Top 30 Times Olympic Athletes Cheated
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Nothing violates the spirit of the Olympics more than cheating. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most shocking times athletes broke the rules at the Summer and Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Games. Our countdown of the times Olympic athletes cheated includes Crystal Cox, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Tonya Harding, Russia's Doping Scandal, and more! Which sport would you like to see in the Winter or Summer Olympic Games? E-sports? Darts? Dodgeball? Or something else? Let us know below!
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For me, it's Geoffrey from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 😂
Please omit the cute movie clips from your videos. They're cheap and not really humorous. Thank you.
A correction: In the video you state at 16:20 that Marion Jones spent 6 months in jail "over the ordeal". This is false! She spent 6 months in jail for check fraud. Please correct that with a information in the description or in a pinned comment.
Please continue to use cute movie clips in your videos. They're cheap, but quite hilarious 😅
Once again, the spineless yanks whine about Ben Johnson while deliberately NOT mentioning that Carl Lewis was just as dirty. The USOC covered up positive tests. Lewis even admitted in 2003 that he was dirty.
I’d like a word with the editor who decided that watch mojo needed a clip of some tv show saying a random word from the previous sentence every 10 seconds…
Just came here to say the exact same thing!
It's very irritating
Agreed!!
Came here to say this!! Do better Watch Mojo!!
They haven't always done that! What's going on?? It's stupid.
It would suck to "lose" to the cheaters and have to watch them celebrate all throughout the Olympics to find out like 2 months later that you actually won.
I think it would be worse if the won and you lost to them and you knew they had definitely cheated but they were getting away with it and there was no way anyone could prove definitively that they had cheated so you had to live knowing you were cheated out of a win
Been watching a lot of Karl Jobst' videos lately regarding video game cheaters, and at the beginning, I wondered why anyone would care so much. It's just a video game, right? Well, maybe, but then I saw a video where he showed many people completing amazing challengs in the Souls series of games, which even without challenges are hard games. Their cheers and tears of joy are just amazing. And it's that moment, that day of glory that is stolen when someone cheats. So, eff all cheaters.
Also, juat like with the Olympics, there's money to be made with video game world record breakers, too. Invites to events and sponsorships. So, a cheater is also stealing potential money from someone.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley People spend their entire lives for a chance to represent themselves and their country in the Olympics-it’s more than just a “game” for them
@@tsarnicholasii419 I know, I was just comparing the stolen glory from the Olympics to something recent I'd been watching. At the end of the day, moments of joy and triumph and pride were ripped away from the deserving person.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Ye, cheers. Best of luck in the Olympics mate
The 1904 marathon was such a mess the guy cheating wasn't even the most insane part. The second place finisher, eventual gold medalist, was accidentally fed rat poison with his breakfast. He was severely ill, projectile vomiting and hallucinating throughout the entire marathon. How he won is beyond me.
Worse was the queen of england increasing the Marathon distance for her grandson to watch the finish from the balcony. Because of that instead of 40.000km it’s 42,8163xyz… A special case of cheating; just wanted to express my dissatisfaction.
If I ever run a Marathon, I’ll stop at 40.000.
and to think that nr 3 and 4 actually took a nap along the way lol
Number one should be Geoffrey taking a cab to get to first place during a marathon in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 😂
Facts
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Lmaoooo yes!!
😂😂😂😂
Someone kinda did that in real life in the boston marathon.
"It's only cheating if you get caught." - some Olympic schmuck probably
They should do what Australias oh so great cricket captain did to ensure another never wouldn't play ever again for us: Cry false tears
"I will break you"-Russia (any time someone in any sort of competition tries to remind them of a rule).
"It's not a war crime the first time." - Canada probably
Actually a culture and moral code depending on the culture😢
Good point: why the hell do they try it?? There are tests! Won’t the video cover this question?
1:12 always felt bad for Kamilla, she didn't do it intensionally, her coaches are to blame, the Olympics was suppose to be a good experience for her but it was tragic, she was so young and suffered excessive stress and now her career is affected from being banned 😔
I'm booing this because it has way too many movie clips in it. thank you
I do not think it's fair to classify Jim Thorpe as a cheater just because he broke the ridiculously strict Olympic rules of the period by DARING to play sports professionally!
