10 Times Sports Cheating DESTROYED Lives
Lance Armstrong - Once hailed as a cycling legend with seven Tour de France titles, Armstrong was stripped of all his titles after it was revealed he had used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. His elaborate doping scheme and subsequent downfall shocked the sports world.
Marion Jones - An Olympic track and field star, Jones won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She later admitted to using steroids and was stripped of her medals. Her involvement in the BALCO scandal tarnished her legacy and led to a six-month prison sentence for perjury.
Tim Donaghy - An NBA referee, Donaghy was found guilty of betting on games he officiated and manipulating their outcomes. His actions led to a significant scandal in the NBA, undermining the integrity of the league.
Ben Johnson - The Canadian sprinter famously won the 100 meters at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in record time, only to be stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for steroids. His case was one of the earliest and most high-profile doping scandals in sports.
Rosie Ruiz - In 1980, Ruiz was initially declared the winner of the Boston Marathon but was later disqualified when it was discovered she had cheated by riding the subway for part of the race. Her fraudulence shocked the marathon community.
Tonya Harding - The figure skater was implicated in an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics. Although Harding maintained she had no prior knowledge of the attack, the scandal rocked the figure skating world.
Diego Maradona - The legendary footballer is remembered for his "Hand of God" goal during the 1986 World Cup, where he used his hand to score. While not the same as doping, it was a notorious example of cheating on the field.
Lance Armstrong - Once a symbol of perseverance and cancer survival, Armstrong's elaborate doping scheme and eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career led to him being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and a lifetime ban from cycling.
Barry Bonds - Widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Bonds' career was marred by allegations of steroid use. Despite breaking numerous records, his involvement in the BALCO scandal tainted his legacy.
These individuals not only damaged their reputations but also brought significant harm to their sports. Their stories serve as cautionary tales about the consequences of cheating.
Which sportsperson shocked you the most when it came out they were cheating? Feel free to share your thoughts below.
Marion Jones - An Olympic track and field star, Jones won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She later admitted to using steroids and was stripped of her medals. Her involvement in the BALCO scandal tarnished her legacy and led to a six-month prison sentence for perjury.
Tim Donaghy - An NBA referee, Donaghy was found guilty of betting on games he officiated and manipulating their outcomes. His actions led to a significant scandal in the NBA, undermining the integrity of the league.
Ben Johnson - The Canadian sprinter famously won the 100 meters at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in record time, only to be stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for steroids. His case was one of the earliest and most high-profile doping scandals in sports.
Rosie Ruiz - In 1980, Ruiz was initially declared the winner of the Boston Marathon but was later disqualified when it was discovered she had cheated by riding the subway for part of the race. Her fraudulence shocked the marathon community.
Tonya Harding - The figure skater was implicated in an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics. Although Harding maintained she had no prior knowledge of the attack, the scandal rocked the figure skating world.
Diego Maradona - The legendary footballer is remembered for his "Hand of God" goal during the 1986 World Cup, where he used his hand to score. While not the same as doping, it was a notorious example of cheating on the field.
Lance Armstrong - Once a symbol of perseverance and cancer survival, Armstrong's elaborate doping scheme and eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career led to him being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and a lifetime ban from cycling.
Barry Bonds - Widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Bonds' career was marred by allegations of steroid use. Despite breaking numerous records, his involvement in the BALCO scandal tainted his legacy.
These individuals not only damaged their reputations but also brought significant harm to their sports. Their stories serve as cautionary tales about the consequences of cheating.
Which sportsperson shocked you the most when it came out they were cheating? Feel free to share your thoughts below.
Transcript
00:00Williams seems to exhort the team to deliberately injure 49ers players.
00:04Welcome to Watch Mojo.
00:06And today we're examining our picks for the 10 times sports cheating destroyed
00:09people's lives. I feel like somebody who's been given
00:14tremendous opportunity to impart a message,
00:18some profound observation that will save the world.
00:22For this list, we'll be looking at iconic
00:23athletes and officials who lied and manipulated their sports to gain an unfair
00:27advantage, causing massive damage in their and others' lives.
00:31Which sports person shocked you the most when it came out they were cheating?
00:34Let us know below.
00:36Tom Simpson, 1967.
00:39He didn't want to like to think that someone had taken a mate away
00:43and something like the Tour de France, in all its innocence,
00:47could take the life of a person away.
00:49The Tour de France is one of the biggest competitions around for cyclists.
00:53Each competitor wants to do their best and go to extremes.
00:56In 1967, suffering from illness,
00:58British biker Tom Simpson was behind in the race.
01:01With the hot temperature of 54 degrees
01:03Celsius, Simpson was climbing the grueling Mont Ventoux.
01:06Having fallen off his bike,
01:07Simpson ignored the advice from his team and continued to cycle.
