The 2010 decade has witnessed many scandalous sports scandals. Recently, Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper nominated the most negative events in world sports in the past 10 years.
Lance Armstrong, one of the most infamous figures in world sports over the past decade.
1. Lance Armstrong used doping
From 1999 to 2005, Lance Armstrong won consecutive championships at the Tour de France and Armstrong’s story is even more remarkable because Armstrong is a cancer patient who overcame adversity. It was not until 2013 that Armstrong first admitted to cheating. Armstrong’s seven Tour de France titles were stripped and the American cyclist was banned from cycling for the rest of his life and paid $7 million in compensation to the riders. damaged party.
2. Qatar is allowed to host the 2022 World Cup
Many controversies quickly broke out after Qatar was announced to have won the right to host the 2022 World Cup. During the first time the world cup came to the Arab world, there were a series of accusations accompanied by evidence showing that Qatar bribed FIFA members to buy votes. In addition, Qatar, with its unfavorable weather conditions, upset the international football schedule when it announced that it would host the World Cup in the winter.
3. Russian doping ring
After the 2014 Winter Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) began a large-scale investigation into a system that supported and covered up Russian athletes’ use of doping. A Russian official who defected in 2016 provided further evidence that such a system was sponsored by the Russian government.
Russian sports were punished because of the country’s government’s doping cover-up program.
In July 2016, WADA published a report on retesting doping samples from the 2012 Olympics and discovered that more than 1,000 Russian athletes were helped by the government to pass the tests. The Russian sports delegation was not banned from attending the 2016 Olympics but lost 111 athletes.
In September 2019, WADA discovered that the results of inspections of Russian facilities were sought to be disrupted by the country’s government. Russian sports are therefore indefinitely banned from international tournaments, including the 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup.
4. “Deflated balloon” scandal
In 2015, the New England Patriots football club defeated the Indianapolis Colts with a difference of 38 points in the regional final of American football (NFL). However, not long after, it was discovered that Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady used a deflated ball to play. The deflated ball made it easier for his teammates to pass the ball to catch the ball.
The scandal became even more controversial because the Patriots were fined very lightly. Brady was personally banned from playing for 4 matches but appealed and it took more than 500 days after the match for Brady to serve his sentence. The Patriots then went on to win two more NFL championships in the decade.
5. Serena Williams is “mad”
At the 2018 US Open, Serena Williams, in her match against Naomi Osaka in the women’s singles final, “went crazy” with referee Carlos Ramos after referee Ramos discovered that Serena’s coach had a “reminding” gesture in the stands and punished her. minus Serena’s points.
It is worth mentioning that Serena Williams’ coach admitted that he had reminded her in the stands. This is not the first time Serena has quarreled with referees on the court, it happened in the 2009 US Open semi-finals and the 2011 US Open final.
6. Maria Sharapova was banned from competing
In June 2016, Maria Sharapova was banned from tennis for 2 years after being found positive for Meldonium, a substance that was included in the banned list earlier that year. The case caused a stir because Sharapova believed that she had unintentionally broken the law, not intentionally. She had used this substance on the advice of her doctor for 10 years to prevent cardiovascular disease. Ultimately, Sharapova had her sentence reduced to 15 months and returned to competition in 2017.
Maria Sharapova.
7. Luis Suarez bites people
FIFA for the first time issued a very heavy penalty after Luis Suarez bit Giorgio Chiellini during the match between Uruguay and Italy in the 2014 World Cup. Suarez was banned from all football activities for 4 months, including entering a stadium. Playing and practicing on the training ground of the Uruguayan club or team, and must pay a fine of £66,000.
This is the biggest scandal for Suarez personally in his career after the racist incident with Patrice Evra and biting Branislav Ivanovic, causing Suarez to receive a record 48-match suspension before the decade is even half over. But after this event, Suarez was transferred to Barcelona and became a hero of the club, with the highlight being the treble of the 2014/15 season, exactly 1 year after the scandal.