Yeah. Nowadays, EVERYBODY pretty much does
Rules are rules.
@@castleanthrax1833 Yeah, but it doesn't mean that they are always fair!
@@MasterOfViewership I bet there was an element of racism behind the decision as well, because of his Native American heritage!
@@user-gi8pk9uc7q
When the rules are they same for everyone, that's the very definition of fair.
a lot of American and Russians doping. the space race just never stopped
And only one country is banned from competing. Western hypocrisy at it's finest.
And its funny how Russia got banned but the USA who drug tests its own athletes and the rest of the world is just spoused to take it a faith isn't banned. It baffles me that the rest of the world is drug tested by WADA. But the usa athletes are exempt and drug tested by the USDA. Basically testing themselves. Then the usa complains the most about other countries like Russia and China.
It's a shame that the US has never received a ban as it was done for Russia. In my eyes, both countries are the furthest from sportsmanship I could ever imagine, so many cheaters and their committees are looking away, or worse, covering this sh*t.
What everyone forgets about Lance Armstrong is that he only ever competed in the Tour de France. Yes the Tour de France is the crown jewel of cycling but there’s a lot of other races with almost as much prestige and history. Every other cyclist completes a whole season of races which usually includes at least 2 of the Grand Tours. It’s like a tennis player scheduling a whole year of training and preparation specifically for Wimbledon and not even competing in any of the other majors or tournaments.
Even if he was never caught, Armstrong would never be the greatest cyclist in history. “No one could beat him” is misleading because he hardly ever raced. Compare him to Eddy Merckx , the actual greatest, who won 5 Tour de France, 5 Giro D’Italia & 1 Vuelta Espana. He also won every “Monument” race at least twice and every one day classic and the world championship
I don’t understand why people say, “What everyone forgets…” or similar things. Are you polling people to see if they in fact had forgotten? There’s like… no way of knowing that most people have forgotten something like that.
Tonya Harding should had been #1. I don't know about any other case in sports where physical harm was used to make sure that a competitor became unable to compete.
I live in Metro-Detroit and that's where the knee clubbing took place. It was absolute mayhem when that happened.
You can add the Canada women’s soccer team now 😂
Wait what happened with them?
@@kilarthmacThey (the women's soccer team) used a drone to spy over another teams practice 😂 The coach got in trouble both by the Olympics and lethally and the team had 6 points taken away from them. I think some of the team members might have been taken off as well
@@Wot0-0wow
@@Wot0-0 How patriotic!! Pun intended!
🚴 Never in my wildest dreams could I have ever imagined, that at the age of 62 I would have exactly the same amount of “Tour de France🇫🇷” wins as Lance Armstrong!
The scandal Canada is facing now is severe. They were docked 6 points in Women's soccer, so even though they won their first group match, they're at -3 PTS and still have to face the OTHER winner of their first group match
-3 points are essentially impossible. If they lost, they are out of the tournament. It's very hard because the other opponents are France and Colombia.
@@rafaelamadeus5155 no, they won, but were penalized b/c of the drone incident. If I was the IOC, I would've banned Canada from the 2026 and 2028 games and also asked FIFA to choose a new co-host with the U.S. and Mexico for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
@@MasterOfViewership Thank fuck we don't have an overreactor in charge
@@MasterOfViewershipOnly ban us from the soccer event, we should be permitted for the other events
Awful. What that coach did is tacky and crazy. Probably couldn't get much information that way anyway.
I don't think the players would have known about this. Too bad they have to pay. 😮
Stop with the split second completely irrelevant clips that just happen to be repeating a word Rebecca said. Please. It's unnecessary.
Couldn't agree more.
So a 1/5 of the cheating happened at the Sydney 2000 games.
There were new tests and early forms of the blood passports started that year. Some of the tracked markers were kept secret and these were what caught the US sprinters later (IIRC).
Actual PED’s is understandable but to be stripped for an over the counter cold medicine you were taking bc you were actually sick is ridiculous.
Fame from cheating is only temporary but being known for it is a permanent stain in your record.
Nobody would be talking about the BlackSocks in modern times if they hadnt cheated.
