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1896, Athens: Chariots of Cheating
During the inaugural Olympic marathon, Spyridon Belokas cheated by taking a carriage ride for a good chunk of the race. Yet somehow, even with that extra boost, he only managed to cross the finish line in third place…?

1900, Paris: Women?! Quele Scandale
Twenty years before American women could vote, they were allowed to compete in the Olympics, causing quite the stir. (That first year they could only compete in five events: tennis, equestrian, sailing, croquet, and golf, but it was still a pretty huge deal.)

1904, St. Louis: I Would’ve Won the Race, But the Car Broke Down
You think he would’ve learned from that guy in 1896, but…nope. In 1904, American marathon runner Fred Lorz stopped running after nine miles and hopped in his manager’s car to be driven for the next ELEVEN miles. The car broke down a few miles short of the finish line so Lorz walked the rest of the way to the stadium, prompting people who saw him arrive on foot to greet him as the victor. Rather than keep the charade up too long, he admitted that he wasn’t really the winner before he was found out…but not before indulging it for a little.

1908, London: Whose Rules Rule, Exactly?
What to do when two countries can’t agree on the rules of a particular event? You go with the home court protocol…even if you get a ton of backlash for it. That’s what happened in 1908 in the finals of the men’s 400-meter race, when American John Carpenter maneuvered to block Britain’s Wyndham Halswelle— legal under American track rules, but illegal in Great Britain. Carpenter was promptly disqualified, because the Olympics were being held in London. Yet the other two qualifiers left with Halswelle were American and were so angered by the ruling against Carpenter that they protested the ruling by also boycotting the final. In the end, Halswelle ran the redo of the final all by himself. (Spoiler: he won.)

1932, Los Angeles: What Was That Noise?
After winning the silver medal in dressage, Swedish athlete Bertil Sandström was moved to last place for allegedly using illegal methods of controlling his horse—making clicking noises, to be exact. Sandstrom insisted it was just the creaking of his saddle, so we’ll never know for sure what that sound actually was.

1936, Berlin: Gender Testing, and a Twist
In 1936, defending 100-meter dash gold medalist Stella Walsh of Poland lost the race to American Helen Stephens. Walsh’s supporters weren’t exactly good sports: They responded by crying out that Stephens’s time was simply too fast for a woman, and demanded that a gender examination be performed. Stephens submitted to the humiliating test, letting the Olympic committee perform a physical examination to confirm that she was a woman. The story doesn’t totally end there, crazily enough. Decades later, Stella Walsh was shot to death outside a Cleveland shopping mall in 1980, and when they performed an autopsy, it was discovered that Stella Walsh, actually, had male genitalia—not Helen Stephens.

1960, Rome: No Shoes Needed
In 1960, “barefoot” style running wasn’t a trend. But Ethiopian Abebe Bikila made barefoot running the talk of the entire world when he won the marathon sans footwear—which, despite all the nice shoes he’d been sent by Adidas, was actually the way he had trained for the race.

1960, Rome: The Repeat Offenders
During the fencing portion of the pentathlon, Tunisian athletes tried to pull a fast one on everyone…and failed. They attempted to secretly send out their expert swordsman each and every time instead of different people on the their team, and just hoped that no one would notice. The third time the same fencer came out, however, the hoax was discovered.

1960, Rome: Let’s Eyeball It?
American Lance Larson and Australian John Devitt finished the 100-meter freestyle swim within split seconds of each other. Back then, without any hi-tech gear to determine the winner, there was nothing to decide the victor other than the judges’ eyeballs, and no one could agree. Ultimately, after about a day, the judges gave the win to Devitt, even though Larson touched the side first.

1964, Tokyo: Gender Testing Isn’t Reliable
Ewa Kłobukowska, a Polish sprinter, competed in the 4×100 meter relay and the 100-meter sprint and took home a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. (That’s her on the right, above the 3, winning her bronze.) In 1967, she failed a gender test and was stripped of her 1964 medals. Yet, once again, the story doesn’t end there. After Klobukowska gave birth to her son years later, people realized that she must have had a genetic abnormality that made her have one chromosome too many. Gender testing: awful, inhumane, and flawed. No one wins.

1968, Mexico City: Body Language
GymnastVěraČáslavská became a heroine of the Czech people when she spent the medal ceremonies for the balance beam and floor events with her head turned down and away from the Soviet flag, in protest of the Soviet-led invasion of her country.

1968, Mexico City: The First Case of Performance-Enhancing Drugs
1968 was also the year that the first Olympic athlete tested positive for the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He was Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a Swedish pentathlete who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use (which, for many of us, is not a performance-enhancing drug).

