Perhaps, no matter how bullish the director, no matter how imaginative the screenwriter, can not write the following script.
The 2012 London Olympics freestyle wrestling 120 kg competition will forever go down in history after a lapse of ten years. Because the winners and runners-up on the podium at that time were stripped of their medals and cancelled their results because of doping.
The bronze medallist won the gold medal in the supplement, but the good times did not last long, and he was also banned for 4 years for doping. The winners, runners-up, and runners-up were all doping, which is rare in Olympic history.
On March 11, Beijing time, American Dragonev finally won the bronze medal in the 120 kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 London Olympics.
In fact, in that tournament, Dragonev stopped in the quarter-finals, perhaps he never dreamed that ten years later, his performance would rise to third place.
The eyes return to such a ridiculous match for a moment, when the 2012 London Olympics freestyle wrestling 120 kg final, Uzbekistan's Atul Taimazov and Georgia's Davit Mozmanashvili defeated Russia's Markkhov and Iran's Gohasmi in the semi-finals, respectively, to meet the final.
In the final, Taimazov excelled in defeating Mozmanashvili to win the championship, while Markkhov and Gohasmi tied for third place, both won bronze medals.
In 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency announced that after re-testing the London Olympic urine samples of Taimazov and Mozmanashvili, it was determined that both men's samples contained doping, so that both gold and silver medals were withdrawn and the results were invalidated.
With no third-place competition in the wrestling competition, Russia's Markkhov and Iran's Gohasmi won the gold medal side by side, and in 2020, both received the coveted gold medal.
It stands to reason that the elimination of one gold medalist and the addition of two gold medalists are already very rare. Even more unexpectedly, in September 2021, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency announced that Markhof was banned for four years for testing positive and violating anti-doping regulations!
At this point, the results of the absurd competition changed ten years later, when the winner and runner-up were cancelled due to doping, and the bronze medalist won the gold medal, but was also banned for doping. The athlete who stopped in the quarter-finals unexpectedly won a medal ten years later!