Top 10 Most Controversial Calls By Olympic Judges
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- When there are gold medals on the line, it ain't all fun and games. For this list, we’ll be looking at Olympic outcomes that sparked scandals, public outcries, and major backlash. Our countdown includes Anders Haugen’s Overdue Medal, Figure Skating Judging System, Roy Jones Jr. Gets Robbed, and more! Which Olympic win did you find the most shocking? Let us know in the comments.
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Hey, Watchmojo! You wanna see a shameful robbery? Look up "Mansueto velasco of the Philippines vs. Daniel Petrov of Bulgaria for the Gold medal match of the light flyweight 48 kg in boxing at 1996 Atlanta Olympics. It was a scandalous cooking show.
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All of them
There was a speed skater who was in 4th til last lap and the three in front of him crashed and he got the gold, but he said that he may have the gold but he was not the best skater out there that day
I heard Park Si-hun once said in an interview "They took away my Silver Medal of honor and gave me a Gold Medal of shame."
LOL oh my
Damn, that’s deep 😬
@@AB-nk5wv Damn...
Even he knew they did Roy wrong.. Roy Jones Jr. Got robbed.. and I wish I can see Park and say don't beat yourself down over something other humans did.. it's not your fault and will never be your fault..
@@kenrickeasonthat would be a great thing to do because in their culture honor is a big deal. That might be why he would feel that way but it's not his fault that judges weren't honest in all of it
Just before Thorpe events started someone slote his shoes. Thorpe found a pair of shoes in the garage. One was too big so he had to wear an extra pair of socks. So this G.O.A.T wore mismatching socks and mismatching shoes and still won medals. As a Proud Native American he's a Superhero in my books.
You're right about that. Possibly the greatest all-around athlete in recorded history.
You're proud of being born a certain member of a race? You don't know what pride means. You have pride in something you do, not in what you are.
@@Sheridantank easy boi!!
That Dude is one of the greatest Athletes America has ever produced.. Legendary..
I can't believe his shoes were sloten
More than a century later, Jim Thorpe’s Olympic legacy has been officially restored. Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the talented athlete will be reinstated as the sole winner of two events, the pentathlon and decathlon, that he competed in during the 1912 Games in Stockholm. (From Smithsonian Magazine, July 20, 2022).
Good! I feel it's too to heal wounds now but least they are trying to admit that they were wrong.. That man deserves to get recognized..
Ireland was robbed in Rio it still sickens me
Yes
I am from Ireland 🇮🇪
Rio was just awful on so many levels
Robbed how? (It's a genuine question.)
@@thatbrazilianreader752 Conlon had battered his opponent so badly that he couldn't even compete in the next round and yet Conlon was deemed the loser. Katie Taylor was Olympic champion and went on to become one of the greatest female boxers of all time and yet the judges deemed her the loser in her first match against a nobody Finnish boxer. Rio was corrupt to the core.
You could make a video on the scandals related to the figure skating judges alone-that whole sport is imbibed with prejudice and exploitation and it breaks my heart more each Games. Especially after this year, I feel so bad for these girls.
Agree and they could probably do a whole video on boxing judging scandals as well
The Figure Skating thing is truly heartbreaking.. How can they destroy people's lives like that?? And face no consequences at all for their actions of Judging Bias.. SMH!
@@emt874 Olympic Amateur Boxing 🥊 should be counting punches instead of having a Computer picking the winner.. Olympics Amateur Boxing is so messed up right now.. well it been messed up for a Century with all these Bullsh_t Judges over the years.. SMH!!
I think sports like figure skating and rhythmic gymnastics are hard to judge, because the score is based off the quality not quantity like other sports ex. football or basketball. When you score in football you get one goal, you win you get 3 points simple as that, but in figure skating it's down to the judges to decide if you done well or not. It's the reason why it is so easy to bribe and exploit the prejudice of the judges.
Not even a mention for Sylvie Fréchette? The Brazilian judge admitted her error, but the chief judge (US) refused to correct it
I agree this was real
Bad. And the American who won didn’t say a word
I was about to comment where was the Roy Jones Jr robbery until it finally came out.
I remember the 2002 figure skating scandal well. I, and everybody else, could not believe that Canada did not place first in the couples. It was incredibly obvious who did the best. We were dumbfounded. I remember Kelsey Grammar was on a late night talk show (Could have been Letterman) and said he didn't know what the fuss was about, that he thought Russia did better. Ha! No way!
