Top 10 Times Athletes Had Their Medals Stripped Away
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Sports were never the same after these athletes were stripped of their honors. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most famous cases of Olympic athletes losing their medals due to controversial actions. Our countdown includes Lance Armstrong, Ben Johnson, Jim Thorpe, and more! Think any of these decisions were unfair? Let us know in the comments!
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Think any of these decisions were unfair? Let us know in the comments!
Definitely Rick Demont the rest seems more or less Fair for doping and breaking rules as for the ones that refused the medal well for Ibragim I'm a bit confused about that one. And as for the other guy it makes sense
Forgot Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos...
you know that there is a Arthur episode called Room to Ride and it features a character silmar to lance armstrong?
Didn't i told you guys to stop sponsering cancerous music? sigh...
@@racheljackson4428 been awhile since I seen Arthur. I didn't know that either
Its really sad how medication for an athlete's health issues can disqualify all their hard work.
For sure, especially since he did everything right on his side, he told everyone who asked
I see what you mean!
But a man taking drugs to be a woman is totally fine!
@@jonathanbrunner5202 gtfo with your transphobia
This story made me so sad. And he was banned for life! He was only 16!
this was interesting to watch
I feel bad for all of these!
Well.. it is wrong to use performance enhancing drugs when it is clear that you are not allowed..
#9-I like how the video literally gives no info or context as to why the guy refused the medal...
And today athletes are quitting because reasons……
Really??
Okay Rick Demont's situation is just unfair honestly. He did tell them but they never told IOC. That's just not cool
A pity no one advised him to inform the IOC direct
It's the country that should have taken the responsibility he did everything right really not fair
Imagine being stripped off your titles for having a beer or two. Scandalous
right
He consumed alcohol before a race.
@@GefilteFish. and how did that effect the race?
He was so drunk they think he can run properly
Also I think they just want everything to be completely natural, and as fair as possible
Jim Thorpe's loss of his medals was definitely the most infamous. That he played baseball professionally should have had no effect since baseball wasn't even an Olympic game. And I heard that his OWN coach ransacked Thorpe's home to grab the medals and return them without Thorpe's permission. The Olympic Commission didn't want to reconsider during his lifetime, and didn't even want to concede that they had acted unfairly, even so long after his death. The publicity forced them to act. Thorpe was so hurt by what happened - it was a tragedy.
Doing things like reinstating medals, awarding honors, or apologizing for wrongs decades later or after a person's death is worthless BS. It happens all the time and is done more to clean up an organization's legacy than restore the wronged individual.
WOW I just realized lol.. I thought that he was a professional baseball player and that he played baseball in the olympics (even though it’s not a sport in the olympics haha) but oooooohhhhhh he was competing in something else.. oh ok then ya that is super unfair!
Another interesting note on Jim’s “professionalism...” His “pay” was free room and board during the season!
he also did this while technically not being a US citizen, native americans weren’t granted citizenship until the 20’s
@@asiam994 Yes, indeed....
I feel bad for the guy in number 7, and number 1. The people who the rules in number 1broke them! And the athlete finally got his badges after he died! That's sad.
If I was a member of his family I know where I would tell them to stick it.
Imagine an athlete losing a medal because they have athletes foot
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Imagine losing a medal because of asthma medication.
The narrator deserves a gold for pronouncing all those names!
It’ll be stripped away for over enunciating all of the “T” sounds during the rest of the video.
Facts he did good
How do you know they where pronounced correctly?
@@eeduranti I don't 😫
Nah he needs a platinum medal
“They reinstated his medals- 30 years after his death.”
A lot of good that will do now 😂
It enhances his legacy and honors his descendants.
@@johnanderson9765 That’s true, I was just noticing how it seemed kind of late
I agree with the ones having their metals taken because they intentionally cheated or they refused them because they weren't gold, but I feel bad for the ones who lost them because of technicalities, most of which end up being reversed, but not until decades later.
