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*[[Sonny Bill Williams]] (2008) - Two days before a Bulldogs match against the Dragons, Williams broke his five-year contract (he was in the first year of that contract) and fled Australia to play rugby union in France without notifying the club or the NRL in advance. He was later suspended by the NRL for five years. |
*[[Sonny Bill Williams]] (2008) - Two days before a Bulldogs match against the Dragons, Williams broke his five-year contract (he was in the first year of that contract) and fled Australia to play rugby union in France without notifying the club or the NRL in advance. He was later suspended by the NRL for five years. |
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*[[Brisbane Broncos]] (2008) - players [[Karmichael Hunt]], [[Darius Boyd]] and [[Sam Thaiday]] are engulfed in allegations of sexual abuse against a woman in a cubicle of a Brisbane nightclub in September 2008. All three however were exonerated in November that year due to lack of evidence. |
*[[Brisbane Broncos]] (2008) - players [[Karmichael Hunt]], [[Darius Boyd]] and [[Sam Thaiday]] are engulfed in allegations of sexual abuse against a woman in a cubicle of a Brisbane nightclub in September 2008. All three however were exonerated in November that year due to lack of evidence. |
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*During a match against the [[Penrith Panthers]] early in the 2009 season, the Bulldogs achieved a 28-26 win after it was revealed there were 14 men on the field when the match winning try was scored. As a result, the Bulldogs were deducted two competition points, thus costing them that year's minor premiership. |
*During a match against the [[Penrith Panthers]] early in the 2009 season, the Bulldogs achieved a 28-26 win after which it was revealed there were 14 men on the field when the match winning try was scored. As a result, the Bulldogs were deducted two competition points, thus costing them that year's minor premiership. Later on in the season, the Bulldogs were denied another victory (in round 10 against the [[St. George Illawarra Dragons]]) after what seemed to be the match-winning try was disallowed by video referee Steve Clark. For his part, Clark was sacked for one week for the blunder. |
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*It is alleged that the [[Sydney Roosters]] [[match fixing|threw the final match]] of their [[2009 Sydney Roosters season|2009 season]] against the [[North Queensland Cowboys]] in September 2009. The Roosters had led 16-0 before halftime, only to lose the match 32-16. Roosters players were later exonerated due to lack of evidence. |
*It is alleged that the [[Sydney Roosters]] [[match fixing|threw the final match]] of their [[2009 Sydney Roosters season|2009 season]] against the [[North Queensland Cowboys]] in September 2009. The Roosters had led 16-0 before halftime, only to lose the match 32-16. Roosters players were later exonerated due to lack of evidence. |
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*[[Melbourne Storm salary cap breach]] (2010) - the Melbourne Storm were stripped of the 2007 and 2009 premierships and 2006-2008 minor premierships, fined an Australian sporting record $1.689 million, ordered to cut $1.0125 million from their payroll, deducted all eight premiership points received during the season and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the [[2010 NRL season|season]] after Storm officials confessed to a running a well-organized dual contract and bookkeeping system that concealed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap totaling $3.17 million over five years from NRL officials. The matter has been referred to ASIC, the Australian Tax Office, the Victorian State Revenue Office, and the Victoria Police. |
*[[Melbourne Storm salary cap breach]] (2010) - the Melbourne Storm were stripped of the 2007 and 2009 premierships and 2006-2008 minor premierships, fined an Australian sporting record $1.689 million, ordered to cut $1.0125 million from their payroll, deducted all eight premiership points received during the season and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the [[2010 NRL season|season]] after Storm officials confessed to a running a well-organized dual contract and bookkeeping system that concealed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap totaling $3.17 million over five years from NRL officials. The matter has been referred to ASIC, the Australian Tax Office, the Victorian State Revenue Office, and the Victoria Police. |
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This is a list of major sports scandals:
Scandals in baseball
- Black Sox Scandal (1919)
- Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker's game fixing (1926)
- Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays banned from baseball for being doormen in an Atlantic City Casino (1970s)
- Pete Rose gambling on baseball - Dowd Report (1989)
Scandals in college sports
- College basketball point shaving scandals (many times, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, with more recent scandals in 1978-79, 1984, and 1994)
- Southern Methodist University football scandal: In 1986, it was revealed that Southern Methodist University boosters gave football players thousands of dollars from a "slush fund" with the knowledge of university administrators. Along with a string of prior NCAA violations, this led the NCAA to level the "death penalty" on the school's football team.