01:10Shortly after, he passed out, requiring CPR.
01:13After getting airlifted to a hospital,
01:15the 29-year-old Simpson was declared deceased.
01:17Simpson collapsed for the first time just short of the summit.
01:22Officially, the cause was attributed to heart failure from exhaustion.
01:25However, after discovering amphetamines in Simpson's possessions,
01:29further tests found the substance and alcohol within his system.
01:32He pushed his physical boundaries by doping.
01:35His death ushered in a change in the attitude towards doping at the time
01:39and indeed in the fight to ban it.
01:41Marion Jones, 2007.
01:43After the 2000 Summer Olympics,
01:45American track and field athlete Marion Jones was one of the best
01:48in the world after picking up three gold and two bronze medals.
01:52But once the Balco scandal broke,
01:54Jones was linked to using banned substances
01:56as her former partners were found to have been using.
02:00I have never, ever failed a drug test.
02:04After years of denying it, in 2007,
02:06she admitted she used steroids to win her medal collection in 2000.
02:09I have let my country down and I have let myself down.
02:13Facing a court case for making false
02:14statements to federal agents during the investigation, Jones pled guilty.
02:18She was sentenced to six months in prison in 2008.
02:21You've gone from $80,000 a race.
02:23Yeah, I don't know what that is per inch, but it's a lot.
02:26Right. And then suddenly you're in this tiny cell.
02:31You're a felon. On top of this,
02:32the legal issues had left Jones broke, requiring her to sell numerous properties.
02:37She also handed back her five Olympic medals.
02:40Pakistan cricket spot fixing scandal, 2010.
02:43After rumors of corruption within the Pakistan cricket team began to come out,
02:47the now defunct newspaper The News of the World went undercover to meet
02:51with sports agent Muzir Majeed in exchange for 150,000 pounds.
02:55Majeed would arrange for specific spots
02:58to happen during the fourth test between England and Pakistan.
03:01The first board on the side right now.
03:07The English.
03:09Three Pakistani players, Salman Butt,
03:11Mohamed Asif and Mohamed Amir, were mentioned in the report after
03:14an investigation by the International Cricket Council.
03:17Each was banned from playing professionally for years.
03:20Then a criminal investigation happened for defrauding bookmakers.
03:23In 2011, Majeed received a sentence of two years and eight months,
03:27but got two years and six months.
03:29Asif got one year and Amir got six months.
03:32Donald Crowhurst, 1969.
03:34In 1968, the Sunday Times Golden Globe race was set to begin.
03:38This event was a nonstop sailing competition around the world with several
03:42prizes, including 5000 pounds for the fastest time.
03:46Donald Crowhurst, whose business was struggling,
03:48saw this as an opportunity to turn things around.
03:51He remortgaged his house to pay for a new boat, but it still wasn't enough.
03:56So he managed to persuade Stanley Best,
03:59a wealthy caravan dealer, to be a sponsor as he entered the race.
04:02It seemed like Crowhurst was somehow going toe to toe with the professionals.
04:05In reality, he was lying about his location
04:07and even broke the rules to fix his boat on land.
04:10Crowhurst was now heading into that ocean
04:12in a leaking boat he had to bail by hand
04:16and confirmation of just how dangerous
04:18those seas could be came later that November.
04:22As competitors dropped out,
04:23Crowhurst was set to take second place and perhaps the money.
04:26But with the pressure of his deception
04:27likely to be exposed, his mental health deteriorated.
04:30He did give this warning that he thought he might have to go into radio silence.
04:34But the psychological isolation was that much more complete.
04:40He could hear messages coming in,
04:42and yet he had imposed the situation upon himself of non-communication,
04:48of being, as it were, speechless.
04:52In July 1969, his boat was found with no sign of Crowhurst.
04:56Bounty Gate, 2012.
04:58We hit the f***ing Smith right there.
05:00Remember me.
05:02I got the first one.
05:04I got the first one.
05:05It's normal for teams to offer financial bonuses for players' performances as
05:09an incentive, but issuing bounties to purposely injure opposition players isn't.
05:13In 2012, this was the case for the NFL's New Orleans Saints.
05:16From 2009 to 2011, up to 27 players were
05:20encouraged to deliberately hurt key opponents in exchange for some cash.
05:23This malicious scheme involved numerous parties, including teams then defensive
05:28coordinator Greg Williams and former head coach Sean Payton.
05:31In response, the NFL came down hard on the Saints.
05:34Not only were they fined $500,000,
05:36but Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 season and others were also handed bans.
05:41You can't talk to anybody in the league.
05:43You can't talk to any coach.
05:44Can't talk to any player.
05:46It was unprecedented.
05:47Baylor University basketball scandal, 2003.
