Nearly 2,000 years ago, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, then emperor of Rome, is reported to have changed the year of the Games - from AD 65 to AD 67 - so that he could compete in chariot racing, alongside a 10-horse outfit which far outweighed that of his 'rivals'.
It’s not just the modern Olympic Games that has been tarnished by corruption, bribery and scandal. Was Emperor Nero a massive cheat? (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) Wada found that Russian authorities had deliberately erased and manipulated doping data stored in a Moscow laboratory in a bid to keep athletes from being punished or banned for taking illegal substances.ĭmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, said the ban was part of "chronic anti-Russian hysteria", while there was outrage in December 2020 when Russia's ban was halved.Ĭallum Skinner, Team GB's Olympic gold medal cyclist, said “the biggest doping scandal in history had gone unpunished” after the ruling by the Court of Arbitration in Sport.įor the Tokyo Olympics, Russian gold medallists were set to hear music by Tchaikovsky as a replacement for their national anthem, which was banned - alongside the Russian flag - for the Tokyo Games.
Russian doping in sport was sensationally blown wide open in 2016 when a report published by Wada, the world anti-doping authority, declared it had operated a state-sponsored doping regime for four years across an array of summer and winter Olympic sports.Īlleged widespread corruption and wrongdoing led to a four-year ban imposed on Russia in 2019. (ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/AFP via Getty Images) Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev described the ban as ‘hysteria’.
“Her father would appreciate the extent to which Melbourne liked the cultural work of his daughter.” “I think she probably tinkles in the C division, rather than the A, but certainly she's a competent pianist,” noted one Melbourne bid official. A former South Korean intelligence operative, he also liked to help out his children - which included piano-playing daughter Hae-Jung Kim, whose concert performances had drawn mixed reviews.įor Melbourne’s bid to host the 1996 Summer Games, an official revealed that Kim’s daughter was invited to play a showcase concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the behest of bidding chiefs. South Korean Kim Un-Yong was once one of the International Olympic Committee’s top brass and a key figure in securing the 1988 Olympics for Seoul. Here's a look at some of the more unusual moments of personal favours, bribery and downright criminality over the years that have tarnished the Olympic ideal. As long as there has been an Olympic Games, there have been people willing to corrupt it.
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