- George O'Leary resume fabrication (2001), which forced him to resign as head football coach at Notre Dame.
- University of Michigan basketball scandal: Four players, most notably Chris Webber, were paid by a booster to launder money from his gambling operations. In some cases, the payments extended to their high school days.
- Jim Harrick resigned as head basketball coach at the University of Georgia in 2002 after his son, Jim Harrick Jr., provided an easy exam to Georgia basketball players and other students in a basketball coaching class that he taught and paid a $300 phone bill for a player (Tony Cole).
- Baylor University basketball scandal (2003) - player Patrick Dennehy was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson. Later, coach Dave Bliss instructed his players to lie to NCAA investigators that Dennehy dealt drugs. In the wake of these events, numerous violations of NCAA rules were discovered.
- Duke lacrosse case - a stripper hired by members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team for an informal team party in 2006 falsely accused three players of rape.
- Murder of Yeardley Love – University of Virginia women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love was murdered in May 2010, with former romantic partner and UVa men's lacrosse player George Huguely charged with her killing.
American football scandals
- Minnesota Vikings boat party scandal (2005) - a pleasure cruise that reportedly featured sexual shenanigans by several members of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL
- National Football League player conduct controversy (2007—present) - Various incidents involving American football athletes from the National Football League and their conduct off the field and involvement with law enforcement. Notably, actions of Adam "Pacman" Jones, Terry "Tank" Johnson, Chris Henry, and Ben Roethlisberger that subsequently got them suspended.
Match-fixing scandals
- Ten of the twelve members of the gold medal-winning Spanish basketball team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics were revealed to have no disability.
- Fresno Case scandal (2004) - an attempt to rig a vote to prevent the Catalan rink hockey team from being accepted into international competition.
- Tim Donaghy – NBA referee under investigation in 2007 for betting on league games, including some in which he worked.
Ice hockey scandals
- Operation Slapshot (2006) - investigation into a gambling ring allegedly operated by National Hockey League assistant coach Rick Tocchet.
Soccer scandals
- 1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, AC Milan versus Leeds United - Referee Christos Michas was investigated by the Greece Football Association amid allegations that he had accepted a bribe from the Italian club. He was subsequently banned by UEFA from officiating a European game again.
- Bundesliga scandal (2005) - a match fixing scandal in German football centering on disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer.
- Brazilian football match-fixing scandal (2005) - another match fixing scandal involving referees, this time in Brazil.
- 2006 Italian football scandal – a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving several major teams, including three of the country's four qualifiers to the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League.
- In the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2006 the Armenian champion FC Pyunik refused to play with an Azerbaijani team, PFC Neftchi. The team FC Pyunik defeated the Ukrainian team FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 in the quarter-final, when it already knew that in case of victory they will have to play against PFC Neftchi. After the match, they told the referee they wouldn't play against an Azerbaijani team, and later that evening left Moscow on an airplane. The Russian Football Union gave FC Shakhtar Donetsk a technical victory 3-0 so they could play in the half-final instead of FC Pyunik, but FC Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "...we would really want to play in the half-final, but we don't want to get there by any other way then sport". Eventually, because no one could play against PFC Neftchi in the half-final, Neftchi were right away promoted to the final, where they defeated the Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas 4-2.[1]
Rugby union scandals
- Grannygate - scandal in March 2000 over the eligibility of Shane Howarth and Brett Sinkinson representing the Wales national team
- Kamp Staaldraad - controversial training camp for the Springboks (South Africa's national rugby union team) before the 2003 Rugby World Cup
- 2006 rugby union handbag controversy - initially an incident in which one New Zealand rugby player allegedly struck a fellow player with a woman's handbag; became more controversial when Australia's Seven Network aired a commercial parodying the incident, in which images of the All Blacks performing their pre-match haka were digitally altered to show the players carrying handbags.
