Gave the bras d'honneur gesture to the partisan Soviet public He then took two further vaults and broke the world record. The gesture nearly led to the authorities' taking away his gold medal.
Which small country won its only Olympic gold medals since it first participated in 1936, at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, USA?
After Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100 metre dash at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, why was his gold medal taken away and awarded to runner-up Carl Lewis?