1968, Mexico City: The Black Power Salute
During the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race, American athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith wore black gloves and made the gesture to mimic the Black Power salute. (Their shoeless, socked feet was to represent black poverty.) It was quite the political statement about civil rights, and one that got them kicked out of the games by the IOC chair. (Little known fact: the silver medalist, Australian Peter Norman, may look like he’s not participating, but he’s actually making a very big statement too by wearing a human rights badge on his uniform. Thirty-eight years later when Norman died, both Carlos and Smith were pallbearers at his funeral.)

1972, Munich: Wait…Who Is That Guy?
It may look like this guy is clearly leading the pack of marathon runners…and indeed that’s what everyone first thought when he was the first person seen sprinting into the stadium at the end of the marathon. But he was actually just a prankster German student who was not an Olympic athlete…like, at all. (The real winner was American Frank Shorter.)

1972, Munich: No Pros Allowed
Yep, in 1972, alpine skiing was a summer Olympics event. Austrian skier Karl Schranz was declared ineligible because he had been photographed at a soccer game wearing a T-shirt with a coffee advertisement printed on it. (Back in those days, you were still supposed to be an “amateur” to compete in the Olympics, and wearing an ad on your body means that you were a “professional.”)

1972, Munich: The Korbut Flip
1972 was the year that Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut performed a now-banned gymnastics move known as the “Korbut flip.” (On the uneven bars, the Korbut flip involves the gymnast standing on the high bar, doing a back flip and then re-grasping the bar.) It’s now outlawed because of the risk in performing it, but man, did it get people talking back then.

1972, Munich: Really Bad Refs
Yes, 1972 brought the first ever loss for Team USA basketball since the sport began Olympic play in 1936….but that wasn’t why it was such a big deal. It was the how of the loss: With just three seconds left on the clock, the Russians were down, and the officials got sloppy, giving them another chance to inbound the ball after unsuccessfully attempting it once. (That is not the way the game is usually played.) “Forty years later, it is still being replayed,” writes the New York Times of that watershed game, and it’s still disputed if they should’ve been allowed to inbound and hit the buzzer beater that won them the gold in a victory of 51-50 over the disgruntled Americans.

1976, Montreal: A Score of WHAT Now?
1976: The year Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event. It was such an unprecedented feat that they didn’t even have a way to relay what had happened, with the score registering as “1.00” on the electronic scoreboard because 9.99 was the board’s limit!

1976, Montreal: Boris the Cheat
Boris Onishchenko, a Ukrainian pentathlete, was the three-time world champion in the event, but that still didn’t stop him from cheating at the ’76 Olympics. By tampering with the sensors on his equipment, he made it seem like he was making contact with his opponents when he really wasn’t at all. His scheme was uncovered almost immediately, resulting in his ejection from the Olympics and newspapers dubbing him “Boris the Cheat.”

1980, Moscow: The Bras d’honneur
Polish pole vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz won the gold medal in his event, but then made himself even more famous by showing an obscene bras d’honneur gesture in all four directions to the jeering Soviet public. As a result, he was almost stripped of his medal…but was a hero to the Polish people.

1984, Los Angeles: Whose Fault Is It, Anyway?
During the women’s 3000-meter race, American Mary Decker collided with South African Zola Budd, causing Decker to fall completely and lose the race. Decker blamed Budd, and Budd blamed Decker, and no one ever fully took the blame.

1984, Los Angeles: The Not-So-Convincing Body Double
If you can’t compete…send in your twin? That’s what Madeline de Jesus, the Puerto Rican track and field athlete, was thinking when she was injured after the long jump event; she tried to send in her twin sister, Margaret, to run in a qualifying heat while she recovered. But as soon as the Puerto Rican coach got wind of her intentions, he shut the whole thing down.

1988, Seoul: First Stop, Head Injury, Next Stop…Gold?
You can see it clearly here: American diver Greg Louganis is hitting his head on the diving board in the preliminary rounds of the Olympics. He suffered a concussion after the gasp-worthy accident, and yet…he still went on the win the gold, earning the victory by a margin of 25 points.

1988, Seoul: Ben Johnson
Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100-meter race (that’s him with his arm up in the air, celebrating) but the sweet feeling of victory didn’t last long. He was disqualified for doping three days later and promptly stripped of his medal.