- 2006 Kapa O Pango controversy - Australian coach John Connolly suggests that the All Blacks' Kapo o Pango haka should be banned, stating that the throat slitting gesture at the end is a bad example to young kids. The haka was also reviewed earlier in the year, creating more controversy.
- "Bloodgate" – A scheme by the English rugby union club Harlequins to fake an injury to Template:Wing Tom Williams to allow a blood replacement to be brought on at a critical moment in their 2009 Heineken Cup quarterfinal against Leinster. The scheme, which included deliberately cutting Williams' mouth open after the match in order to cover up the fake injury, ultimately led to Quins head coach Dean Richards being banned from the sport for three years.[2]
Olympic Games scandals
- The Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan incident (1994)
- Johann Mühlegg - Salt Lake City scandal - finished first in the 50 km classical race in Cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympic Games on February 23, 2002, but was disqualified from that race and was expelled from the Games the next day after testing positive for darbepoetin.
- 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
- IOC bribery - see 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal
Cricket scandals
- Hansiegate - scandal in 2000 involving former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje with three other teammates for involving in match fixing.
- John the bookmaker controversy – Another cricket scandal in which Australia's Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were paid in 1994–95 to provide information on pitch and weather conditions to an Indian bookmaker. The scandal came to light in 1998.
- 2010 Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy – Three Pakistan players were accused of involvement in a spot-fixing scheme in which they allegedly accepted large sums of money to influence specific events within a match, as opposed to an actual match result.
Australian Football League scandals
- Carlton Football Club salary cap scandal (2002) - in the same year as the NRL Bulldogs scandal, the Blues were fined a then-Australian sporting record $987,500, forfeited priority picks in the 2002 National Draft, forfeited first and second round picks in the National Draft for two years and were excluded from the 2003 pre-season draft as a result of serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap totalling $1.37 million between 1998 and 2001. Carlton struggled for the next seven years as a result of these penalties, finishing no higher than 11th in 2004 and winning the wooden spoon in 2002, 2005 and 2006.
- 2004 - St Kilda Football Club players Leigh Montagna and Stephen Milne were engulfed in allegations of rape, but both players were later cleared.
- Line in the Sand Match (2004) - an infamous match between rivals Hawthorn and Essendon became notorious for a five-minute bench-clearing brawl occurring shortly after halftime. Record tribunal penalties as well as fines were handed out to fifteen players.
- Whispers in the Sky (2005) - an umpire from a match between Fremantle and St Kilda was quoted as saying: "Now I know what it feels like to have a victory", in reference to a number of free kicks awarded to the home team, all in which resulted in goals, and all in which contributed to Fremantle's victory.
- Ben Cousins drug scandal (2006–present) - fired as West Coast Eagles captain in 2006 following an off-field incident; suspended indefinitely by his club in early 2007 before being de-listed and then de-registered for 12 months by the AFL later the same year. Several other off-field incidents have since followed.
- Sirengate (2006) - the final siren in an AFL match between St Kilda and Fremantle did not sound loud enough, allowing for the Saints to kick a match-tying behind which was later stripped by the AFL Commission, as well as the two competition points gained from the "draw". AFL Records were modified to record this as a "win" to Fremantle as AFL rules stated that the match should have been completed.
- Simon Black, Fraser Gehrig and Michael Voss were charged with assault after a brawl outside a nightclub on the eve of the 2006 AFL Grand Final.
- In the first Western Derby for season 2007, Fremantle's Des Headland gets involved in an on-field altercation with West Coast's Adam Selwood when it is alleged that Selwood said: "I f***ed her last night" in reference to Headland's daughter which was tattooed on his arm. Both players faced the AFL Tribunal the following week on charges of striking and wrestling (Headland) and using abusive language (Selwood). Both players were found guilty, but Headland wasn't suspended due to the nature of the incident.
- At the conclusion of the same match, Michael Braun, upon winning the Ross Glendinning Medal, said in front of a live television audience: "Let's have a f***ing good year!". Braun was fined $5,000 for the stunt.