I remember this well, being a Canadian myself. I remember seeing a clip where Jay Leno interviewed Sale and Pelletier via satellite from Salt Lake City. He supported them during this situation, enough so that he actually put a big Canadian flag behind him during the rest of that night's Tonight Show.
@@bluebear1985 I remember that. They showed when David kissed the ice, and then a funny clip of his tongue getting frozen to the ice.
Robin Williams mentioned that on Live On Broadway.
"The Canadians, they skate perfectly, eh? And the Russians come out and were like 'Oh, we fucked up', and the French were like 'Oh, how like life. They fucked up, we give it to them' ".
Please. As a Canadian and figure skating aficionado, I would have voted for the Russian pair team in 2002 if I were a judge. To me B&S are right up there with G&G as the greatest pair skaters of all time. for them to lose they would have not have taken to the ice at all. Their skills are vastly ahead of every team on the ice including S&P. Too many pop culture and laymen chiming in on something they don't know anything about. These people cannot tell a throw triple flip from a forward outside death spiral, yet they are a critic. SMH. B&S are fabulous skaters, and deserved the gold.
You know Kelsey was or could be right. If you preferred the Russian artistry and their inbedtweens were harder
The Canadians were better in terms of technical merit. NO ONE, not even the Russians, denies that. BUT, the Canadians also did an older routine (Love Story) that they had done before in previous competitions, despite having a newer routine (Orchid) in their repertoire. That’s not against the rules (at least not in 2002), but many of the judges probably had seen them do Love Story before and perhaps were expecting to see something new.
NBC did a documentary on this a few years back. It might still be on Peacock.
The mick conlan one was disgusting. Conlan even called it out dead on in the post fight interview
he beat Vlad nikitin in a professional fight after the olympics as well
@@therealorange5493 i was so happy to hear a few months back they investigated it, and proceeded to deal with the judges. Shame it came 5 years too late
why these judges look like they never played a sport in their life
Exactly!!
If an Olympic judge is proven to be corrupt and biased with their vote, suspension isn't enough. Fines and jail time should be the penalty. You're playing with ppl's lives and robbing them of their years of hard work and dedication
RIGHT!! People's lives are not nothing to play with.. It's dangerous and selfish.. and once they are fined and Jailed they should be banned for life.. It's insulting that they can come back after ruining someone's life.. SMH!!
100% agree. Peoples lives aren't toys
Jailed? Come now, no one got physically hurt. He should be banned and disgraced yes, but jailed?
@@c.w.8459 If I steal someone's valuables without their knowledge and get caught did I physically hurt somebody? Nope, and I steal go to jail. So that argument doesn't hold up
@UCfEA7RyIXVaY72xoYrkzVoA I mean the worst thing thing that would happen is them crying because they lost their valuables
Number 1 better be how Roy Jones Jr was robbed at the Korean Olympics. He smashed Korean so bad that when the red lifted the Korean boxer's hand the Korean looked ashamed.
Park was like (Wait, What??! I won!!) Even he knew he didn't deserve that win..
Number 1 when Martikan was robbed in water slalom in Athens I think. Judges said he touched the gate, even though we could all see on TV in slow-mo that he did not. But they refused to watch it. The guy that got gold medal instead is now something like main olympic abassador.
@@mionellessi3086 that’s not number 1
Onyok Velasco too in 1996
What about swedes bitching about Paavo Nurmi being a professional athlete and thus getting him banned from Olympics when almost every other runner was also more or less a professional athlete
Yuna Kim should have won gold at Sochi 2014 in figure skating, Russia played dirty and robbed that gold, that should never be forgotten :(
Not only did they rob it, they gave it to the least deserving Russian figure skater in the past years
Ah there was no evidence of cheating. Bad judging
Before watching - Roy Jones, Jr. getting jobbed is #1. The horseshit basketball crap against Russia is a close second.
you got them swapped but ya spot on
@@foxfire1112 they should be 1 and 1A.
Forgot to mention Jim Thorpe did that white athletes did the same thing but were not disqualified. His movie was white wash played by Burt Lancaster.
Same as whom? Sorry, just don't know exactly what you're referring to.
