Olympians who have committed terrible crimes
Olympic competition is surely one of the greatest moments in an athlete's life. After dedicating years of their lives to the unique and challenging pursuit of perfection, there must be nothing but relief, justification, and a thrill to stand on a podium with a shiny bauble around her neck while their national anthem is playing and everyone who has ever doubted them is shaking their head in disbelief while watching on TV at home.
But what comes after the Olympics? Depending on the sport, they could go Pro, or title of an exhibition (like the Ice Capades), then land a few endorsement offers, or show up on a box of cheeses. Then life goes on and they go back to all the jobs they had before, or they raise a family-stuff like regular life. For some, this life after the Olympics included a slide in the sad, dark, and criminal. These people committed rather nasty acts, and were caught by the police.
1 The "Blade Runner" killed his girlfriend
The South African runner Oscar Pistorius was born without fibula (one of the bones that connects your knee to your ankle), and his legs were amputated in childhood. Running on Cheetahs Flex-foot, slender, advanced carbon fiber prostheses (which earned him the nickname "Blade Runner"), Pistorius nevertheless became one of the greatest sprinters in the world, winning a medal in the 200-meter at the 2004 Paralympic Games, just two years after he took the race. In 2012, he became the first Paralympic Sprinter to compete in the Olympics, too, running in the 400-meter.
It's all largely forgotten because of what happened on Valentine's Day 2013. Pistorius says in the middle of the night he heard what he thought was a window opening in a room bathroom. Thinking he had a home invasion on his hands, he grabbed his rifle, approached the darkened room, felt a presence ... and started shooting. He was not an intruder, though-it was his girlfriend, reeva Steenkamp. The prosecution claimed that the two were fighting and that he killed her angrily. After a seven-month trial in 2014, a South African judge found Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide (the equivalent of manslaughter), in that he acted imprudently, but did not want to kill Steenkamp. He served a five-year prison sentence before being transferred to house arrest. Then a court of appeal overturned this verdict, changing Pistorius' crime into murder. And then his sentence was increased to the legal minimum of 15 years behind bars.
2 Paul Hamm exploded his life over $23
At the 2004 Olympics, the seemingly sweet Paul Hamm won men's gymnastics all around, the first American to win the event. Hamm has provided a lot of fodder for video packages of human interest that operate during the Olympics by having a twin brother, Morgan, who also participated in the American Gymnastics Team this year.
In 2011, Paul Hamm made headlines again, but not for his abilities on the high bar. Hamm went out to party on a Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio, and took a cab to the house. He fell asleep on the way, and when the driver woke up the sleeping Olympian, Hamm would not pay his $ 23 fare. Then he became furious and violent. "I tried to help him open the window and he said '[expletive] you' and he hit me with his elbow on my mouth," taxi driver Abdinasir Elmi told the local CBS affiliate. "Hamm damaged this window, and he would also have kicked and punched Elmi." When the police arrived, Hamm did not go quietly after admitting that he had consumed "probably eight drinks" that night, "Hamm told the agents (on video)," you guys are so funny, you have no idea, I'm going to kill you. "After being charged with assault and other crimes, Hamm did not finally pleaded no contest and was put on probation.
3 Fast runner, fast slide down
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Tim Montgomery was among the fastest people on earth. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, he won a silver medal as part of the US 400 meter relay team; in the same event at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Montgomery took home the gold. Two years later, he ran the 100 meters in 9.78 seconds in an international competition.
Montgomery was then linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), the sports medicine facility designed to distribute performance-enhancing drugs to elite athletes. In 2005, the Court of Arbitration for Sport awarded Montgomery a two-year ban on his sport. (The rider later admitted that he had used both testosterone and human growth hormone.) Needing to make a living in another way, Montgomery teamed up with the Olympian Steve Riddick and colleagues started a lucrative check fraud scheme that their $ 1.7 million net ... and Montgomery, a plea of guilty on fraud charges that resulted in a sentence of 46 months in prison. In calling the case, police in Virginia arrested Montgomery for selling heroin. That added five years to his prison sentence, which he eventually served a little over four years.
4 The veterinarian and the Olympic shooter who killed his young lover
Dr. James Pike was a graduate of and later a professor at the Veterinary College of Ohio State University. (He also invented a very used spaying tool called the pike hook.) Not only could he cut a dog in the right places, he was good with a gun, and in 1920 he took his skills all over the place. way to the Olympics. At the age of 42, pike won two gold medals, one for the 30-meter military pistol test, and the other in the 50-meter. All that was a distant memory of 1926, when pike began an affair with the University student and veterinary stenographer stenographer Theora Hix, a 23-year-old junior pike. (Pike later described the relationship as one of carnal convenience: "I never loved Miss Hix and she did not love me, she served my purposes and I served her." what a sweet-talker.)
In June 1929, Pike took Hix for an evening of drug-taking and love in his model T. Pike apparently endured so much pain during the romantic part of the evening that he reached for a hammer that he kept in the car and hit Hix in the head with him a few times. Then he slit his throat with a penknife to finish the job. After the remains of Hix were discovered, the pike was stopped and confessed. In February 1930, he met his end in the electric chair.
5 From the pool to the registry
One thing Olympians can do when they return to civilian life: coach. Who would not want someone who participated in the Olympics to train their kids in this sport very? Well, if the coach in question is Doug Northway, an Olympic swimmer who went to jail for revolting accusations, no parent would want him as a coach.
