Scandal has surrounded every aspect of the Winter Games in Sochi. From anti-gay remarks to stray dog slaughtering to environmental concerns to shoddy construction to yogurt wars to — well, you get the point.
But the Sochi Games is far from the first time Olympic festivities have been marred by scandal involving both the competitions and the social conditions surrounding the event at a whole.
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During the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis, a marathon runner who finished in first place was later disqualified for driving a car throughout most of the race. In 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime oversaw the games in Berlin. Two decades ago, an associate of U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding's then-husband assaulted her compatriot and competitor Nancy Kerrigan weeks before the games in Lillehammer, Norway.
The map below tells the story of 20 Olympics controversies, starting in ancient Greece and ending in Sochi.
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