I thought the anti doping laws only punished atheletes who used PEDs. Why punish a guy who consumed two beers to calm his nerves? What about that is considered “doping”
I have no idea about how dorping works, but I'd guess it's basically a ban of drugs or substanses that can alter ones performing abilities.
Stuff like alcohol, steroids, hard drugs ect would fall into that.
You'd be surprised at what is considered PED. Did you hear about the track star who was dropped from the US Track Team for testing positive for marijuana? In no way did that enhance her performance.
@@drfreud65 it could be argued being calm is part of it. course the trade off is lowering your brains thought process speed.
It depends on the event. Beers could be considered a sedative which would help with shooting where a lower heart rate makes it easier to aim. I think it's complete and utter BS, but I think that's the rationale
@@drfreud65 well Marijuana was also illegal at the time, right? So they also probably don’t want their athletes who are representing them to be doing illegal things..
3: You can take away the medal, but you can't take away the shame of losing to a 14 year old
especially because the female skateboarders that were 1st and 3rd place were 13 years old.
Sorry, Lance Armstrong is no longer “the most popular cyclist in history”. He is the most well-known or most notorious or most famous or most despised.
Weird how the 14 yr old got stripped of her medal while we just had a 13 yr old win gold in women’s skate boarding and a 12 yr old compete in table tennis.
I think it’s just for gymnastics that they need to be at least 16. That may not be the case for other sports.
Each sport regulates age separately
In this Summer olympics a 14yo girl won the gold in the 10mt platform dive, and I call BS on the IOC for allowing that
It’s like that in gymnastics because they were abusing, starving, and stunting maturation in the girls as they thought this was an advantage. It created a lot of injuries and was bad for mental health as well. They changed the minimum age from 14 to 16. Which is much safer for the athletes. Skateboarding and table tennis don’t really compare as far age and the risk to health of the athletes in said sport.
She got bone necrosis at 15... not a normal problem.
I agree she deserved the medal skill wise, but blocking 14 year old gymnasts from Olympics is done to protect them from their trainers pushing them so hard they cause major damage to their bodies.
And that is what happened to her, after all.
The only one that I believe it's unfair is number 7 because he did disclose his medication!
Jim Thorpe losing his medals was sad. Thank God the IOC gave the medals back to Jim's living children.
To little too late. Imagine all the decades his family had to fight to try and clear his name.
It is all worth it in the end
#10, 7 and 6 (even tho 6 ended up getting a medal) seem like some unfair BS
Thorpe’s was the most heartbreaking
Forgot about Andreea Raducan, the Romanian gymnast, who had her gold medal from the Individual all around competition taken away because she took cold & flu medicine!!!!
@Paraone Ngatai
Yep but because it's still considered a drug.
The Olympics still lable that as an illegal substance. Which is retarded,that's like saying the low levels of caffeine in regular coffee are the same as cocaine
@Paraone Ngatai EXACTLY...plus it wasn't her fault she was given it by the team doctor, she was all of 16 at the time....and it's like saying pot is a performance enhancing drug....to paraphrase Robin Williams: "....the only way marijuana is a performance enhancing drug is if there was a giant Hershey bar at the end of the run way" (talking about the Olympic snowboarder who had his medal stripped, who could make this list)!!!!
what's more messed up, is that substance is no longer illegal, they took it off banned substance list.
@@Only1Noodle well ain't that some bullshlt!!!!
@@Only1Noodle it is still on the WADA banned list for during competition testing hence if it is found during a competition you will still be thrown out (if it is above 150 microgrammes per ml), if found in a random test out of competition you are not judged to have failed the drugs test. Nothing was found in the tests after her other finals so kept those titles.
How is having 2 beers considered doping? That's a odd one.
With shooting being one of the events in the pentathlon, depressants would give a steadiness advantage.
@@jrasquared1 ola
Also I think they want everything to be completely natural, and as fair as possible
@@jrasquared1
Um ever fired a gun while drunk?. Yeah you're not going to have improved aim,as a matter of fact. You'll more than likely shoot someone rather than the actual target.
