1. The first cheat in the history of athletics
Belok Spiridon was one of the 18 brave men who took part in the marathon at the first Olympics of the modern era, played in Athens (1896). The race had many alternatives and impacts, the result of an effort that many of these men were not accustomed. At mile 16 was leading the race three of the four foreign athletes (Australian Flack, Lermusiaux French, and American Blake), but the three do fail for not knowing regular forces. Spiridon Louis was the local who first entered the stadium to cross the finish line as the winner, among the cheers of the spectators. After him came two Greek athletes (Charilaos Vasilakpos and Spiridon Belok), although the latter was disqualified after finding he had traveled part of the journey in a carriage. A few kilometers from the finish, the only foreigner who was still in the race, the Hungarian Kellner, saw the young athlete Helen went boldly climbed into a car, so to reach the goal brought the case before the judges. According to chroniclers of the time, the teammates were pulled Belok the national emblem of his shirt outraged, and even the King George Kellner gave his gold watch as a relief. Thus, Spiridon Belok has gone down in history as the first modern Olympic cheat.
2. Disqualified in the craziest race
In the Olympic marathon in San Luis, 1904, American Fred Lorz reached the stage in first place, was hailed as a hero and even photographed with Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the president of the United States. But he soon discovered that between kilometers 15 and 30 had made the route climbed into a car. Lorz, in the picture below-was justified by saying that it was not premeditated, who had retired at kilometer 15 with severe cramping, and asked a spectator to the stage near him in his car. But the car broke down 10 kilometers from the finish, so, having recovered from his physical problems, decided to end the test run and pretend it was the champion. Was disqualified for life, but later forgave him and won the Boston Marathon the following year. That race turned out to be one of the craziest in the history of athletics, with high temperatures and a single point of provisioning of water, a participant (the Cuban Felix Carvajal) that was submitted to the starting line with street shoes, long pants , long-sleeved shirt and beret, two Africans (the first athletes of color to participate in the Games) chased by rabid dogs, and a winner (the American Thomas Hicks) whose victory almost cost him his life. A Hicks-clown by profession, he accompanied several friends on board a car, and when they saw him falter gave strychnine sulfate tablets (a stimulant) and several egg whites. Then he gave more strychnine, brandy and "refreshed" with water from the radiator. Goal reached staggering and exceeded once he fell down on the edge of the coma. "It's difficult to win such a race to be U.S. president," he said after recovering.
3. Dora was named Hermann
In 1936 Dora Ratjen of Germany had the opportunity to participate in the high jump test female Olympic Games in Berlin thanks to the ban on regime Nazi his best jumper, of Jewish origin, Ratjen finished fourth. His undeniable masculine traits generated many controversies and protests from rivals, to which he answered that he had a kind of hermaphroditism. Two years later, he beat the world record high jump during the European Championships in Vienna. Finally, the mystery was revealed in the 50's when two fans discovered that wore a wig in a train station in Germany. He underwent a medical examination which confirmed that he had male genitalia. Then confirmed the hoax: the good of Dora was really a man named Hermann Ratjen, so he was removed their titles and brands. In 1957, he ended up admitting he was a man, claiming he was forced to resort to this deception: "I've always been a man, but the Nazi regime, obsessed with winning a medal, I was forced to compete as a woman," he said then.
4. A professional cheater Rosie Ruiz
, Cuban American, won the Boston Marathon in 1980. Received the laurels and the medal, took the photos with the male winner, the legendary Bill Rodgers, and responded to interviews ... but something did not fit. If striking was his success (he was a stranger in athletics), it was even more extraordinary Time: 2 hours 31 minutes and 56 seconds, third world best of all time and 25 minutes less than it had taken the previous year to complete the marathon in New York! Furthermore, the other athletes did not recall having run with it and did not appear in the photos and videos taken during the test. Was disqualified when found the trap had not taken out along with the other runners, leaving the public in mid-race to complete only the final part. Shortly thereafter, the director of the New York marathon expressed his firm belief that Ruiz had not completed the full marathon course in the Big Apple in 1979. But his "history" as cheating does not stop there, reaching criminal dyes: a few years later was arrested in New York accused of forgery and theft, and spent a week in jail. A year later, he was jailed again in Miami for selling cocaine to undercover agents.
5. The (false) fastest race in history
In 1987 Ben Johnson broke the world record of 100 meters at the World Championships in Rome. A year later, his duel with Carl Lewis in the 100 meters in the 1988 Seoul Olympics focused attention around the world. The final exceeded all expectations and, in a spectacular race -Then called the "Great Race" - Big Ben forcefully imposed setting a new world record (9.79). But three days after Johnson was stripped of the gold medal and record after testing positive in doping test for the steroid Stanozolol. Subsequently, the Canadian admitted to doping since 1981, the IAAF stripped of all medals and records made since 1984. "I took pills of all colors," he admitted before the judge. In 1993 he tested positive again in a race in Montreal, and was banned for life.
6. How mustache or no mustache?
Tehami The Abbes Algeria, former 1,500-meter champion in his country, won the Brussels Marathon 1991. But further analysis of the photos revealed something strange: Tehami had a mustache at the start and reached the goal without it ... how was that possible? It was later learned the truth: he had taken out with his number was not him, but his coach, Bensalem Hamiani, who would have run about seven miles before passing the cord. Despite some similarities between both the deception came to light by the mustache he wore Hamiani and lacked the tricky winner.
7. The change had failed Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe
became early 90 in the European queen of speed. World champion at 100 and 200 meters in 1991, soon established himself as the athletic symbol of the unified Germany, something that also helped her beauty and charm. However, it soon fell into disgrace after testing positive for clenbuterol (a substance that increases muscle volume) in a urine test conducted in 1992 in South Africa. Next to her were "hunted" as other Germanic athletes Grit Breuer and Silke Moller. Krabbe later emerged that attempted to change his urine sample to one that had hidden in the vagina, into a small reservoir size and shape of a buffer, in a deception that most likely not was the first resort. But to be very guarded during the control (and suspicious of her), could not give the "change had.
8. A marathon route University
But no cases of massive fraud in fun runs as happened last January 2, 2010 in Xiamen Marathon (China). Hours after completing the test, 30 of the first 100 entrants were disqualified alleged to have resorted to various ruses illegal: many of them used a car or bike to complete part of their journey, others used "shortcuts" to travel a shorter distance to that prescribed, and other paid much higher level athletes so that, carrying his chip, established by them such good results. The sports authorities of Fujian Province found these tricks after reviewing various footage of the race. As reported, the average time they used the 30 athletes disqualified was 2 hours and 34 minutes, a really good lap for a popular athlete. The "cheaters" were not even regular athletes, but students who were playing with their place in the marathon extra points for the entrance examination to college or to get college scholarships.
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