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The Giant Sports Scandals Picture Quiz

The highly controversial Fifa World Cup in Qatar takes place in November and December 2022. Top level sport has often been entertaining and scandalous at the same time. Can you answer these questions about sports scandals?
Crimes committed or scandals caused by athletes outside of sports are excluded from this quiz (e.g. O.J. Simpson or Oscar Pistorius).
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Last updated: November 15, 2022
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Bit off part of his opponent's ear.
Former German World Cup winner and FIFA executive committee member who has “never seen a single slave” in Qatar.
Super Bowl record winner involved in the deflategate affair.
Late Argentinian soccer great who scored a goal with his hand in the World Cup quarterfinal vs. England in 1986, later describing it as "the hand of God".
And in the 1990s he is banned for doping with this drug.
American cyclist stripped off his 7 Tour de France wins because of doping.
French soccer great headbutting an opponent in the World Cup Final 2006.
Canadian sprinter found guilty of doping after his 1988 Olympic win in the 100 m race.
What is Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suarez infamous for?
American ice skater involved in an assault on her rival Nancy Kerrigan (first name, like in a 2017 biopic).
Former Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko has been identified by the World Anti Doping Agency as a key person in a wide-ranging doping scheme in this country.
What is the fixing of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix by formula 1 manager Flavio Briatore often called?
French soccer player (then a striker for Manchester United, now actor), banned for 8 months and condemned to community service after a kung-fu style attack on a fan in 1995.
This Swiss FIFA president is banned from soccer for 12 years for dubious payments within a widespread corruption system ...
... alongside with this French soccer great and Uefa president.
This American cyclist "wins" the Tour de France 2006 thanks to an incredible solo but is convicted of doping shortly after.
The Summer Olympics 2004 in this city are overshadowed by a doping affair involving sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou.
39 people die in 1985 when Liverpool soccer fans are causing a stampede by charging Juventus fans at Heysel stadium in this city.
Successful sports nation from the 1960s throught the 1980s thanks to a huge state funded doping system.
Where did the US formula 1 Grand Prix of 2005 take place, with only 6 drivers competing due to a tyre scandal?
Russian tennis player banned for meldonium doping.
He hits a home run record but he most probably is a doper.
Ten IOC members are suspended for accepting bribes in the 2002 Winter Olympics bid by this American city.
One of the first known doping fatalities, this British cyclist dies in 1967 in the Tour de France.
This American sprinter admits doping and is stripped off her 5 medals won at the 2000 Olympics.
Police and the yellow press blame the death of 96 Liverpool fans in a stampede in this Sheffield stadium on unappopriate fan behaviour when it was in reality caused by errors of organizers and security forces.
New England Patriots head coach fined for spying on the New York Jets in 2007.
Seven time formula 1 World Champion deliberately crashing into his rival Jacques Villeneuve in 1997 (but losing the title anyway).
Sponsor of a cycling team in the center of a huge doping scandal in 1998
Nationality of Alex Zülle, one of the involved cyclists
Which country is “too small to make good doping”, according to its Ski federation president Schröcksnadel in the course of the 2006 Winter Olympics doping scandal?
Italian soccer club relegated for match-fixing
Phrase coined by late IOC president Brundage after the deadly Munich attacks on Israeli athletes: “The games … “
Norwegian cross country skier banned for doping with anabol-androgenic steroid Clostebol.
The doping drug nandrolone is found in this hygiene product of German athlete Dieter Baumann.
Corruption spreads within the IOC during the 21-year reign of president Juan Antonio Samaranch, citizen of this country.
Infamous bench-clearing brawl between the national under-20 teams of Canada and this former country in the WC 1987 final. Officials tried in vain to stop it by turning off the lights.
74 people die 2012 in massive fighting between fans of al-Masry and al-Ahly in this Egyptian city.
Spanish former cyclist involved in the “Fuentes” doping affair. A drug bag found at a razzia is labelled “Valv.Piti”, Piti being the name of his dog.
English translation of “Operation Aderlass”, a giant German-Austrian anti-doping investigation.
Formula 1 team McLaren is stripped off all its points in the 2007 world championship and fined 100 million $ for spying on this rival.
Late Bernard Tapie, controversial president of this soccer club in Southern France, is convicted for match-fixing in 1995. The club is relegated.
South African athlete banned from competing because the World Federation thinks her natural testosterone level does not make her a real woman.
What political system is best for big sports events because organizers don’t face protests by environmentalist, according to late Ski Federation President Gian Franco Kasper?
In what sport did Wang Xiaoli and seven other players deliberately lose games at the 2012 Olympics in order to get a more favorable placement in the next round?
Swiss five-time grand slam winner banned for cocaine doping
New York Yankees star suspended for 211 games (later reduced to 162 games) for doping.
Nickname of late Italian Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, disqualified at the Giro d’Italia in 1999 for alleged doping and dying in 2004 from a cocaine overdose.
Sport of Alexandr Zubkov, who “won” the two-man and four-man race at the 2014 Olympics, but was later stripped off his two gold medals.
Later to become a boxing legend and biting victim, this American is robbed of a probable gold medal at the 1984 Olympics by a highly controversial disqualification.
dakoopst
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Level 67
Nov 15, 2022
Love this quiz! Would you accept "bobsled" as well as "bobsleigh" for the Zubkov question?
nromero02
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Level 67
Nov 15, 2022
I agree
boepnx77
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Level 78
Nov 15, 2022
thank you. bobsled will work now.
WWEFan619
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Level 60
Apr 18, 2023
I appreciate all the Formula 1 scandals being on here
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