Olympics History: Biggest scandals in Olympic Games
The HinduIn its rich history, the Olympics Games have seen meteoric highs and lows. Thorpe died in 1953, and the IOC reinstated his gold medals 30 years later, stating that a protest against Thorpe’s Olympics appearance was not made within 30 days of the 1912 Games. 1972: Black September in the ‘Cheerful Games’; Soviet robs a US gold The second week of the 1972 Munich Olympics witnessed the death of 11 members of the Israeli contingent besides a West German policeman at the hands of the Palestinian terrorist organisation, Black September. The Games witnessed a lowly 80 participating nations while 29 countries that boycotted the event, featured in an ‘Olympics Boycott Games’ - the Liberty Bell Classic in Philadelphia. In a cold response four years later during the Los Angeles Olympics, the Soviet Union and its allies pulled out of the Games, citing security concerns and staged its own ‘Friendship Games’ across nine countries.
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