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Description: Sports stars are among the most respected and have the most loyal fans of any people. We don’t even support celebrities or even presidents to the way a sports fan will devote their life to a team, player, or sport. So when a player cheats in a game or a coach is dishonest a shudder goes through the nation. We expect our heroes to be better than that to be superhuman because they are special and talented not because they're playing tricks or using illegal substances. Subscribe to Knowledge Feed for awesome mysteries, discoveries, fun topics and all around AWESOME videos ! 3. Ben Johnson A man who disappointed the nation. The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson winner of the bronze medal in the 1984 Olympics entered into the 1988 Seoul Olympics and beat his rival Carl Lewis. Taking home the gold and setting a new world record of 9.79 seconds all sound like grea t things, but it’s the shameful way in which it was done is essential. Canada had it’s champion.. if only for a while. Ben went on to win a gold medal in the ‘87 World Championship, but both gold medals were stripped away from him after he tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid called stanozolol. You could really call this a hero to zero story. Olympic winners become heroes and national pride is placed on their shoulders and they're paraded in front of the world. His greatest rival Carl Lewis was awarded the gold, and he was sent home in disgrace. In the beginning, he tried to say that it wasn’t true that someone had spiked his drink in Seoul. But he then contradicted himself in later interviews stating, “but I wasn’t alone when it came to cheating… but back then the media made it look like I was the only one”. 2. Pete Rose The Pete Rose scandal is a lot different than the usual sports situations. This is a team manager who bet on his own team, the Cincinnati Reds, to win. You may ask yourself “How could that be wrong?” The most straightforward answer would be a section in the Major League Baseball Rule 21(d) which states: Any player, umpire, or club or league official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible. It starts to come down to the integrity of the game where a member of a team places their financial interest above the interests of the team as a whole. It should also be said that he didn’t bet on his team to win every single time, he did it when he felt sure that his team was going to win. This, even if it was unintentional, gives a clue to everyone else betting know what his state of mind was entering a game. It can be compared to insider trading because he knows on an individual level how well the team will play that game. This gives a heads up to everyone else when to bet on the team or against it. As a team manager, he was compromised, and his ban from baseball for life is actually still debated. Tonya Harding A skating prodigy, Tonya Harding, was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in a competition in 1991. Unfortunately, that isn’t the main thing people think about when she comes to mind. You might think of the iconic photo of her skate breaking and her pleading and crying to the judges “It’s not going to hold me!”. Or her infamous name is associated with people guarding their knees against a clubbing. Until recently she denied knowing anything about the assault on her opponent Nancy Kerrigan, by her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly. Early January of this year in an interview ABC’s Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding special she admitted to overhearing her ex and his friend Shawn Eckhardt plot to “take somebody out” soon before Nancy got her knees knocked in. Harding holds onto her innocent plea though; she still doesn’t understand why people think she’s a bad person. She may not have gone to prison, but she got the most essential part of her life stripped away when she was banned from skating for life. She’s back in the spotlight since I, Tonya the movie came out and there’s a lot of concern that people will sympathize too much now that so many years have passed, but you have to remember the facts. Thank for watching and click the subscribe button so that you are notified when we post new videos!