Editing Uzbekistan (section)

=== Sport ===
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{{Main|Sport in Uzbekistan}}
{{See also|Uzbekistan at the Olympics|Football in Uzbekistan|Rugby union in Uzbekistan}}
[[File:Bunyodkor stadium2 b.jpg|thumb|[[Milliy Stadium]] in [[Tashkent]]]]
Uzbekistan is home to former racing cyclist [[Djamolidine Abdoujaparov]]. Abdoujaparov won the [[green jersey]] points contest in the [[Tour de France]] three times.<ref>{{cite web |title=Le Tours archive |url=http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4976.html |access-date=23 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111162430/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4976.html |archive-date=11 January 2012}}</ref> Abdoujaparov was a specialist at winning stages in tours or one-day races when the bunch or [[peloton]] would finish together. He would often 'sprint' in the final kilometer and had a reputation as being dangerous in these bunch sprints as he would weave from side to side. This reputation earned him the nickname 'The Terror of Tashkent'.<ref>{{cite web|date=13 May 2014 |title=Where Are They Now? Djamolidine Abdoujaparov |url=https://cyclingtips.com/2014/05/where-are-they-now-djamolidine-abdoujaparov/|access-date=8 July 2021 |website=CyclingTips|archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184822/https://cyclingtips.com/2014/05/where-are-they-now-djamolidine-abdoujaparov/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Artur Taymazov]] won Uzbekistan's inaugural wrestling medal at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]], followed by three Olympic gold medals in Men's 120&nbsp;kg in [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]] and [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]]. His 2008 gold was taken away in 2017 after a re-testing of samples from the Beijing Games and Taymazov was later stripped of his London 2012 Olympic gold medal after re-analysis of stored samples in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=artur-taymazov latest news & coverage |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/topic/artur-taymazov|access-date=8 July 2021|website=CNA|language=en|url-status=dead |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184235/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/topic/artur-taymazov}}</ref> His London gold had made him the most successful freestyle competitor in Olympic history. He is the 60th athlete to be disqualified from the London Olympics after the event.<ref>{{Cite news|date=23 July 2019|title=Uzbek wrestler Taymazov stripped of London 2012 gold medal|language=en|work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-doping-wrestling-idUSKCN1UI2IW|access-date=7 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185057/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-doping-wrestling-idUSKCN1UI2IW}}</ref>