@Jason Mistretta remember back then they claimed if any part of you was not white you weren't white
@Jason Mistretta And when they came back from the wars they had to put up with the same bigotry as before they left just like African Americans. BTW, Avery Brundage could have fought for him as head of the USOC or fixed it outright when he led the IOC but chose not to as it's rumored he was racist and anti semetic.
where was the video when bulgaria robbed the Philippines (Velasco vs Petrov) in boxing during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics???
this event was almost the same as to what happened when Roy Jones Jr "defeated" by the robber host country Korea.
What's worst is that after Velasco came back to the Philippines, he never got part of the incentives during Fidel Ramos' administration for winning a Silver medal in 1996 Atlanta Olympics such as title for owning a free house and lot and scholarship for his children.
@@AccipiterSmithFidel Ramos died 2 years or 1 year later with no regret. I hope he became the president of suffering in hell 😂😂
Ara Abrahamian loss at the semifinals and later disqualification in men's wrestling back in 2008
Ross Rebagliati would retain his gold medal after an appeal which argued that 1. Marijuana is not a PED and 2. That Marijuana, at the time was not on the IOCs list of prohibited substances. Afterwards the IOC added Marijuana to the list of prohibited substances.
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I clicked on this video just to make sure Roy Jones was number one on the list. That was such a joke. It wasn't even close enough to make it controversial. It was downright embara.
But after you seen what happened to the U.S. Basketball Team you would see both should have been number 1..
@@kenrickeason which basketball game are you referencing? The game that always think of is the USA v USSR.
@@stevenmccart5455That’s number 1
Russia: give us gold medal 🥇 or I crush you.
It wasn't just that one boxing match it was the whole thing and in Olympic boxing it still continues
2022 Beijing Olympics short track.
That is a very controversial.
So carpenter pushes someone and thinks it’s okay. I’m glad he’s long gone.
Wasn't there a French judge who screwed Canada for Russia in the '90s in women's diving?
What is the worst decision you've seen from an Olympics judge?
As me being alive is when the 2002 Figured Skating thing happen and historically when Roy Jones Jr and the United States Men's Basketball Team got robbed..
AIBA has since had their privilege of organizing the Olympic boxing tournament
I think you forgot the ending to that sentence. Unless it’s deliberate
THE OLYMPIC JUDGING IS A JOKE!
After the China winter Olympics, we can create a new top 10 list
Can you please not call the USA "America" as every country from Canada all the way south to Argentina and the Caribbean islands is in the "Americas" so call it "the States" or the US"
as someone from the U.S. I don't get why people refer to us as "American" like we're the only ones
Has any Canadian ever referred to themselves as an "American" or would want to? That ship sailed about three hundred years ago.
Canada is Canada. Not America.
@@jamiethal1319 your wrong, America is NOT a country it's a continent
@@rexerexer66 I never said that America is a country. I just said that Canada isn’t the Americas.
What about Evander Holyfield's disqualification at the 1984 Los Angeles Games?
Beside the illegal meddling that FIBA head Dr.Jones of the UK did in the US-USSR final that cost the US several chances for the win, in the winning Russian throw in, the referee kept signaling the American who was guarding the pass, to stand back from the endline about fifteen feet, when international rules said he only had to be a meter from the end line. The US guy was 7'2'' Tom McMillan and if he had been standing at the legal distance there is no way the Russian is going to get a perfect full court length pass to Belov for the score.
@3:20 Kazakh not Afghani
With Miracle on Ice in 1980, Americans managed to avenge the 1972 basketball final.
In Soviet Russia, ball dribbles you
Olympic judging was a total joke during the "Cold War" era on both sides.
The scoring scandals are only one reason why figure skating is an exhibition not a sport. That plus kiss and cry areas. It’s just an over the top , impossible to score, the person expected to win always does, way to appease the Oprah crowd. Too much coverage at the expense of real sports, where the winner is determined by a clock, a measurement , first one across the line.
It's funny how the best scandals often involves an outsider against an athlete from the country that is hosting the Olympics that ends up winning.
Apollo Ohno was one of the most blatant cheaters I ever watched
Yes and no. Bill Walton is the key to all this. If the USA coach would of let Walton do light practice and play on the team, US would of won by 20. But, “Nobody is bigger than the team.”, so Bill wasn’t allowed to play. Way to go coach.