1988, Seoul: Knockout Decision
When the judges declared that American Roy Jones Jr. officially lost the championship bout to South Korean Park Si-Hun, it was an outrage: Most people there though Roy Jones Jr. would’ve clearly been the winner—and with good reason. Jones pummeled Park for three rounds, landing 86 punches to Park’s 32. (Later, judges admitted to having been wined and dined by the South Korean officials and feeling pressure to award a medal to their athlete.)

2000, Sydney: Measuring Up
True: that gymnast is high up in the air. Also true: that vault is low to the ground…too low. At the 2000 Olympics, Australian gymnast Alanna Slater speculated that the vault wasn’t positioned at the right height, and when they measured it, she was right: It was two inches lower than it should’ve been, which is why it was messing with people’s routines. Ultimately, five gymnasts were given the option to redo the event, but it definitely caused disruption and threw many off their game before the error was caught.

2000, Sydney: Always Check the Labels
When Romanian gymnast Andreea Răducan asked her coach for something to cure her cold during the Olympics, he gave her Nurofen, an over-the-counter cold medicine…and effectively ruined her whole 2000 Olympics by not checking the ingredients list. Apparently Nurofen contains pseudophedrine, an illegal substance for Olympic athletes (though it’s just a nasal decongestant!). After being drug tested, Răducan was stripped of one of her gold medals for the violation.

2004, Athens: Radcliffe Faces Scrutiny
Twenty two miles into the marathon, British athlete Paula Radcliffe collapsed and was unable to finish the race. She faced lots of scrutiny from the press that she should’ve just pressed on and at least try to walk it, and debate still continues as to whether she pulled out because she knew she would not catch Japanese winner Mizuki Noguchi, or because she actually physically could not go on. But even the fact that people questioned her “intentions” was a scandal, with many people saying the British press was being unfairly hard on Radcliffe because she was a woman.

2008, Beijing: the Age-Old Debate
He Kexin, a Chinese gymnast, won two gold medals during the 2008 Olympics…all the while dealing with speculation that she wasn’t allowed to compete. Though her passport stated she was 16 years old at the time of the Olympics, several other registration systems featured a 1994 birthday for her, making her 14 during the Olympics and ineligible. Speaking to reporters after the 2008 Olympic team final, Kexin said, “My real age is 16. I don’t care what other people say,” and the IOC agreed to leave it at that.

2008, Beijing: Official Attack
After he was disqualified for going overtime on an allotted time-out, Cuban Taekwondo athlete Angel Matos put his martial arts skills to the wrong use and attacked two officials. Both he and his coach were banned from the Olympics…for life.

2012, London: the Waiting Game
South Korean épée fencer Shin Lam had a one-point lead over German Britta Heidemann in the semifinal match-up when the clock accidentally gave the German a split-second advantage. The time glitch was enough to essentially give Heidemann the victory over Lam, and then―since the official rules of fencing state that once you leave the mat you accept the result―Lam had to stay on the mat while judges reviewed their appeal…for an hour. Even still, in the end it was ruled a German victory.

2012, London: Too Many Americans
American gymnast Jordyn Wieber finished fourth overall in the individual all-around gymnastics final qualifiers, but still did not make the finals. Why? An obscure Olympics rule that no country may have more than two gymnasts competing for the all-around title. Since the second and third place athletes were also American, gymnasts from other countries with lesser scores were sent to the Olympics instead of Wieber.

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Everybody loves a good good drinking game. But, all over the world different games have emerged that fit perfectly into each individual culture. Some of these games may sound like fun, while others may seem like the worst idea in the world. Whatever your drinking game preference may be, we can all still raise a glass in the air and agree to let the games begin.

United States – Beer Pong
This game swept across the United States as students began to play in frat houses and dorm rooms. The idea caught on, quickly sweeping the nation and inevitably the world. If you need an explanation of the rules, just head to the nearest college campus on a friday night.

United Kingdom – Pence
This is definitely a simple game, and one that requires little actual skill. At the beginning of the night, one coin is dropped into a glass of beer. Whoever’s beer it is must finish the glass. Once that person finishes the beer, they ask the person who dropped the coin what year is displayed on the coin. If they answer incorrectly, then they must finish their drink themselves. After all of this, the coin finds a new beer and the cycle continues.

Korea – Napkin, Beer, Cigarette
Not everyone is a smoker, but many South Koreans enjoy their fair share of nicotine.

To play this game, you need to place a napkin on top of a glass of beer. Next, place a single coin on top of the napkin. Finally, take turns burning holes in the napkin around the coin until the coin falls in the beer. Whoever burned the hole that made the coin fall in must down the beer.