@@vladimir-savage72 Give me one fully grown person who gets drunk of two beers? Who's not Asian.....
Ben Johnson was the Usain Bolt of his day? No, he wasn't. Usain Bolt didn't take steroids, so don't mix his name with a cheat.
Dont forget about the Dodgeball regional qualifying game in 2005 when troop 417 played against average joes.During the ADAA-approved random drug screening, one of the players tested positive for three different anabolic steroids, and a low-grade beaver tranquilizer. Therefore, Troop 417 became disqualified stripping them if their medal and letting Average Joe's win.
Love this!
If a 14 year old beats a bunch of adults she deserves a medal
They aren't allowed to compete in the Olympics in gymnastics at that age for their own safety. Some countries were lying about their athlete's age to get them into the Olympics. If they let everyone keep a metal who lied about their age what's to stop any and every country from just sending athletes that are too young?
Facts they need to give it back to her and she should have ran off with it
@@og_3rd_st_saint_gat there are no sports that allow you to win if you broke the rules.
It is quite plausible for a 14 year old girl to manage to beat her adult competitors in that sport. A 14 year old guy, however, most definitely can't (in any sport).
Being from Oklahoma I know about Jim Thorpe. He is a hero to Oklahoma and his tribe Sac and Fox Nation. It sucks what the IOC did to him.
I feel bad for the athletes that almost achieved their dreams until some controversies stripped their medals away.
Well for some of them, like the one with the asthma medication, yes. But for the ones where athletes used performance enhancing drugs, when they knew they weren’t allowed, then they aren’t achieving their dreams the right way..
How is Lance Armstrong not number one?
This narrator should have the letter T stripped from his vocabulary.
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Considering professional athletes are now allowed in the Olympics (basketball, hockey for examples), anyone who ever has had medals taken away for being professionals should have their medals reinstated.
I wish you talked about Marion Jones. Especially since she dated and married two track and field guys who also took banned substances.
why does dropping a medal = banned for life.
That would be like breaking from diet = banned of meats.
Well, and this is just my opinion, because the olympics are a very professional and official thing, and they don’t want to encourage unprofessional behaviour like this..
because it's considered disrespectful, shows the world that you're a bad sport. The Olympics, are a time of coming together and competing honorably with your fellow man. Not to mention rude, plus it paints your country in a bad way because you're representing that country. in layman's terms: Unsportsmanlike conduct.
Hate the awful music bumpers...
Oh, yes…Ben Johnson…who taught Canadians that we needed to wait for the urine sample to be cleared after Donovan Bailey won the 100m to celebrate the victory.
Wasn’t Usain Bolt stripped of a relay medal cos his team-mate was caught using steroids?
it wasn't steroids & the substance found in his teammates system was band in 2010 two years after the 2008 Olympics
Andrea Raducan should have her Gold medal reinstated! A team doctor accidentally gave her a cold pill which was banned at the time. It now (for a while now) not a banned substance.
Great video, but important to note the following: Every time you mention the Modern Pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, the picture you show is of David Hemery, the 1968 Olympic champion at 400m Hurdles. The picture is from the Olympic final. For some reason, Google shows that picture a lot when referring to Liljenwall, so it's an honest mistake. It's just worth noting - Hemery was NOT a cheat!
Glad someone else spotted this!
If the IOC is disagreeing with you, you’re probably doing something right.
This is a solid list. I might have included the 1972 USA basketball team who refused the Silver medal because they were cheated. (No, they weren't stripped of the Silver, but it can be argued they were stripped of the Gold.)
I would too, but since they weren't being poor sports (I.E. teasing or name calling), I can understand. The IOC still has their medals locked away.
Ironic that Jim Thorpe was called "the greatest Olympic athlete" by the king of Sweden and then after the game, he got stripped off from his medals.
It was sad but the ending was bitter sweet because 30 years later, his medals was finally return to his children after he died.