Weren't there also archaic rules about NBA players not being allowed to play? Or am I just thinking of the Olympics and the USA only using college players.
@@jraymond1988 Walton was still at UCLA in 1972. He was eligible.
Onyok Velasco!
This could easily be nothing but boxing. Azure Bijan was caught red handed bribing boxing officials before the Olympics. Despite being caught they did the deed in front of God and everyone. The Azur Bijan fighter is the gold medal match got pummeled and the ref called every knockdown a slip and the judges gave him the match.
What a surprise. 70% of the list comprises US athletes, including the first 3 positions....
So annoying how the USA think they are the center of the universe...
Crazy
I smelled bribes of corruption on Olympics
Can you do top 10 villains who could be the main villain of the third Wonder Woman movie in the DCEU?
Altanta Olympics boxing Philippines v Bulgaria
George Patton in the shooting competition.
Sounds like the 2nd is what happened to chiles this olympics
That 1 judge has 2 be biased.😒
Mansueto Velasco and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
On 8. The difference between the 'murican and the russian. Just, geez. Like, we get it, but it ain't your opponent, that did it.
Marijuana isn't a performance enhancing drug at all it does enhance many things but performance not so much
The 2002 skating controversy wasn’t so scandalous. Even if you thought Canada was technically better the tie breaker was artistrybwhich srguably Russia was better
Just get rid of subjective sports. If you need some old fart in a suit to decide who did best, it's not a sport, it's an artform. Be the fastest, strongest, highest, score the most points, simple.
It's not that simple. Corrupt judges will find ways to cheat in any sport, just look at #1
Well as we see in this video even objective sports have biased judges. Roy Jones COMPLETELY dominated that guy all three rounds of the olympics yet he lost?! Dude the Korean judges were biased asf
There will always be scandals with timed sports. I clearly touched the wall first in a state swimming meet. My competitor got the gold because her mom timed her which is against the rules.
Koreans are always involved, and they are not communist.
Surprised no Floyd may weather spot on this
I think that was only a national event but I could be wrong. But yeah me too considering Floyd’s name would bring hella views
Ross Rebliati Took Weed Drugs!?
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I won a gold medal once 🏅 (please like so I can feel like a champion again)
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Who even watched the olympics anymore
90% of this comments section so......🤡
Everything regular with 1st place. Soviets won fair and square
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Yeah, there's ALWAYS that one judge, that sees a much different fight!!! Not just in the Olympics, but in all of boxing!! That one judge, that lives in the promoter's pocket.
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If someone unfamiliar with the Munich basketball scandal were to just go by this video, they might think that it was just a matter of whether or not that full-court pass and layup were accomplished before time expired. There's more to that story.
I watched a documentary about it a few years ago. I think it was called :03 to Gold. It was obvious cheating to add time to the game. I don't know how the other team felt right about accepting a gold they didn't earn. It's shameful.
@@_kim123 Soviet era was a different time especially if the game was against the United States. At that point it’s beat the U.S no matter what.
Thorpe was a beast
Michael Conlon beat his opponent so badly that he couldn't continue to compete in the next round and yet he was still deemed the loser.
If anyone is unfamiliar with 1972 Munich basketball controversy and why it’s number 1 in this list, heres the sequence of events.
1) USA shoots freethrows to go up by 1. There is 3 seconds left on the clock.
2) Soviet Union inbounds and calls time out, which was granted with 1 sec left on the clock. Some arguing over when the time out was called and how much time should be on the clock. It’s ultimately concluded that, Soviet Union was not granted a time out (this is important later). Officially, decide to just do it over. The inbound pass never happened and they are replaying the inbound sequence again with 3 seconds (controversy #1)
3) 3 seconds supposed to be on the clock, Soviet Union to inbound. Tight defense by USA prevents Soviet Union from being able to get a full court pass to a player parked under the basket in, so they do a short pass and then tried to pass it full court. The buzzer sounds before the pass makes it the full court. Americans celebrate again. HOWEVER, the play was ordered to be done over AGAIN because the time keeper was in the middle of setting the clock to 3 seconds when the play started and no one noticed (Controversy #2)
4) Play is ordered to be done over again. This time Soviet Union manages to pass it full court and make the basket for the win. BUT, remember how I mentioned earlier that the first time they did this play over again, it was ruled officially that the Soviet Union wasn’t granted a time out, but a do over? Well, rules state that for a substitution to happen, it can only be during a timeout. Well, Soviet Union did a substitution before the first do over. A substitution they weren’t allowed to do because they weren’t given a time out, but rather a do over. The person they substituted in was the player who was camped under the basket and made the shot to give the Soviet Union the victory (Controversy #3)
Another small detail that needs to be considered is that The Secretary General of FIBA, Renato William Jones, made the order to put 3 seconds back on the clock, despite the fact that he had no authorization to do so, nor was there any rules of regulation that gave him such authority.
