Talk:List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies

1910
I removed the whole 1910 section for obvious reasons (scandal, yes; Olympic Games in 1910, no, so it's off-topic then, I should say). More checking to be done. --Wernher 04:03, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Not scandals
I have removed the boycott information, as boycotts are not scandals and in any case the subjects are better handled elsewhere. I have also removed the information about the 1996 bombing, as that too was not a scandal. Tragic, yes. Scandal, no. Prince of Canadat 05:41, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Name change
What was the purpose of the name change? The page title seem to fit just fine.--DanteAgusta (talk) 07:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

1998 Winter Olympics
Wasn't there some sort of scandal involving ice dancing at the 1998 Winter Olympics? See the following source: OLYMPICS: FIGURE SKATING; Ice Dancers Struggle To Prove Legitimacy. At the link, The New York Times states: "In ice dancing, concerns about fairness are nothing new. At the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, a judge in the dance event tape-recorded another judge trying to preordain the results. Dick Pound, a prominent International Olympic Committee official, said soon afterward that ice dancing should be stripped of its status as an Olympic event unless it could clean up the perception that its judging is corrupt." I am not that familiar with this topic, so if anyone wants to add this, please do so. Thanks. (64.252.124.238 (talk) 04:37, 13 November 2009 (UTC))

Location location location
This article could be made tremendously more readable if each section gave a location. 1912 Summer Olympics? Hell if I know where that took place without clicking. A lot of the time it is relevant to the scandals anyway (boycotts because of mother country participation in some nastiness, et cetera). Just paste a location on the end of each section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elecbullet (talk • contribs) 06:04, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Sri Lanka
Didn't Sri Lanka withdraw from the parade of nations once? AmericanLeMans (talk) 17:20, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to remove assault on construction worker.
I propose to remove the following paragraph from the article:


 * In July 2013, it was reported that a construction worker who'd been hired to construct housing in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics was accused by his supervisor of stealing wiring. The worker, Martiros Demerchyan, denied the allegations and offered a search of his house to support his claim. The supervisor relented, saying “Come by and pick up your pay.” But when Demerchyan arrived, he was met by several police officers who viciously beat him and sodomized him with a crow bar.[60] Records obtained from the medical center that treated the victim say that he arrived with “intestinal injuries obtained from penetration by a foreign object.”

Although this is obviously an unfortunate incident, which has some tertiary connection to the Olympic games, I do not think it rises to the level of being an Olympic Games scandal or controversy. It has no bearing on the athletic competition, nor any apparent international consequences. bd2412 T 13:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I see that this has now been removed. Cheers! bd2412  T 17:11, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Freedom of expression is a demand of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Olympic Games no exception
Too long? User:Cwmacdougall removed my edits as too long:  No valid reasons for deletion were expressed: WP:DELETE Language is not in my opinion a valid reason for deletion. Please feel free to correct language if needed. I make this shorter.


 * I point out that the purpose of all International cooperation including the Olympic Games is to promote peace and understanding between different nations. Any sort of violence does not in my opinion provide sustainable peace. Violence is worldwide disapproved. The conflicting interests should be negotiated and give the freedom of expression for everybody. As I understand Wikipedia promote the freedom of expression. I aimed to include critics showing that freedom of expression is a demand of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to experts these apply equally in every country and the Olympic Games do not make here any exception. Watti Renew (talk) 16:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Critics removal
New User:174.7.244.79 welcome to Wiki. I sent you wikilinks. Missing critics makes the page in my opinion nonneutral. Therefore it is better to have too much critics than to keep silent. Wiki trusts on readers to make their own judgement between the potentially conflicting views or stated points of views. For this reason I return your removal. Here key points are the five pilars WP:5. Watti Renew (talk) 17:24, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Removal concerned the Olympic Games controversies in general common to all games. This chapter was missing. Watti Renew (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

problem with 1968 olympics figures
The section on the 68 Mexican massacre states "more than two thousand protesters were shot by government forces" which is at odds with the separate article on the massacre which reports 44 killed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.38.150.18 (talk) 14:53, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Not a contradiction. Not everyone who gets shot dies. Silverpie (talk) 19:16, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

What about the ongoing cost controversy?
Could someone add some info about the ongoing controversy regarding the cost of hosting the games? It's all over the news right now, and cost concerns were all over the news during the London, Vancouver and Athens games. -- Gordon Ecker, WikiSloth (talk) 06:43, 8 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Disappointed in the Article because I was looking for the Olympic scandals outside of the sports. This topic in the Talk page seems to be the only place where it is even touched. Right now there is a major controversy in Japan about bribery around the 2020 Olympics involving official sponsorship status. Apparently some of the official sponsors bought the privilege through a committee member. However there have been MANY reports of such scandals in recent years and I came to Wikipedia in search of information about when and where those scandals started. Shanen (talk) 22:49, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Doping scandals
I think it would be important to add everything about the doping scandals.. Including Rick DeMont (using drugs approved by IOC, then having his medals stripped because he took those approved medications), the East Germans (who denied doping, then the athletes successfully sued the state for the effects of forced doping, but their medals were never redistributed?) and the banning of a large number from the Russian team in 2016 for a state-sponsored cover up. Not clear why Ryan Lochte isn't mentioned in the Rio scandal, when he was the main perpetrator. There more scandal to talk about! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.103.33 (talk) 00:07, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Generally modified
I removed mentions of individual doping offences as they are described in a detailed way here: Doping at the Olympic Games. Besides, I improved and extended some other paragraphs and removed mentions of "judging controversy" at the 2010 Olympics as no protest has been ever filed. Speaking of Lochtegate, it is mentioned twice in the 2016 Olympics section:


 * Ryan Lochte Rio controversy


 * Four U.S. swimmers, Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz, and Jack Conger, allegedly vandalized a gas station bathroom, and were forced to pay for the damage by two security men who brandished a gun at the swimmers before a translator arrived. The swimmers later claimed to have been pulled over and robbed by a gunman or gunmen wearing police uniforms. The Federal Police of Brazil detained Feigen, Bentz, and Conger (Lochte having already left the country) after it was determined that the swimmers had made false reports to the police of being robbed. All of the swimmers involved would receive various punishments and suspensions relating to their conduct during the incident.

Over linking and there things...
I'm worked through most of the article removing a great many links to the same major global countries - such as China, Russia or the United States. These really don't need to be linked at all - per WP:OLINK. I've also removed repetitive links to things like the IOC and tried to work on flow and removing tautologies and so on. There are some clear cases where there has been POV introduced that I've tried to work through as well, and other cases where there's way too much detail. There are probably some countries that could use linking on their first mention, but they can always be added back in. If anyone would like to take a look... Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:34, 2 August 2021 (UTC)