- The final match of the 2007 AFL premiership season between Melbourne and Carlton was subject to allegations of "tanking", in that the loser of that match would receive a priority pick in that year's AFL Draft. Carlton lost the match, their 11th in succession, and therefore received the priority pick as a result of winning only four matches that year (only Richmond had finished lower). This allowed them to secure then-West Coast Eagles captain Chris Judd as well as the first priority pick in the draft, Matthew Kreuzer. This was seen as the beginning of the end of a very dark period for the Blues in the wake of the salary cap breaches that engulfed the club five years earlier.
- Former West Coast Eagles wingman Chris Mainwaring is found dead in his Cottesloe home on October 1, 2007, apparently due to a drug overdose. Ben Cousins is believed to have had a role in Mainwaring's final hours; he claimed to have given him fast food late on the night of September 30, 2007. In the same month, Cousins is sacked by the West Coast Eagles for repeated off-field offences.
- Sydney Swans (2008):
- Barry Hall king hit: During a match against the West Coast Eagles, Swans forward Barry Hall king hit West Coast defender Brent Staker behind play. Hall was subsequently suspended for seven matches. During the same match he suffered an arm injury.
- During a match against North Melbourne, the Swans scored a point to level the scores, but later it was revealed that the point was scored when the Swans had 19 men on the field. The result stood and the Swans were allowed to keep the two premiership points gained from the draw, but they were fined $55,000 and the AFL amended its interchange laws to prevent such incidents occurring again.
- Dean Solomon (2008): Solomon was suspended for eight weeks for elbowing Geelong's Cameron Ling in the face during a match.
- Brendan Fevola's drunken antics at the 2009 Brownlow Medal saw him fired from the Nine Network and fined $10,000 by the AFL. He was traded to the Brisbane Lions the following month.
- St Kilda Football Club (2010):
- Star recruit Andrew Lovett was de-listed by the club one day after being officially charged with rape.
- In March 2010, a 16-year-old schoolgirl fell pregnant after it was alleged that she had slept with two Saints players when the team was in Sydney playing a premiership match against the Sydney Swans.
- The Saints also became involved in the Melbourne Storm's salary cap scandal as Brian Waldron, Matt Hanson and Cameron Vale were the club's CEO, CFO and Financial Officer respectively prior to being at the Melbourne Storm. The Saints however were cleared of any wrongdoing, however in 2005 (the year all three left the club) the Saints were fined $40,000 over an infringement involving minor sponsor Xbox.
- In December 2010, three Saints players - Nick Riewoldt, Zac Dawson and Nick Dal Santo had nude photos of themselves in sexual situations published on Facebook by an anonymous 17-year-old girl who claimed it was revenge for poor treatment from the players after becoming pregnant to one of the many St Kilda players she had slept with. The players denied knowing the girl, claiming that the photos had been taken by teammates while on holiday in Miami.
National Rugby League scandals
- The South Sydney Rabbitohs were excluded from the NRL for two years for failing to meet the criteria bought forward by the NRL in its plans to change the direction of the game in 1999. They were readmitted in 2002, however limited success has followed since (they did however manage a finals appearance in 2007, their first for 18 years, but lost their only final).
- Then-Wests Tigers winger John Hopoate is sacked by the club after he was suspended by the NRL for 12 weeks following an incident in which he was alleged to have placed his finger into the anuses of three North Queensland Cowboys players during a match in March 2001. Hopoate claimed that he was trying to give the players a "wedgie" but all three disagreed with Hopoate's claims.
- The Canterbury Bulldogs were fined $500,000 and deducted 37 premiership points received during the season (the only points that remained at that point were four points attained from two byes during the season) for gross salary cap breaches totaling $2.13 million over three years, including $920,000 in 2002 alone; the points penalty meant that the club won the 2002 wooden spoon (Souths would have won the wooden spoon if not for the breaches). Two senior club officials were jailed for fraud as a result of the breaches.
- In the 2004 NRL pre-season, Bulldogs players were alleged to have been involved in a sex scandal during a pre-season trip to Coffs Harbour. Most of the players involved were later exonerated due to lack of evidence.
- Danny Williams was suspended for 18 matches for a king-hit on Wests Tigers star Mark O'Neill during an NRL match in 2004.
- Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles winger John Hopoate is sacked by the club and forced into retirement following a 17-match suspension received for striking Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks forward Keith Galloway in the 30th minute of a match in early 2005. This turned out to be Hopoate's final ever NRL game.
- Craig Gower was fired as Panthers captain after a string of alcohol-fuelled incidents at a charity golf event in December 2005. It was alleged that he argued with and verbally abused several guests, groped the teenage daughter of league legend Wayne Pearce, chased Pearce's son with a beer bottle before vomiting on him, streaked around the resort, totaled a golf cart, held a butter knife to the throat of a Sydney radio personality before throwing it at resort guests, and engaged in a brawl with resort security before being ejected from the official function and detained by police.[3][4] Gower was handed a "final warning" by the National Rugby League, suspended for four matches and fined $100,000, with $90,000 to be paid to an NRL program encouraging the responsible use of alcohol by league players, and $10,000 to be paid to the resort to replace the destroyed golf cart.[5]
- Grannygate (2006) - the New Zealand national rugby league team controversially chose former Queensland hooker Nathan Fien to play in the post-season Tri-Nations when Fien claimed to be eligible for selection through his great grandmother. As Fien was not deemed eligible yet, the two competition points New Zealand gained from beating England were deducted, however it didn't deter Fien from playing further Tests for New Zealand or the team making the final, which they lost in golden point.
- Sonny Bill Williams (2008) - Two days before a Bulldogs match against the Dragons, Williams broke his five-year contract (he was in the first year of that contract) and fled Australia to play rugby union in France without notifying the club or the NRL in advance. He was later suspended by the NRL for five years.
- Brisbane Broncos (2008) - players Karmichael Hunt, Darius Boyd and Sam Thaiday are engulfed in allegations of sexual abuse against a woman in a cubicle of a Brisbane nightclub in September 2008. All three however were exonerated in November that year due to lack of evidence.
- During a match against the Penrith Panthers early in the 2009 season, the Bulldogs achieved a 28-26 win after which it was revealed there were 14 men on the field when the match winning try was scored. As a result, the Bulldogs were deducted two competition points, thus costing them that year's minor premiership. Later on in the season, the Bulldogs were denied another victory (in round 10 against the St. George Illawarra Dragons) after what seemed to be the match-winning try was disallowed by video referee Steve Clark. For his part, Clark was sacked for one week for the blunder.
- It is alleged that the Sydney Roosters threw the final match of their 2009 season against the North Queensland Cowboys in September 2009. The Roosters had led 16-0 before halftime, only to lose the match 32-16. Roosters players were later exonerated due to lack of evidence.
- Melbourne Storm salary cap breach (2010) - the Melbourne Storm were stripped of the 2007 and 2009 premierships and 2006-2008 minor premierships, fined an Australian sporting record $1.689 million, ordered to cut $1.0125 million from their payroll, deducted all eight premiership points received during the season and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the season after Storm officials confessed to a running a well-organized dual contract and bookkeeping system that concealed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap totaling $3.17 million over five years from NRL officials. The matter has been referred to ASIC, the Australian Tax Office, the Victorian State Revenue Office, and the Victoria Police.
- Bulldogs player Ryan Tandy is engulfed in a betting scandal involving his team playing against the North Queensland Cowboys in a match in late 2010. Tandy had allegedly bet that the first scoring play would be a Cowboys penalty goal, which almost eventuated (Tandy dropped the ball from the kick-off, and later conceded a penalty in the Cowboys' half).
- In the 2010 post-season, a photograph circulated around social networking site Twitter depicting Canberra Raiders player Joel Monaghan in a compromising position with a dog. Monaghan quit the club on November 9 just as the club was about to sack him.
State of Origin scandals
- With six minutes to go in game one of the 2000 State of Origin series, Queensland captain Gorden Tallis was sent off for allegedly calling referee Bill Harrigan "a f***ing cheat" whilst arguing that one of New South Wales' tries had been scored illegally. Queensland went on to lose the match 20-16, and the series 3-0.