The US team had 40 minutes to beat the Soviets, not 3 seconds.
I never realized until I read about the substitution do over was against the rules, a few minutes ago, that that was the final nail in the coffin of any doubt that the U.S. basketball team was robbed. Believe it or not, I had never realized, until now, that you can't make substitutions on a do over.
Yuna Kim's Silver in sochi.... noone?
I know right?! That for me was unforgivable :(
THE JUDGES SO GOT IT WRONG!
Super Mick Conlan
the jim thorpe one makes me thing of all the other women of color who often get told they perform and too high a level to be judged and get sometimes 10 points off their score
So what happens to those silver medals? They are just going to sit there for ever? What if Doug Collins family or anyone else on the team what them? These medals have a huge value as a collectors item !
Some team members put it in their wills that none of their descendants can claim these medals They will never be claimed.
@@charlesstuart7290 terrible ! Literally like putting a force filed around a gold mine! If just one person get one of these medals, a family member, they could flip that for many millions ! Hell, it could set a record ! One medal could be the “Honus Wagner” of medals. They ought to make a movie about stealing these medals ! Lol
@@garyb2392
What's terrible is that you see it as a financial thing and not a sentimental one.
@@Sheridantank well, how else can I think of it? I wasn’t around during that game, literally. But it’s history ! How am I any different from someone who wants a civil war sword or a German Luger ? These medals are a piece of history and there are plenty of museums that attest to the fact that people want to see a piece of history. How about this, put them on tour, replay the game and have people learn about what happened in the context of bball, Olympic competition, politics, etc. I’m sure many many people would learn something from that…and pay to see it. right now these medals are nothing and at some point in the not too distant futurethey will be forgotten…I guess if thats what this team wants. That said, the medals have a value because they are rare. And even when every member is this team is dead and buried the medals will still have value but No one will know that that team was robed ! There could be some good that comes from these if the medals can’t be sold. This situation being treated like nuclear waste is wrong !
@@garyb2392 I was around for the game, saw it live - if my dad had been on that team, I wouldn't touch that medal with a ten-foot barge pole
2021 Tokyo games: Tareg Hamedi is disqualified in the karate final because he kicked his opponent “too hard.”
No.8 Russia rob a bronze medal from Ireland 🇮🇪
I actually know someone who wrote a book on the Munich basketball scandal.
#7....on today's episode of No S*** Sherlock, a snowboarder smoked weed
Why isn’t motor racing still not an Olympic sport yet?
I was most surprised by that bobsled team from Jamaica.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco (Atlanta Olympics) = Boxing
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The Roy Jones Jr scandal was the one I'll always remember. I REALLY feel bad for the athletes in each case that are awarded medals they didn't earn all because of some bullshit nationalism. I think, someday, the Olympics will be about pure athleticism, and not about which country gets to claim the medal. Take the politics and money out . . . somehow . . . and you'll be left with what the Olympics claims to be.
8th in the list happened in 2012 as well with England rigging their boxers result so they could win a medal at home
Conlan should've got the Gold medal. He was far better than the Russian. Thorpe should never have been stripped of his medals, he won them fair and square
paris 2024 boxing is rigged asf
Can you do comic book origin of DC Chillblaine and Golden_Glider?
As a Canadian and figure skating aficionado, I would have voted for the Russian pair team in 2002 if I were a judge. To me B&S are right up there with G&G as the greatest pair skaters of all time. for them to lose they would have not have taken to the ice at all. Their skills are vastly ahead of every team on the ice including S&P
Russia yet again
Roy jones IMO
Yuna Kim? Sochi? U guys really left that off?!?!
But you have to ask yourself....What would Brian Boitano do?
Talk about messed up situation
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