Editing Scandal (section)

==Sports==
{{further|List of sporting scandals|Olympic Games scandals and controversies}}
A desire for success and financial gain or the abuse of power in sport have also created many scandals both at an individual and the organisational level. Scandals arising from corruption have an impact of the credibility of sport. The [[World Anti-Doping Agency]], as part of its role to "promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports", has showed that bribery, doping by athletes and doping sample-tampering, have occurred in collusion with national and international sporting organizations. Some{{who|date=February 2022}} consider that doping is "now endemic"{{when|date=February 2022}} in the world of sport and is becoming extremely pervasive, including more and more sports.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/13/doping-scandals-international-sport-any-credibility-left|first =Maurice|last = Fitzgerald|title=After the doping scandals, has international sport got any credibility left?|date=13 November 2015|access-date=15 December 2015|work=The Guardian}}</ref>

One of the biggest individual scandals flowed from revelations that former American [[road bicycle racing|road cycling]] champion [[Lance Armstrong doping case|Lance Armstrong]] had achieved success by consistent, long-term cheating. One of the biggest institutional sporting scandals is the [[2015 FIFA corruption case]]. [[Doping in sport|Doping]] scandals have plagued the [[Olympic Games]] as well, such as in the [[Doping in East Germany]] scandal and the [[1994 Asian Games#Doping scandal|Asian Games in 1994]]. Scandals in match games such as [[Major League Baseball scandals|Major League baseball]] and [[John the bookmaker controversy|cricket]] may relate to [[spot-fixing]] or [[gambling]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/top-news-of-2011/Sports-scandals-in-the-year-2011/articleshow/11300047.cms|last = V Narayan Swamy|title=Sports scandals in the year 2011 |date=30 December 2011|access-date=15 December 2015|work=The Times of India}}</ref>