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The main orchestrators of the ban were the Swedish officials that were the core of the IOC bureaucracy, including IOC president Sigfrid Edström, who claimed that Nurmi had received too much money for his travel expenses.

Most embarrassing moments in olympics professional#

Nine-time Finnish Olympic gold medallist Paavo Nurmi was found to be a professional athlete and barred from running in the Games.

ġ932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, California, United States

Germany was again not invited to the Games.

Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, and Turkey were not invited to the Games, being the successor states of the Central Powers which were defeated in World War I.

Budapest had initially been selected over Amsterdam and Lyon to host the Games, but as the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been a German ally in World War I, the French-dominated International Olympic Committee transferred the Games to Antwerp in April 1919.

The 1916 Summer Olympics were to have been held in Berlin, German Empire, but were cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I.ġ920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium.

ġ916 Summer Olympics (not held due to World War I) The gold medals were restored to Thorpe's children in 1983, 30 years after his death. In solidarity, the decathlon silver medalist, Hugo Wieslander, refused to accept the medals when they were offered to him.

American athlete Jim Thorpe was stripped of his gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon after it was learned that he had played professional minor league baseball three years earlier.

ġ912 Summer Olympics – Stockholm, Sweden team for the now-defunct Medley Relay, becoming the first African American medallist. Taylor later ran on the Gold medal-winning U.S. Halswelle was thus the only medallist in the 400 metres, a race which became the only walkover victory in Olympic history. Halswelle was to face the other two finalists William Robbins and John Taylor, but both were from the United States and decided not to contest the repeat of the final to protest the judges' decision. As a result of the disqualification, a second final race was ordered.

In the men's 400 metres, American winner John Carpenter was disqualified for blocking British athlete Wyndham Halswelle in a manoeuvre that was legal under American rules but prohibited by the British rules under which the race was run.

Grand Duchy of Finland competed separately from the Russian Empire, but was not allowed to display the Finnish flag.

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