A stain, but their cheating often overlooked by accomplishments they otherwise probably never would have had. Look at the current status of many former US track and field athletes that we either know cheated or are indicated by the vast majority of the public.
Their fame is still there, most of them are still very wealthy and even some of their doping powered records still stand to this day.
@@basjansen3906Flo Jo was juiced to the gills and after random testing was introduced, she retired the very next day.
Wow - an investigative journalist joined the team to expose the scandal! I had never heard that part of the story.
I wasn't quite sure whether my ears heard that bit correctly, but thanks for clarifying. That story is astounding enough without that extra bit of information.
As a Canadian, the Ben Johnson gold medal was for us the biggest. It was a huge moment in Canadian sports history.
I am partially convinced that the reason they investigated Cox and eventually caught her was her abysmal challenge performance on Survivor. She couldn’t do well in a challenge to save her life that season. Surely, that raised some eyebrows.
I never understood cheating, like it defeats the whole feeling of winning
I agree 100%. But for some people, all that matters is the fame and praise. How they come by it doesn't matter. Also, when it comes to major international competitions like the Olympics, they're often pressured or outright forced by the powers that be win by any means necessary to make the country look good.
I think this is a naive approach since olympics is a completely different beast with its politics and economics. It's very discourahing to actually go back and read a little as to how much doping scandal there was (that was detected). I keep trying to distract myself from that during Paris to actually enjoy the games.
Some cultures stress winning by any means necessary. Don't care if it's cheating or not.
@@zavdab5238 for me I'd rather lose on my own merits than ever be unsure if I didn't win from them
Money and fame. You can become a rich celebrity by cheating and even after being caught many people don't know, don't want to know or even care. As long as their hero from their country won on the day.
For example many people call Carl Lewis the greatest ever, and talk about Ben Johnson as the cheat that almost took "his" 100m gold in '88.
Cheating pays off.
@WatchMojoThe enjoyment of the video was ruined with the clips from movies/tv shows inserted.
please make a video on Olympic judges and suspicious judgements!
It seems that those who wish to cheat should stop and think about their teammates. Since that one person's cheating could jeopardize the marks of the entire team.
Just think of all the gold medals that Ryan Lochte might have won this year if he didn't get traumatized from being robbed at gunpoint in Rio back in 2016.
😂😂😂
Lochte is a clown with a single digit IQ
0:30 So that's how A-Train character was made in The Boys show.
A-Train wants some freaking justice.
Please stop splicing in silly movie snippets before or after some supposedly "clever" quip in the script, especially when you're covering a somewhat serious topic like cheating. The Olympics can kickstart a career and cheating can take it all away.
Right?! I mean… if it ties in, sure, but these clips just take a one or two word from the script and then insert a random clip that has the same one or two words. Lazy, stupid, and degrading to the rest of the content.
Not to mention how much it unnecessarily extends an already too long video without adding anything of value.
There's a special place in hell for all the people involved in the Spanish paralympic basketball team. Utterly disgraceful
The IOC aren't exactly saints either
It wasn't kamila who should have been banned it was her coaches. She was a child did it look like she had any control in the matter? No. So why blame her? Blame the immature adults who thought it was a good idea to destroy a child's dream
The efforts of all legitimate players must be respected! Thanks for so interesting and valuable video as always 😂😂😂
Guess we can add the coach for Canada’s Women’s Soccer Team, after that Drone Espionage
i think she was just spying on the other women
What is the reason for the random movie/television clips? They're irrelevant to the video and all they do is repeat what was just said
I actually feel sorry for that 15 year old Russian skater. I have to think she didn't have a say in whether or not to take that drug. It was most likely forced upon her by her coaches and the rest of the PTB that control the very lives of the athletes there in Russia. And yet she gets all the blame. Sad.
The Beijing 2022 saga wasn't just about Valieva's failed doping result, iykyk. The drama was insane.
The United States team finally got their Figure Skating team Gold Medal 900 days after the event.
Lance Armstrong is only number 21? Wow, I wonder what the top 20 looks like.
It’s probably because as far as the Olympics go, cycling isn’t a very popular event. As far as cheating in sports in general goes I’d imagine he’d be higher. Because the Tour de France isn’t the Olympics.