- Reports of a rift between then-NSW coach Phil Gould and captain Andrew Johns surfaced more than two weeks before the first game of the 2003 State of Origin series after it was revealed that Gould was disappointed in most of the players' performances in the preceding City vs. Country match, and in particular Johns. The rift was resolved prior to the first game and Johns eventually did play out the series.[6]
- Prior to the first game of the 2004 State of Origin series, NSW players Anthony Minichiello and Mark Gasnier were suspended following sexual abuse allegations, one of which involved Gasnier sending a text message to an unknown woman on Minichiello's phone.
- Prior to the third game of the 2009 State of Origin series it was revealed that numerous Queensland players had taken a cocktail of drugs and energy drinks in the lead up to the match, which they lost 28-16. The revelations were only made public after the match, and this was put down to their poor Game Three performance. In the same match, players from both Queensland and New South Wales teams engaged in a huge on-field brawl just two minutes from fulltime, when Queensland prop Steve Price was knocked out by a punch from New South Wales prop Brett White. This led to Blues forward Trent Waterhouse being sent off (the first NSW player to be sent off, and the first send-off in Origin since 2000) however he was exonerated because he had no major role in the brawl. A follow up brawl 30 seconds from full-time saw Ben Creagh and Sam Thaiday both sin-binned for fighting; leaving New South Wales and Queensland with just 11 and 12 men on the field respectively by the final siren.
- New South Wales State of Origin (2010) - assistant coach Andrew Johns is stood down following racist remarks which were reportedly aimed at Queensland centre Greg Inglis whilst Johns was addressing the NSW Origin squad. Johns had allegedly instructed NSW debutant Beau Scott to "shut that black c*** down" (this in reference to Inglis), triggering teammate Timana Tahu's exit from the camp. Inglis went on to have what many described as "the game of his life" by scoring the first try in Queensland's 34-6 demolition of New South Wales and subsequently wrap up Queensland's fifth-consecutive State of Origin series victory. Queensland later went on to win the series 3-0, the worst on-and-off field performance by any New South Wales Origin team since 1995. A full-scale investigation into the behaviour of the New South Wales team was conducted; which culminated in the sacking of coach Craig Bellamy after three unsuccessful State of Origin campaigns for the Blues, and the withdrawal of main sponsor Aussie Home Loans after just two seasons. Ricky Stuart was later named his successor.
Scandals in motorsport
- Incidents involving loose manhole covers:
- 1990 480km of Montreal
- 2004 DTM Shanghai
- 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Beijing, China
- The 1989 and 1990 Japanese Grand Prix (the former famous for controversial disqualification of Ayrton Senna)
- IMSA Camel GT drug smuggling scandal (1980s) - A group of drivers was arrested for drug smuggling to finance their racing activities: the Whittington brothers (Bill and Don), Randy Lanier and father and son, John Paul Sr. and Jr. would all by 1987 be imprisoned under various charges.
- Tyrrell Racing technical infringement scandal (1984) - The Tyrrell team were disqualified from the 1984 Formula One season after it were discovered that the team are using illegal fuel mixtures, as well as several other technical infringements.
- Darrell Alderman's drug possession scandal[7] (1991)
- 1994 Formula One cheating controversy - A number of allegations of cheating were thrown during the 1994 Formula One season, particularly to Benetton team.
- Toyota Team Europe turbocharger scandal (1995) - The Toyota factory backed WRC team was disqualified from the 1995 championship, fined, and banned for 12 months it was discovered that they had been competing with a tampered air restrictor, allowing for more power than the permitted amount.[8]
- Angela's Motorsports scandal (2003)
- 2005 United States Grand Prix - mass "walkout" controversy after seven teams using Michelin tyres boycotted at the start of the race due to concerns following two tyre-related accidents by Toyota's Ralf Schumacher and Ricardo Zonta during the Friday practice sessions.
- Christodoulou kart engine scandal (2005) - Adam Christodoulou and other drivers competed in kart races with illegally tampered engines built by Adam's father Peter, who was banned for 12 months and fined £30,000.
- June 19, 2006 - NASCAR team owner Gene Haas was arrested for personal and business tax evasion.