Spain – Los Chunguitos
If you like to pair music and drinking then this is the game for you. Pop on your favorite Los Chunguitos song, start clapping to the beat, and have one person start by saying, “I am Chunguitos number one.” This continues around the circle with each person announcing what their number is.

Once everyone has a number, ‘Chunguito number one’ will say their number and another players number. The player who was called out will then repeat their own number and call out another number. As this is happening, the person sitting to the right of the person who’s number was called must start imitating an instrument in the song. Once somebody forgets to add an instrument sound, then they must chug their drink and the game restarts.

Peru – Sapo
Sapo is a popular bar game in Peru where the object of is to throw coins into the frog’s mouth. Players stand about 5-7 feet away from the game board and throw coins. If a player misses any of the holes on the game board, they must take a drink. If they get a coin in one of the holes surrounding the frog, they are safe. Finally, if they throw the coin directly into the frog’s mouth, then everybody else has to finish their drink.

China – Jiuling
This game is commonly referred to as the ‘finger guessing game’ and the rules are simple. Two players look each other in the eye and decide independently how many fingers to hold up. At the same time both players will raise up however many fingers they want while simultaneously shouting out what they believe the sum of both players’ fingers is. If one player guesses right and the other guesses wrong, then the loser must take a shot. If nobody shouts out the right number, then nobody drinks and the game resets.

Germany – Kastenlauf
Germany is notorious for their beer drinking abilities and this game definitely proves that. To play the game, separate into teams of two and grab a case of beer for each team. Next, establish a route (typically between 3-8 miles) and begin to race towrds the final destination on foot. The first team to reach the destination with an empty case of beer is declared the winner.

Essentially this is like the real life version of “Beerio Kart,” minus the go-karts.

Canada – Alcohockey
Oh, Canada. Always finding new and impressive ways to get intoxicated. Alcohockey requires a customized air hockey table that has slots for cups.

The game is played just like any other game of air hockey, except when the puck falls into a cup, the player must down the contents of the cup. It’s like beer pong meets hockey.

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Latin America – Dudo
Think Yahtzee but with drinking. This game features five dice that get shaken in a cup. instead of rolling the dice for all to see, the roller must slam the cup down, peek under to see what he’s rolled, and then say how many numbers they are showing, whether its the truth or not (i.e. “I have four sixes.”). The other players can either choose to believe the roller or call “Bullshit.” If the roller was bluffing and gets called on it, then he must take a shot. If the roller was telling the truth and a player claims that it’s a bluff, then that player must take a shot. This is a great way to ruin friendships while simultaneously getting drunk.

Ireland – Irish Quarters
This one is really simple, but it will definitely get you really drunk. I mean REALLY drunk. Start the game with a full mug of beer and spin a coin on a table. Then chug your beer and grab the coin before it stops spinning. If the coin is no longer spinning when you are finished chugging your beer then you get to do it all over again!

Cuba – Drunk Jenga
You may have played jenga, but have you played drunk Jenga? In Cuba, the popular block-stacking game is often customized to make drinking even more fun. Players will take markers and write rules on each block. A few examples would be, “take a shot” or “take two drinks.” When a player removes the block, they must complete whatever the block says before the game can continue.

Japan – Ping Pong Pang
It’s no secret that Japan comes up with some things that seem very strange to outside cultures. This even correlates into their drinking games. Ping Pong Pang is one of the simplest Japanese drinking games and it actually sounds kind of fun.

To play, grab a circle of friends and have one person start the game by exclaiming, “Ping!” The person to their right will then exclaim, “Pang!” Finally, the person to their right will then exclaim,”Pong,” and simultaneously point at someone random in the circle. Whoever gets pointed at must yell “ping” immediately, and if they forget or falter, then the rest of the group shouts, “iki iki iki,” prompting the loser to drink.

Russia – Tiger’s Coming
Now here’s a game we can all get behind. Leave it to Russia to create the drinking games that get you the drunkest.

To play, get a group of friends and sit around a table and nominate someone as the leader. Next, pour everyone a shot of vodka… obviously. Finally, the leader will shout “tiger’s coming,” promting everyone to jump under the table and down their shot. Once the leader announces that the tiger is gone, everone comes back up to the table, pours another shot, and the game resets. Sounds like a great time.

Russia – Bear Paw
Of course, another insane drinking game from Russia. Before you ask, the answer is yes, the game does involve vodka.

