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1 1912 Summer Olympics

The U.S. athlete Jim Thorpe is stripped of his gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon after it is learned that he played professional minor league baseball one summer three years earlier. In solidarity, the decathlon silver medalist refuses to accept the medal when offered to him. The gold medals are restored to Thorpe in 1983, 30 years after his death.

2 1932 Summer Olympics

After winning the silver in equestrian dressage, the Swede Bertil Sandström is demoted to last for clicking to his horse to encourage it, though he asserts it was a creaking saddle making the sounds.

3 1936 Summer Olympics

The I.O.C. expels American Ernest Lee Jahnke , the son of a German immigrant, for encouraging athletes to boycott Hitler's Berlin Games. He is replaced by U.S.O.C president Avery Brundage, who supported the Games.

In the cycling match sprint finals, the German Toni Merkens fouls Dutchman Arie van Vliet . Instead of disqualification Merkens is fined 100 Reichmarks and keeps the gold.

4 1968 Winter Olympics

Three East German competitors in the women's luge event are disqualified for illegally heating their runners prior to each run.

5 1988 Summer OlympicsThe Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in a 1981 vote, ahead of the Japanese city of Nagoya. Games of the XXIV Olympiad Nations participating159 Athletes participating8,465 (6,279 men, 2,186 women) Even

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Benjamin Sinclair "Ben" Johnson (born December 30, 1961) was a Canadian athlete, best known for his disqualification for doping use after winning the Olympic 100m final in 1988. Born in Falmouth, Jamaica, Johnson emigrat is stripped of his gold medal for the 100 MetreFor other uses of "metre" and "meter", see Metre (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Systeme International d'Unites). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in absolute vacu Dash when he tests positive for anabolic steroidAnabolic steroids are a class of natural and synthetic steroid hormones that promote cell growth and division, resulting in growth of muscle tissue and sometimes bone size and strength. Testosterone is the best known natural anabolic steroid, as well as ts after the event.

6 1994 Winter OlympicsThe XVII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, USA; Ostersund/ Are, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the summer and winte

Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of figure skaterFigure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other "moves" on the ice, often to music. There are international competitions for figure skating, such as the World Championships, and f Tonya HardingTonya Maxine Harding (born November 12, 1970) is a former figure skater from Portland, Oregon. After a tough childhood in an unstable lower-class family, plagued by asthma, she went on to win the U. national figure skating competition twice and place seco, arranges for an attack on her closest rival, Nancy KerriganNancy Kerrigan (born 13 October 1969) is a two-time Olympic figure skating medalist. She received a bronze metal in the 1992 Winter Olympics. She captured national attention on January 6, 1994 when she was clubbed in the knee by Shane Stant, who was hired, prior to the start of the Games. Both women compete, with Kerrigan winning the silver and Harding doing very poorly.