- Max Mosley's S&M dungeon allegation (2008) - later resulted in a successful lawsuit brought by the FIA president against the News of the World newspaper, who covered the scandal.
- 2007 NASCAR Gatorade Duel Scandal
- 2007 Formula One espionage controversy, commonly known as Stepneygate; an incident in which Scuderia Ferrari mechanic Nigel Stepney passed on secret document to Mike Coughlan of McLaren.
- 2008 race fixing controversy, surrounding allegations in Formula One that driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to help his Renault F1 teammate Fernando Alonso win
Scandals in horse racing
- Horse murders -- From 1975 - 1995 wealthy owners and trainers of show jumping horses conspire to electrocute and otherwise kill over-valued as well as under-performing animals in a 20-year-long scheme to defraud insurance companies; crimes also committed during this equestrian sports scandal include extortion, mail fraud, animal cruelty, and the murder of at least one human being.
- Fine Cotton/Bold Personality (1984) – A "ring-in" (substitution scam) in Australia involving several elite figures in the sport, in which the schemers attempted to pass off Bold Personality as the much less talented Fine Cotton in a low-level race.
- Shanghai Syndicate case (1986)
- Death of Alydar (1990) – The death of the star stallion was initially reported as an accident, but was later speculated to have been a murder motivated by an attempt of his financially troubled owner, Calumet Farm, to collect on a large insurance policy.
- 1993 Grand National fiasco
- Stanley Chin race fixing scandal (1996)
- Operation Green Grass (2002)
- Kieren Fallon race fixing scandal
- Operation Twin Towns (2006)
Scandals in boxing
- Jake LaMotta vs Billy Fox fight fixing scandal (1947)
- Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran's rematch's "No Mas" controversy and scandal (1980)
- Billy Collins V Luis Resto scandal
- Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield ear biting scandal (1997)
Scandals in sumo wrestling
- Tokitsukaze stable hazing scandal (2007)
- Rohō Yukio, his brother Hakurozan Yūta, Wakanohō Toshinori and two Russian sumo wrestlers banned for life one month after the other after being caught in possession of cannabis (2008)
Scandals in tennis
- Gussie Moran's revealing minidress (1949)
- Stabbing of Monica Seles during a rest break at Citizen Cup (1993)[9]
- Serena Williams' outburst at the 2009 U.S. Open
Doping scandals
- Drug abuse in sports
- Ben Johnson (1988)
- Festina affair, a major doping scandal at the 1998 Tour de France
- Juiced, a 2005 tell-all book by Jose Canseco in which he revealed the extent of doping in baseball
- BALCO (2004–05), which eventually led to:
- Game of Shadows, a 2006 book that alleges extensive use of performance-enhancing drugs by Barry Bonds
- Marion Jones, American athlete, admitting in 2007 that she had used a steroid popularly known as "the clear" prior to her winning five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- The Mitchell Report, in which 88 current and former Major League Baseball players were alleged to have used steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs
- Operación Puerto (2006) - a Spanish investigation into a doping scheme allegedly involving many top cyclists, including several potential contenders in the 2006 Tour de France
- Floyd Landis doping case (2006) – Floyd Landis, initially the winner of the 2006 Tour, tested positive for synthetic testosterone and was stripped of his title.
- Doping at the 2007 Tour de France – The 2007 Tour de France was rocked by a series of doping scandals. Two riders, including pre-race favorite Alexander Vinokourov, were disqualified for doping offenses. Both teams involved pulled out of the Tour. A third rider, who had abandoned the Tour after a crash, was revealed to have tested positive for testosterone before the Tour. The race leader, Michael Rasmussen, was removed from the Tour by his team with four stages left amid questions surrounding his possible involvement in doping.
- The banning of Belgian players for not providing whereabouts to the Flemish Tennis Federation (2009–2010).
References
- ^ Новости NEWSru.com :: Скандал на Кубке Содружества: чемпионы Армении отказались играть с азербайджанцами
- ^ Benammar, Emily (2009-08-18). "Dean Richards ban: how 'Bloodgate' saga unfolded". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
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- ^ Johns moved to ease perceived rift with Gould - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- ^ http://www.nhra.com/50th/news/headlines.html?year=1991
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