doping scandal
Performance-enhancing drug disgrace
A doping scandal is a public controversy over athletes using banned performance-enhancing drugs.
The term typically involves revelation, investigation, and consequences—stripped medals, suspensions, damaged reputations: The doping scandal rocked professional cycling.
Major doping scandals can taint entire sports or national programs.
- cheatingDeceptive rule-breaking
- steroidsPerformance-enhancing hormones
- athleteSports competitor
- bannedOfficially disallowed
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
lifetime ban · Olympics · cycling · Armstrong · testing · drug test · urine · blood · performance · enhancing · drugs · whistleblower · stripped · medal · disqualified · stripped of title · cover-up · WADA
- OlympicsOlympics, Olympic Games, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, Olympic medal
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- Cold War SportsMoscow Olympics, sports schools, Nadia Comaneci, Olympic medals
- Anti-DopingWADA, banned substances, drug testing, NADA, positive test
- DDR Sportssports academies, sports schools, political propaganda, Berlin Wall era, Eastern Bloc
doped, dopes, doping, scandal, scandals, scandalous, scandalously, scandalize, scandalized