I wish that he would have gotten the medals back when he was still alive.
I like to steal those metals and give them to those people and give them back to to the people who won it because I feel bad for them
I think number 10 was unfair The Swedish fella never really done anything wrong by just having a beer to calm his nerves down I don’t think I should’ve took his medal away for that I think that’s just stupid plus beer doesn’t really make you any better at doing anything anything makes you worse hats off to him for winning a bronze medal 🥉 after drinking a beer 🍺
How is drinking two beers doping? If anything that makes his performance more impressive
For those commenting about the first one: yeah, it sucks but you have to understand that dope testing didn't occur at the olympics until 1968, it was still in it's infancy. Alcohol, has been on that list until 2018, when it was removed as an "illegal" substance. I also see comments about that track runner who was DQ'd, and again I get it. But you have to realize that Marijuana isn't legal in every country, Also just because it's legal in certain states doesn't mean it's federally legal, people seem get that confused a lot.
P.S. the reason the 1972 US mens basketball team isn't on this list is because they were cheated out of the medal, it wasn't sour grapes or doping, people felt the team was cheated.
Wait I'm a bit confused so Ibragim refused the bronze medal is it that he was cheating or was it that he was doping?
Neither is my guess. I'd assume it was unsportsmanlike conduct.
@@drfreud65 Maybe 🤷
@@mlggamer5296 I tried to look it up after reading your question-- it was a good question! Probably 10 websites later, I gave it my best educated guess, lol.
@@drfreud65 that's fine
Imagine if someone is very talented, but too young to complete.
The coach in Cool Runnings (played by the late John Candy) had his medals taken away when he got caught cheating. Did that happen to him in real life?
No.
He was amalgamation of several characters. The coach didn't actually exist.
Again, why do some countries don't like to have a bronze medal? Kinda sad...a bronze medal should motivate an athlete positively 0
I think being underage isn't justified reason to strip medal, if anything it should be a handicap
Not sure if it was true or not, but the one black athlete in the 1968 got his metals taken away after being able to acknowledge the unfair treatment of black Americans. That is totally uncalled for, I would think the idiots would be more sympathetic to the issue. Sadly I don't even know if he ever got them back. Sad it is not on the list because if true, it would be a huge deal.
Thorpe got ripped off
Dong Fangxiao was 14? Nadia Comaneci was 14 too, and I had always thought that led to why there are age restrictions in place now -- something I was wondering about when I heard that the Skateboarding medallists are 14 and 13 as well...
they won gold too.
The minimum age for gymnasts was to changed 15 in 1981, and then 16 in 1997.
Age restrictions are set by the sports federation, not by IOC. That's why they vary by sport.
Jim Thorpe looked like Brock Lesnar’s Great Grand pappy
The Chinese are ALWAYS pushing/ignoring the age limit, especially in gymnastics and diving!😠👵🇺🇸
Nothing more depressing for athletes who worked their heart and soul to get a metal, only to lose it all due to either a technicality or doing something so stupid that will forever haunt them.
Ya! Like the performance enhancing drug ones when they knew they weren’t allowed, they shouldn’t get the medals. But the one who had taken asthma medicine and had told the people about it!
If you act like a sore loser in front of: The host country, your fans, the country you represent and on television, then you deserve to be disqualified or banned. Just take the loss, there's always next time.
I just going to be honest that Ben Johnson one is disappointing. SMH man SMH
What about the fighter with weighed gloves??
I feel bad for Dong Fangixao because she was forced to change her age by her country and I don’t feel like it was her fault
How is drinking alc doping????? Now that’s just silly like tf,
Man. Some of these are just stupid.
7 was just unfair as hell.
The IOC should reverse that under age ruling also. If you can compete & obtain an Olympic Medal at 14 years old, that is an accomplishment in itself. I do not see how that would be cheating. It would be more a disadvantage to be under aged.
As somebody else said, it is more for the safety of young people because the standards are really high
But a biological male twice the age of their competitors is just fine?
