Olympic Games Scandals
- The Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan incident (1994)
- Johann Mühlegg - Salt Lake City scandal - finished first in the 50 km classical race in Cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympic Games on February 23, 2002, but was disqualified from that race and was expelled from the Games the next day after testing positive for darbepoetin.
- 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
- IOC bribery - see 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal
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