Category:Sports controversies

• Sports controversies by sport (18 C)

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• Sports scandals (4 C, 8 P)

A

• Sports-related accidents and incidents (6 C, 8 P)
• Age controversies in sports (40 P)
• Animal welfare in sports (3 C, 2 P)
• Sport and apartheid in South Africa (3 C, 9 P)

B

• Brawls in team sports (1 C, 43 P)

C

• Cheating in sports (6 C, 38 P)
• Commonwealth Games controversies (4 P)

D

• Drugs in sport (4 C, 36 P)

G

• Gaelic games controversies (2 C, 5 P)

I

• International sports boycotts (35 P)

L

• Sports labor disputes (3 C, 11 P)
• LGBTQ-related controversies in sports (1 C, 8 P)

O

• Olympic Games controversies (3 C, 69 P)

P

• Paralympic Games controversies (1 C, 7 P)

R

• Racism in sport (3 C, 31 P)

S

• Sex verification in sports (27 P)
• Sports events affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 C, 152 P)
• Sports events affected by the War in Donbas (9 P)
• Sportspeople banned for life (159 P)

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• List of professional sportspeople convicted of crimes
• List of sporting scandals

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• 29th LG Cup World Baduk Championship final controversy
• 2018 Adelaide Crows pre-season camp
• 2019 East Asian Youth Games
• 2021 All England Open

A

• Animal treatment in rodeo
• Australian Open extreme heat policy
• Arina Averina
• Dina Averina

B

• Battle of Brookvale
• BeoutQ
• Alexander Bolshunov
• Boosting (doping)

C

• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
• Morgan Ciprès
• Concerns and controversies at the 42nd Chess Olympiad
• Concerns and controversies at the 45th Chess Olympiad
• Concerns and controversies at the 2014 Asian Games
• Concerns and controversies at the 2017 SEA Games
• Concerns and controversies at the 2018 Asian Games
• Concerns and controversies at the 2019 SEA Games
• Concussions in American football
• Concussions in high school sports
• Concussions in sport
• Victor Conte
• Controversies related to 2013 disqualification of Polish 4x400 m relay in Gothenburg
• Controversy over the title of the 1987 Brazilian football champion
• Geo Cronjé
• Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks supplements saga

D

• Dakar Rally
• Foekje Dillema

E

• EJ Obiena–PATAFA dispute
• Essendon Football Club supplements saga

F

• Peter Foley (snowboarding)
• Fresno Case

G

• Ueli Gegenschatz
• Bill Guerin

H

• Alen Hadzic
• Maggie Haney
• Tonya Harding
• Head Games (film)

J

• Jane Blalock v. Ladies Professional Golf Association
• Judenklub

K

• 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition controversy
• Georgios Katidis
• Stephen Kovacs
• Ivan Kuliak

L

• Let's Go Brandon
• Panama Lewis
• Line in the Sand Match
• LIV Golf
• Frederick Lorz

M

• Maccabiah bridge collapse
• Malice at the Palace
• Marathon course-cutting
• Mechanical doping
• Phil Mickelson
• Mike Rossi (DJ)
• Ross Miner
• Byron Moreno
• Vladimir Morozov (figure skater)
• George H. Morris
• Marijke Moser

N

• Larry Nassar
• New Orleans Saints bounty scandal
• Nike Vaporfly and Tokyo 2020 Olympics controversy

P

• Participation trophy
• Dorando Pietri
• Poseur

R

• Race and sports
• Racial issues faced by Black quarterbacks
• Removal of Indonesia as 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup hosts
• Luis Resto (boxer)
• Rosie Ruiz
• Running up the score
• Evgeny Rylov

S

• Khalid Salman
• Roman Shirokov
• Vijay Singh
• Victoria Sinitsina
• Sockgate
• Nikolaj Sørensen
• Adelina Sotnikova
• Split in darts
• Sports teams named Redskins
• Sportswashing
• Sportswashing in Saudi Arabia
• Veronika Stepanova
• Controversies in professional sumo
• Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy

T

• Evgenia Tarasova
• Angelo Taylor
• Technology doping
• Scott Touzinsky

U

• U.S. national anthem protests
• U.S. national anthem kneeling protests
• USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal

V

• Kamila Valieva
• Violence in sports

W

• 1998 World Cup terror plot
• 2024 World Masters of Snooker

Z

• John Zimmerman (figure skater)