I can't believe you haven't included romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan - 2000 Sydney.
its not like *olimpians* arnt paid or worst *gets paid in merchendice* and they need to *pay for there own equipment/training*
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Lance got one ball and still rode that bike like a champ? Plus ALL the others riders where doping? They just mad because our dope won. You good Lance
The first 1 is very unfair,if anything alcohol would have slowed him down, in no way did drinking a couple of beers help his performance
nothing made me happier than seeing the womens soccer team lose
Jim Thorpe is the greatest athlete of all time. Change my mind.
Andreea Raducan
That just seems so wrong 30 years after he died.
Well it’s nice that they still want to set the record straight, but ya “they reinstated his medals- 30 years after he died.”
@@ashleynature2778 It's the least they could have done, But yes I definitely agree.
And his medals were replicas of the original medals. Someone stole his actual medals not too long after he was stripped of his medals. The medals have never been found.
@@ashleydowney1222 I thought you can get more f up But I guess I was wrong.
Ahhh yes, I'm expecting Lance to be on here. Some of them were unfair though.
I know one of them would be underage thank to the picture on the front and of course it would be gymnastics as I am fairly sure that others have been underage when they were in the Olympic doing gymnastics, ie she is not the only underage gymnast.
Many Soviet and Romanian gymnasts were underage, they have never been stripped of their medals.
I was distracted on how the guy could pronounce all the names right
What do you think these athletes would be like if they didn't lose their medals?
2 beers? That one has to be the biggest robbery!
THEY HAVE LEFT THEIR COUNTRY DOWN!
Cheaters never win.
@matt allen that's right.
They should make a sub-Olympics just for cheaters, like in video games.
Nadzeya Ostapchuk gold medal was stripped for doping, in the womens shot put in 2012. If you do a second list this should be added.
the min age to compete at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004 was 15 years old it went to 16 in 2008 prior it had been 14 until 1996. you forgot to mention Andrea Raducan who was stripped of her team Gold medal and Silver medal on Vault for cold medicine use due to it containing Pseudo Ephedrine
So why is it that when you don't accept a medal you are just banned.
Well, and this is just my opinion, because the olympics are a very professional and official thing, and they don’t want to encourage unprofessional behaviour like this..
@@ashleynature2778 makes senses
Dong Fangxiao fell foul of a change in minimum age since the previous olympics if the minimum age had always been 16 Nadia Comăneci might not have become the star she did.
I still feel like it's unfair 2 take her medal away at 14 years old since it's the Chinese coaches sld of clarify her age instead of lie 2 them.
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You should do ones that tested positive but weren’t stripped….
Surprised the Russian doping scandal at Sochi wasn’t mentioned.
2:00-2:21 I’m struggling to find this clip. Does anyone know where I can find it?
If a 14-year-old can compete, then let them. So many stupid arbitrary rules.
No way. The rules are there for athlete protection. We don't want to create the possibility of very young athletes being abused and put through all these horrendous methods in order to push themselves to the level that the Olympics requires. So please consider these realities before you call them stupid rules.
@@rus1285 the fact you think those realities weren't taking into consideration is alarming. No one said anything about overtraining or abusing athletes, of any age. No adults should be abused either. I thought this went without saying...
lance armstrong is a punk. however, he never tested positive. he finally admitted it after countless other people said they saw or supplied him. so that sounds like a WADA problem and not a Lance problem.
Number 7 was sad
All athletes performing at the highest level dope.
Are they really _cheater_ when everybody else is doing the same thing? No, they were just unlucky.
Some earned the shame...many didn't deserve it!
I don't get why people are suddenly banned from sports just because they didn't accept their badges.
Poor sportsmanship.
Also probably because the olympics are a very professional and official thing, and they don’t want to encourage unprofessional behaviour like this..
My question is did the IOC send someone to these people's houses to get the medals? Especially China?
Bill Burr on Lance Armstrong: our roided up guy beat your roided up guy. Lol