Russian star Kamila Valieva is at the center of the biggest doping story of the Beijing Games. Here are the most infamous scandals from past Olympics
If Valieva ends up being punished, she'd be one of the most famous Olympic athletes ensnared in a doping scandal. Here are some others:The most famous case of trimetazidine in sports doping involved Chinese swimmer Sun Yang. Sun served a three-month ban in 2014 after testing positive for the stimulant. The ruling was not made public by China’s anti-doping agency until after the ban ended, a controversial decision.
Then in 2018, the three-time Olympic champion refused to let anti-doping officials leave his home with a sample of his blood, reportedly ordering someone from his entourage to smash the casing of a blood vial with a hammer so that it would not be valid for testing.
Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the International Olympic Committee at the time, said that penalties against Johnson and others were an indication that “we have won the battle against doping.”One of the biggest American stars of the Sydney Games, Marion Jones won three gold medals and two bronzes. In 2007, she admitted lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs. She spent six months in jail and the IOC stripped her of all five medals.
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