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Caso Genoa (2005) Brazilian football match-fixing scandal (2005) – a match fixing scandal involving referees in Brazil. 2006 Calciopoli scandal – a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving several major teams, including three of the country's four qualifiers to the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League.
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. Some countries have boycotted the Games on various ...
Unsportsmanlike conduct. Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called untrustworthy behaviour or ungentlemanly fraudulent or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship or anti fair-play) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct. Examples include verbal abuse, taunting ...
Doping in sport. In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes, as a way of cheating. As stated in the World Anti-Doping Code by WADA, doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the anti-doping rule violations outlined in Article 2.1 through Article 2.11 of the Code. [1]
The New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, colloquially known as " Bountygate ", [1][2][3][4] was an illegal program in which the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) placed bounties on opposing players. The consensus around the program was that if a targeted player was knocked out of a game, a bonus would be paid to the ...
As of Wednesday, August 14, the petition has reached over 29,000 signatures of its 35,000 goal. Raygun sparked controversy after her performance at the Olympics, where she lost her three breaking ...
Andro, DHEA, stanozolol, testosterone, and nandrolone, or derivates (see below) are banned anabolic steroids. Other banned anabolic agents include clenbuterol, tibolone, zeranol, zilpaterol, and selective androgen receptor modulators. [7] While a few of the banned drugs are endogenous, that is they are normally produced in the human body, most ...
The 2013 Lebanese football match-fixing scandal involved 24 players, with two (Ramez Dayoub and Mahmoud El Ali) being banned from the sport for life. [33][34] In December 2013, six people in Britain, including Blackburn forward DJ Campbell, were arrested for allegedly fixing football games.