I remember when the Michelle Smith scandal broke out, it was the only thing my family could discuss for weeks.
Your boring then
@@Riske236 That's a pretty boring and lazy comment, so well done.
@@WolfetoneRebel1916 great reply 🤦🏻♀️
Thorpe was a professional in sports that he did not compete in at the Olympics, other athletes did the on some rare occasions years after he was stripped of his medals.
What they did to Thorpe was disgusting. The fact that he was a Native American I'm sure had nothing to do with it ... 🫤
If you're gonna talk about Ben Johnson doping in the 100m in 1988, you need to talk about all SIX of the eight runners on the track that day, including Carl Lewis. Ben took the fall and made the biggest headlines, but they all tested positive for PEDs both before and after that race.
They tested all the athletes from 1 of the Tour de France and 15th place was the first athlete without any band substances...
We need Olympic games where athletes can juice up all they can, that will be something to watch
You are watching it now
Daniel Tosh has a good bit about that!
The Mutant Games.
The Juice Games.
So we wouldn't celebrate the athleticism, we'd be celebrating the gear they were on.
The worst cheating was 2 men pretending to be women beating up on women in boxing.
I would love to see the Irish Sport Hurling included as a demonstration sport. It's incredibly fast-paced and physical. Many people call it the fastest game on grass.
Lance Armstrong cheating upsets me just as much today as it did when I first heard about.
How could anyone prove you were on steroids 10 years later
They keep urine samples for years until they are able to develop more sophisticated tests for them.
funny how we would have never heard of most of these people for winning, but they will forever live in youtube compilations and the history books for their cheating
For weightlifting there would have been a way better one. London 2012 94kg category, 8/21 Lifters got tested positive 7/10 from the A group. The guy who came 5th got the gold medal, 8th place got silver, 9th got bronze
And in the olympics there are way more people on gear than get tested positive
Over 100 years to restore Jim Thorpes legacy…..what a joke
*And now the Canadian women’s national soccer team.*
Oh, yeah. My friend and I were just talking about that last night.
The Nancy Kerrigan/Tanya Harding scandal will always live in my head rent free
Why? Why?😭😭
The mental gymnastics that one must go through to believe you've won after cheating are mind-boggling.
Usually the rationale is, "everybody cheats, so I have to cheat just to make it fair!". It doesn't make it right, but I can see why some people would feel that way.
Lesson is dont cheat good list 👏👏👏🥇
No short cuts in life
I'm pretty much against performance-enhancing substances... Except caffeine. I got to get some coffee and cola...
Oh, and Zoloft, as well.
😂
The cheaters always get caught eventually, medals get lost, and careers get destroyed.
Why can't they learn?
I wish the video addressed this natural question!
"Hey, Beavis... These people are cheaters...Huh Huh."
"Yeah! Yeah! They're liars! And should be FIRED! Heh Heh."
Russia whole history of cheaters lol
USA and doping never ending love story😂
"everybody cheats" is definitely something only cheaters say
Doing ped and still losing is crazy
Like Cartman in the Special Olympics.
No. 1 is wild 😂
Sim Racing should be an olympic sport. Things like MOBAs are too chaotic and unfathomable for ordinary people who aren't into those games to understand.
No, no stuff like video games should never be in the Olympics, it’s not a sport, it’s a hobby
@@DarkFlameVee Sports are hobbies. They're "competitive pastimes". Try telling Max, Lando and Charles that sim racing is "just a hobby." There is very little difference these days between competitive gaming and more traditional sports. I've come away from an intense half hour sim race a little soggy with sweat. At the last Olympics there was apparently a trial of esports being Olympic events IIRC. Sim racing was one of them but, IMO, it was the wrong game. Gran Turismo isn't a sim. But they also had some weird games that I had no idea how they were going to work. Think one was a virtual archery game.
Droopy:"You know what?"
"Cheaters never win!"😮💨
Imagine training for your whole life to become the best at what you love, what you're passionate about. Something you made many scarifices for..... Only to cheat.
Russia has been doing that for decades
The movie Icarus discusses this, and thanks to it we got the Russian Olympic Committee and after the Ukraine war they were expelled from the Olympics
2:22 Nah I don't have sympathy for cheats, please don't blame the Cold War on her decision.
