The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) constitute a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. It is held at a gap of every four years in the year before the summer Olympic Games. There …
Fred Perry won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon in 1936, exactly 77 years before Andy Murray became the champion in 2013. He was being projected as the last Briton to win a singles title at Wimbledon before Andy Murray. But the person to get the credit is Virginia Wade, who won the women’s singles …
Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of the 100 m gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for banned steroids. Just after Johnson winning the race, the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission informed the Canadian officials that Johnson’s urine samples contained stanozolol, a banned anabolic steroid. Carl Lewis, who originally won the …
Marion Jones was the first woman to win five track and field medals at a single Olympic Games in Sydney (2000). After years of denial, she was compelled to confess of being a drug cheat and was jailed for lying to the investigators.
The best timings for 100 m of Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are respectively 9.27s and 10.82s. But they were convicted for taking the banned drug Oxilofrine, which is a stimulant used to boost the body’s ability to burn fat. It helps the athletes boost their power-to-weight ratio with more lean muscle and less fat, …
Ivan Lendl had held the rank of world’s no. 1 in men’s tennis for long but could never win at Wimbledon. He lost in finals (1986 to Boris Becker, 1987 to Pat Cash). Referring to Wimbledon’s Grass Court, he said out of frustration ‘Grass is only meant for cows.’ After Andy Murray (whom he coached) …
