Rio Olympics Were Fixed — Summer Games Scandals

The fix was in at the Rio Olympic Games, The National ENQUIRER has revealed in a blockbuster special investigation. The latest in a long line of rigged results threatens to the rock the international athletic contest to its foundation, as a team of ENQUIRER reporters has uncovered how up to 45 athletes in Rio are known dopers with a history of breaking the rules!

These include an alarming number of high-profile runners, swimmers, boxers and shot-putters from Russia, China, Greece — and even Team USA, as drug suspicions continued to dog the U.S. sprint team, including Justin Gatlin (pictured at right), Tyson Gay and LaShawn Merritt.

A secret database of 12,000 blood tests from 5,000 athletes revealed extraordinary cheating — with horrified boxing officials believing that rotten officials manipulate the draw and the judging system to ensure certain boxers will win. In leaked files provided by a whistleblower from within the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), pervasive cheating through doping and blood transfusions was found to have increased in the last decade.

Indeed, 10 athletes at the London 2012 Olympics had suspicious test results, but none were stripped of their medals before competing in Rio! Leading anti-doping expert Michael Ashenden described the revelations as “a shameful betrayal of [the IAAF’s] primary duty to police their sport and to protect clean athletes.”

Serial doper Justin Gatlin was slapped with a two-year ban for using amphetamines in 2001, and was caught again in 2006 for using another banned substance, believed to be testosterone. Tyson Gay (at right) was banned for a year after testing positive in 2013, and was stripped of his silver medal from the 2012 Olympics. He got away with a reduced ban because he turned whistleblower on those who helped him cheat.

LaShawn Merritt, a 200-meter runner (at right), served a 21-month ban for testing positive for a banned steroid in 2010 — but still cruised to competing in the Summer Games! Paul Scott, former director of clients at the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory and a founder and the chief science officer of the Agency for Cycling Ethics Inc., told The ENQUIRER the problem of doping in athletics is far more widespread than people realize.

“Athletes who are intentional dopers are difficult, but not impossible, to detect," said Paul. "If an athlete is taking smaller amounts of a banned substance, then that can be difficult for tests to pick up,. What needs to be done is that they need to be tested out of competition and more frequently.”

But, Paul warned: “If you have a corrupt laboratory, there’s nothing you can do. There’s no technology, nothing, that can beat that.” In boxing, one source charged that a group of referees get together before major championships to decide how to score certain bouts! The competition in Rio got so bad that World Champion boxer Michael Conlan showed judges his middle finger after a controversial loss to his Russian opponent!

“Amateur boxing stinks from the core right to the top," said Conlan. That opinion is matched by notorious boxing promoter Charles Farrell, who's claimed that he can’t even remember how many boxing matches he fixed. Concluded Andrew Jennings, a British investigator who uncovered widespread corruption in the International Olympic Committee: “You’ve had a signal from a corrupt organization that crooked judging, bribery and fixing of results is O.K.!”