Cases of Medals, Doping and DQ’s
With the Olympics a few month’s past, scandals and intrigue still plague the winners and losers. There were straightforward cases of banned substance use and there were muddled cases of mistaken identity whereas drugs were seen as another. These events have stripped many athletes of their medals in history but these medals being hard-earned, cheated or not are not always returned. As it turns out, the results of these contests are rarely revised once they have gone into the record books and the medals that are sure to come with them as well. Many deserving track and field athletes have lost pride and face due to accusations of wrong though they have denied all accounts and evidence has never been actually been sound.
A case with the sprinters of the past Olympics where two of the top athletes were stripped of their final scores due to erroneous steps, their stories have gone up and down as they go down in history as disqualified, their honor and hard-earned medals with the deemed winners. One case had an athlete disqualified then re-awarded the medal, not by the Olympic committee but by the opposing athlete who was given the medal who admits also having committed the same error as him. The damage is done, the medals are lost and the official record books not corrected.