Wilson Kipketer losing to doper Schumann and then doper Borzakovskiy, never getting the gold.
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Jim Ryun getting robbed in Munich.
Shorter getting robbed in Montreal. -
Flojo's 10.49
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Ryun was not robbed. He took a risk running in the pack and has to accept that it was not the smartest tactic. He should have led, pushed the pace, stayed ahead, and avoided the hustling in the pack. His fault for lacking the courage to front run.
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When Pre was cheated out of the 3rd Gold Medal at the Olympics.
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Doping Morracans, especially El G.
Doping Russians.
Doping American Sprinters. -
Jim Thorpe
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1912........... wrote:
Jim Thorpe
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EPOpians wrote:
Doping Morracans, especially El G.
Doping Russians.
Doping American Sprinters.
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Wasn't there a guy or two who made the Oly team in 68, I'm thinking 5 or 10k, but then they re-ran the distance events at altitude and they got bumped?
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The officials cheating Francesco Panetta to WC silver in 1987 by messing with the lap counter.
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The Kenyans/Ethiopians left off their Olympic Marathon teams.
I specifically thinking of Kebede in 2012. -
John Carlos & Tommie Smith having their medals taken away after the ceremony.
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IAAF recognizing Chinese 1993 results as valid. Sure there are other frauds, but these fail the smell test so miserably that they should have been discounted right away and not legitimized by our "ruling body".
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Webb never winning Oly gold in the 15.
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Dave Patrick being left off the Olympic team in the 1500 in 1968
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1980 Games
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Russia and Turkey being allowed to continue in international competition.
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Noduce wrote:
Ryun was not robbed. He took a risk running in the pack and has to accept that it was not the smartest tactic. He should have led, pushed the pace, stayed ahead, and avoided the hustling in the pack. His fault for lacking the courage to front run.
He's talking about Munich when he was fouled in the semi but not reinstated to the final -
Ben Johnson winning the World Championships in 1987 and the 1988 Olympics was the biggest injustice in US sprinting history.
Most posters on LetsRun weren't around in the 1980s, but that was back when sprinting was big in the USA... Carl Lewis, Calvin Smith, FloJo, Evelyn Ashford, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. School kids who weren't runners knew who these sprinters were.
Carl Lewis spoke out against Johnson, without naming him by name, and caught a huge amount of flack for it. Ironically, Johnson's doping tarnished Lewis's image. He never recovered even after Johnson was outed.