Northway was a three-time Olympian. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, he won a bronze medal in the 1,500-meter Freestyle, participated (but did not medal) in the Freestyle 800 meters at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and made the team for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which the United States ultimately boycotted. After retiring from the competition, Northway became a pastor and swimming instructor in Tucson, Arizona. Until 1995, when a 9-year-old Northway student told her parents that the coach had tried to pet her. After an investigation and an arrest, Northway was tried for pedophilia attempt. A judge found him guilty and sentenced him to four months in prison, probation and registration as a sex offender.
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6 Dick Boushka was the real deal on the court, and a fraud off it
The American men's national basketball absolutely smoked the competition in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, winning all eight of ict games on the way to gold medals, with '92 Dream Team-esque scores of 101-29 and 121-53. Future Celtics Legends and Hall of Famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones Provided a lot of the scoring, goal Dick Boushka Was no slouch Either, averaging 8 points per game in That Particular Olympiad. He was also a huge star in college ball, averaging 19.6 points per game over three seasons at Saint Louis University. Although drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers, Boushka never played in the NBA. He went on to the President of a petroleum company and spearheaded the construction of a dog-racing track in Kansas. Entrenched in the world of big money and land development, 69-year-old Boushka wound up going to jail for assorted white collar crimes in 2004. A federal judge gave _him_ 70 months for a bank fraud charge 70 months for making a false statement to obtain a loan, and 60 months on "one count of omission of material information in the sale of a security".
7 Riddick Boy a fait des choses terribles à sa famille
Riddick Boy is a well-known heavyweight boxing champion, taking the title in one of the sport's golden eras, the '90s, alongside guys like Evander Holyfield, whom he twice beat and lost once. But before his 43-1 career record, Boy won the silver medal for the United States in Seoul in 1988 in the super heavyweight class.
In 1998, the Boy committed shocking crimes against his relatives. Seeking to revive his relationship with his ex-wife, Judy, Boy kidnapped his and their five children at Knife-point from their home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and forced them into a car at the head of his home in Fort Washington, Maryland. When they stopped at Mcdonald's (as in a kidnapping attempt, apparently), Judy snuck into the bathroom and used a cell phone to ask a parent to call her. police. The officers quickly stopped the boxer.
Brain damage was a problem in the trial, as a psychiatrist testified that the Boy had suffered as many punches to his head in the Ring as he had affected his judgment to the extent that his family's abduction seemed to be a good idea. In 2000, a judge in North Carolina sentenced Riddick Boy to 30 days in federal prison, six months of house arrest, four years of probation, and an order to undergo medical treatment for brain injuries in the ring.
8 America's greatest Olympian was drunk behind the wheel
As a sort of hybrid supercharged dolphin-human, swimmer Michael Phelps has been the medal-winning medalist for nearly 20 years. Competing in five different Olympics from 2000 to 2016, Phelps won a total of 28 medals, including 23 gold, the largest medal count of a man ever for an American. Phelps also fought privately with alcohol. In November 2004, police in Maryland arrested Phelps after he had stopped. An officer found that Phelps had a blood alcohol level of .08-just at Maryland's legal limit, but not good because Phelps was not yet 21 years old. He pleaded guilty and got an 18-month probation and a judge's order to stay away from alcohol and drugs.
Nearly 10 years later, in September 2014, Maryland police once again caught Phelps for driving under the influence. They pulled him after he deviated in the other way while driving through a tunnel, and also to go 84 in a 45 mph zone. In an alcohol test, Phelps hit .14, well above the legal threshold. Once again, Phelps received 18 months of probation, but indicated that he was seeking therapy for his problem and had attended anonymous alcoholic meetings.
9 The short and violent life of Alex de Jesus
His nickname was "El Pollo," but Alex de Jesus was not a chicken. After all, he entered the ring as an amateur boxer in his homeland of Puerto Rico before quickly switching to major international matches in the early 2000s. The super lightweight won the silver medal at the 2002 America's Games Caribbean and the 2003 Pan American Games. From there he was on the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where Jesus fought two matches, winning one and losing the other, and for lack of medal. Upon his return to Puerto Rico, de Jesus turned Pro and won almost all his first 20 fights. Then his career and his life suffered a hiccup when, in 2010, he was arrested and sentenced to four years and more in prison for domestic violence and arms charges.
He resumed his career during his release, as well as his disturbing violent manners. In 2016, Jesus' mother-in-law filed a criminal complaint against the 33-year-old boxer, claiming he had assaulted her. Just a few hours after the Puerto Rican police put a warrant for Jesus' arrest, he was shot dead 12 times while walking down the street.
10 As it turned out, Ryan Lochte was the author, not the victim
Ryan Lochte: swimming champion (12 medals in four Olympic games), dancing with competing stars ... and liar's big time. Towards the end of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Lochte and three other American swimmers were in a taxi when, as Lochte reported to NBC, "we were stopped, in the cab, and these guys are went out with a badge, a police badge, no light, nothing but a police badge and they stopped us. "Then, Lochte says," they took out their weapons, they told the other swimmers to come down on the "One of the men would then have put the gun to Lochte's head and stole his wallet, but left the swimmer's phone and the Olympic qualifications behind.
The local police investigated and found absolutely no evidence that the Hold-up took place ... but they discovered the safety images of Lochte and his fellow swim-bros vandalizing a gas station-they would have urinated all over the bathroom, for example. A man had pointed a gun at Lochte that night, but he was a security officer at the gas station. The police accused Lochte of falsely disclosing a crime to the authorities, but he had already left the country and the charge was later dismissed.
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