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The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history, both the Summer and Winter Games have been the subject of scandals, controversies and incidents. Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games.
Various concerns and controversies arose in relation to the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris including security, [1] human rights issues, Israel's participation amidst the Israel–Hamas war, and allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
B-Girl Raygun of Team Australia looks on before competing in the B-Girls Round Robin during Day 14 of Breaking - Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on August 9, 2024, in Paris, France.
Breaking down all of the developments in the continuing scoring controversy over Jordan Chiles' Olympic floor exercise. Paris gymnastics scoring saga and the fate of Jordan Chiles' bronze medal ...
Australian Olympian Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has apologized to the breaking community for the backlash caused by her controversial performance at the Paris Games, but insisted that her “record ...
Breaking was introduced at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as an optional (temporary) sport. Despite the United States being the birthplace of breakdancing, the sport is not set to be included at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; on its omittance in the latter, the IOC's sports director Kit McConnell stated that "It's up to each local organizing committee to determine which ...
Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris.
A number of concerns and controversies arose leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The games were postponed until July 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . The IOC stated that their Japanese partners and the former prime minister Shinzo Abe "made it very clear" in 2020, "that Japan could not manage a ...