to keep advertising, and professional athletes out of the Olympics, and did not live to see his protege (and Franco supporter), Juan Antonio Samaranch become President of the IOC.

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Avery Brundage

This sport saw the ejection of 8 athletes at the 2012 games after it was concluded that the 8 made efforts to throw their matches in order to have favorable draws for the medal stage of competition. Name this sport which saw the ejection of South Korean, Chinese, and Indonesian athletes; The only sport other than tennis and equestrian that allows men and woman to compete at the same time.

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Badminton

While the IOC and national governments have moved the sites of Olympic games, only once has a city been awarded the games, only to have the voters in that city essentially reject them. In 1972, two years after this city was awarded the 1976 Winter Olympics, the voters of this city, fearful of already mounting cost overruns, voted overwhelmingly against a bond issue which was needed to finance the games. 8 days after the vote, this city's Organizing Committee announced that it could no longer fund their bid, and withdrew their offer to host. Identify this city, an obvious location for hosting the Winter Games, which was replaced by 1964 host Innsbruck, Austria.

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Denver, Colorado