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yes for Thorpe!! good to see one of us indigenous peoples get a win.
I’d love to see Roller Derby in the Olympics someday 😻
And Tonya Harding shouldn't be on this list, her on-again, off-again husband and his idiotic friends should be on it!
I mean, she orchestrated the attack. And the attack was done so she could get an advantage in a competition. That’s still cheating.
Whyyyy meeeeeeee
@@SenatorArmstrong2018We don't know that for a fact!
@@user-gi8pk9uc7q I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you 🙄
Oh please 😒😑🙄
Didn’t Lance Armstrong say after he was found cheating for all those years that he would do it again??? That’s insane!! 😱He’s fkd his career and forever known as a cheater! 😳
He did
His cheating makes Lance’s biography title (It’s not about the bike) slightly ironic
Why do you have Lance Armstrong and not Tyler Hamilton? Hamilton won a gold medal.
You are lumping Armstrong's profession career to make it look more severe.
Amazing video Rebecca from watch mojo of cheating in the Olympic by cheaters,fantastic job.
So Marion Jones went to jail for what Lance Armstrong became not only a multi millionaire for, but also an autofill when you type the name “Lance”.
Unreal.
She went to jail for lying under oath to tell the truth.
@@OttoByOgraffey he did the same
I subscribed on the sheer fact that you use real people instead AI voices! Thank you!
Justice for horse camiro 😢😿
Correctly the title should be "Top 30 Times Olympic Athletes Cheated and got caught" , otherwise the Top 30 cheaters are those who won multiple gold medals, but did not get caught.
The badminton one bruh, they didn't even try at all to hide it xD
"Does this make me a bad person?" --new Nike commercial
The Tangled edit quite literally made me burst out laughing.
Of course, Tonya Harding has to be in this video.
Since the Nancy Kerrigan incident, Tonya got blacklisted from the sport of figure-skating and rightfully so!
She attempted murder
I wish the Olympics would go back to their "Amateurs Only" policy.
Wonder where the Canadian women’s soccer team would be on this list
The cheat for Onishenko's epee was a simple button in the grip that connected the 2 wires...not that stupid bad circuit board rig....that wouldn't even FIT into an epee guard.
As a former fencer, I find the stunt pulled by Boris Onishchenko utterly stupid. I don't know how he thought he could get away with it. His opponents would know immediately whether they had been hit or not, I certainly did. As for that ridiculous circuit board, words fail me.
@@ianbentley-rb7hs The KGB probably told him to cheat...this WAS the 70s, after all.
The circuit board thing was probably done before the producers didn't think the audience would believe how simple the witch actually was.
Banned for 4 years? But the Olympics comes every 4 lol
I personally don't consider the badminton one to be cheating. I don't really consider it to be wrong anyway, but even if I did, there is a big difference between using the rules in your favor and cheating.
Lance Armstrong is definitive proof, that if you do something wrong, just never admit wrongdoing, and you’ll be fine. As soon as you admit to doing something, you are screwed.
How is dodgeball not an Olympic event I’d wanna see that
Stripping Johann Mühlegg of his Olympic titles hardly corrected the situation, he completely ruined the 30k race and killed off what could have been an epic moment in Olympic history for Ole Einar Bjørndalen.
I would argue Lance Armstrong to be much higher, like top 5. His scandal was so big it is usually the first thing that comes to mind when growing up knowing not just Olympic athletes but athletes in general.
yes but was not huge because olympics was huge because tour the france which is in cycling 1mio times more important then olympic games
Neither Thorpe cheated nor the guy who did the horse dressage. I ended this after the Thorpe one.
5:00 Can i just say his face is so hard to look at?😂
I'm not at all of relay teams switching members in and out. Just use the same four and then there's no discussion of what to do if one cheats.
Emperor Nero 😂😂😂
And these are ones who got caught.
Nr 1 still hurts, one of my clients went there and was so proud and so where we and if you then hear about this kind of cheating…….there no words😢
My all time Olympic gold medal for cheating: the East German (ahem) Women's Swim team.
Silver goes to Tonya Harding.
Bronze goes to Ben Johnson