To play the game, fill up one mug of beer and have a group of you and your friends stand in a circle. Pass the mug around the circle with each person taking a drink of the beer. Before passing to the next person, each player must replace the beer that they just drank with an equal amount of vodka. The game ends when the mug is clear with vodka and no more beer is left. Once the mug is completely clear, the game starts again, but you play it backwards, replacing the vodka you drank with beer. We tried this one in a group of 8 people, and nobody remembers finishing the game… play at your own risk.

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New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys, September 13, 8:30 PM
The season opens with a pace-setting NFC East matchup. The Giants are coming off an injury-filled regret of a season while the Cowboys are the new division favorite. This game could go a long way to showing if that will be the case at the end of the season

Buffalo Bills at Philadelphia Eagles, December 13, 1 PM
With a new coach, a shiny new running back, and a lot of new support all over the field, the Bills have two primetime games for the first time in nine years. But it’s this early match-up that will have McCoy show Chip Kelly how wrong he was to deal him.

New England Patriots at Indianapolis Colts, October 18, 8:30 PM
The Colts are trying to make a push to be one of the league’s new heavy-hitters, but they have to start with beating the pesky Patriots, who have dominated Andrew Luck all four times they’ve met by at least 21 point each time.

Green Bay Packers at Denver Broncos, November 1, 8:30 PM
Manning and Rodgers have surprisingly only played once, when Manning was on the Colts. Two of the best QBs in the game make for another great Sunday night game.

Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles, September 20, 4:25 PM
DeMarco Murray gets his first chance to show the Cowboys why he was worth more cap space than anyone else on the roster.

New England Patriots at Denver Broncos, November 29, 8:30 PM
Another year, and us lucky football fans get another Brady vs. Manning showdown. Manning will never catch up to Brady’s 11-5 record over him, but he will try to make a little dent in it this year.

Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers, December 13, 4:25 PM
The most contested play of last year gets a replay in week 14, and Dez Bryant might have a bit of a monkey on his back about it.

Seattle Seahawks at Green Bay Packers, September 20, 8:30 PM
But the entire Packers team has a monkey on their back about letting their Super Bowl chances slip away in an overtime classic. This early-season primetime slugfest is a must-watch.

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NHL – Detroit Red Wings vs. Montreal Maroons – March 24th, 1936
During the Stanley Cup Playoffs games will continue until someone is victorious, and that took six overtimes in this case. That’s 116+ minutes of hockey with a thrilling final score of 1-0.

NFL – Kansas City Chiefs vs. Miami Dolphins – December 25th, 1971
Christmas day action in 1971 lasted more than 82 minutes, well into a second overtime period. The game had 13 future Hall-of-Famers playing and was finally closed out by a 37-yard Dolphins field goal.

NBA – Indianapolis Olympians vs. Rochester Royals – January 6th, 1951
The longest NBA game took six overtimes to decide, but thanks to the lack of a shot clock, only ended 75-73.

MLB – Chicago White Sox vs. Milwaukee Brewers – May 8th, 1984
The game took 25 innings to decide (only a 1920 game had more) and took a staggering eight hours and six minutes to finish. The Brewers were leading 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth, but gave up two runs and then suffered a loss at the end of the marathon.

NCAAB – Syracuse vs. UConn – March 12th, 2009
The usually quick NCAA basketball format took more than four hours and six overtimes to turn out the lights of Madison Square Garden, with Syracuse just edging out the Huskies at the end to advance to the Big East finals.

NCAAF (D1) – Arkansas vs. Mississippi – November 3rd, 2001
The 58-56 score shows the grind of a seven-OT time, the longest in D1 NCAA football history.

Soccer – Rochester Lancers vs. Dallas Tornado – September 1st, 1971
Although soccer usually ends in a draw or shootout, the NASL playoff format in the 70’s allowed for teams to play out until there was a winner. This particular night took 176 full minutes to find a winner, almost double a standard soccer game.

John Isner vs. Nicolas Mahut – June 22nd, 2010
This marathon match took more than 11 hours over three days, and 183 games to complete. John Isner won the first round match and was rewarded with losing his next match easily from obvious exhaustion.

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The best selling console games from the last 30 years.

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This is what Winter Olympics in Sochi look like when the temperature hits 63 degrees Farenheit (17 degrees Celsius).

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Video game consoles are the best Christmas presents since the 80’s.

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The worst playing conditions at NFL games.

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You won’t get half of these pictures if you don’t play video games.

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Awesome graffiti inspired by the video games.

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Grand Theft Auto

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The Legend of Zelda

Madden NFL

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It seems like almost every TV show ever made has its own board game.

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If you are a girl who grew up in the ’90s, these toys and games will make you nostalgic.

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