05:50In 2003, Baylor University was rocked when
05:53basketball player Patrick Dennehy was killed by his teammate Carlton Dotson.
05:57This event sparked the National Collegiate
05:59Athletic Association to investigate the university.
06:02They found that Baylor had reached the limit of scholarships.
06:04So head coach Dave Bliss had been paying the tuition for Dennehy and Corey Herring.
06:08To start with, Bliss told the NCAA that
06:11Dennehy was paying his tuition by being a dealer.
06:14The group then found that Bliss disobeyed
06:16several NCAA regulations and even allowed his players to engage in substance abuse.
06:21With Baylor's basketball program and tatters, Bliss resigned and received a 10
06:25year show cause penalty, which essentially meant the NCAA would
06:28monitor him should another affiliate school hire him.
06:31Lance Armstrong, 2012.
06:33From inspiring many to take up cycling to creating a successful nonprofit in what's
06:38now known as the Livestrong Foundation, everything seemed great for Lance
06:41Armstrong, but then allegations about his cheating began to trickle out.
06:45In 2012, the United States Anti-Doping
06:47Agency charged Armstrong with doping and trafficking substances.
06:50Along with his achievements being taken away since 1998 and getting a lifetime
06:55ban from cycling, Armstrong's name was mud in sport.
06:58UCI will ban Lance Armstrong from cycling
07:01and UCI will strip him of his seven Tour de France titles.
07:06Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling.
07:09In 2013, he admitted to the doping accusations.
07:12Yes or no. Did you ever take banned
07:14substances to enhance your cycling performance?
07:17Yes. Since then, Armstrong has had to pay
07:19numerous court settlements for his deception, costing him millions of dollars.
07:23In interviews, he admitted that if he
07:25hadn't invested in Uber in 2009, his family would have been financially ruined.
07:29Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars.
07:32It's one of those.
07:33It's a lot. It's a lot.
07:35It's saved our family.
07:37Tim Donaghy, 2007.
07:39Obviously, there's always going to be
07:40disagreement with cause, but the integrity of the game can come back.
07:44For 13 years, Tim Donaghy was one of the biggest NBA referees in the game.
07:48But that all fell apart in 2007 when the FBI began investigating him.
07:52Donaghy was accused of manipulating the
07:54point spreading games he officiated as he or his two associates from high school
07:58placed large bets on the outcome.
08:00If he was throwing the games and it was blatant, the commissioner would have known.
08:04His co-workers would have known.
08:05The owners would have known.
08:06The players would have known.
08:08They would have called attention to it then,
08:10which was the reason why Tim was saying, well, there were other people involved
08:16and he believes that it went all the way up the chain.
08:18At the same time, as the news of the scandal came out, Donaghy's wife filed
08:22for divorce. He was also initially fined a total of five hundred thirty thousand
08:26dollars for his match fixing. In 2008, Donaghy was sentenced to 15 months
08:30in prison, while his associates, James Batista, also got 15 months.
08:34And Thomas Martino got one year and a day.
08:37The Calciopoli, 2006.
08:39In 2006, football's reputation took a massive hit when the Calciopoli scandal
08:44erupted in Italy. Club administrators and referee groups had been influencing which
08:48officials would be selected in certain Serie A and Serie B games,
08:52making the results favorable for them.
08:54Juventus were stripped of their last two
08:56titles and relegated, while AC Milan, Lazio, Regina and Fiorentina faced various
09:01sanctions. Numerous officials and administrators involved received long term
09:05bans from the sport and were sentenced to prison.
09:07However, most of the sentences handed out
09:09were acquitted or overturned by 2015. Yet even so, many had their standing
09:13in the footballing world tarnished forever.
09:15One who wasn't acquitted was ref Massimo De Santis.
09:18His one year suspended sentence remained in place.
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09:38Luis Resto, 1983.
09:40In 1983, the undefeated 21 year old Billy Collins Jr.
09:44took on Luis Resto. After 10 rounds, the judges unanimously gave the match to Resto.
09:48Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by unanimous decision, Luis Gabo Resto.
09:57But what was shocking was the damage to Collins' face.
09:59When Collins' father and trainer shook
10:01Resto's hand, he noticed his glove was thin.
10:09It turned out an ounce of padding had been removed by Resto's trainer and the
10:13boxer's wraps were essentially turned into plaster casts.
10:16The reason was down to large bets on the bout's outcome.
10:19Eighteen days after what had briefly appeared to be his greatest victory,
10:23Luis Resto's boxing career was over.
10:27But the consequences of that night in the ring for Luis and so many others
10:33were just beginning.
10:34The savage injuries sustained by Collins forced him to quit the profession.
10:38Less than a year later, he passed away from a car crash.
10:41Resto was banned from boxing and later
10:43sentenced to prison for two and a half years.
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