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satanboy
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The already last-place Israeli team was disqualified after officials discovered they had lied about a teammate’s illness in an attempt to swap in a new athlete for the final run. They had falsely claimed one team member was sick so they could include an alternate who had not competed in earlier heats. While Russia has faced sweeping Olympic bans over international violations, Israel continues to compete despite committing genocide in Gaza.
Source: The New York Times
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Misleading. Israel's OCI (which is their SASCOC) withdrew the team, they were not disqualified by the IOC or Milano judges/organizers etc.
satanboy
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Drama at Winter Olympics: Israeli bobsled team disqualified
Team attempted to substitute an athlete in violation of competition rules by submitting a medical claim later admitted to be false; Israel reported the case to the IOC and ordered an immediate suspension pending review
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Israel disqualifies its own bobsleigh team over false statements to officials
Israeli Olympic officials have disqualified Israel’s four-man bobsleigh team from finishing their event today, Times of Israel reported on Sunday.
The Olympic Committee of Israel told the publication that it has prevented the country’s four-man bobsleigh team from taking part in today’s competition after one athlete provided false information to officials to let teammate Ward Fawarseh compete in his place.
Per the report, Israel had raced on Saturday with Adam Edelman, Menachem Chen, Uri Zisman, and Omer Katz. Although the team was originally scheduled to compete this morning with Edelman, Chen, Fawarseh, and Katz, the disqualification has halted their participation.
Fawarseh would have become Israel’s first Druze Olympian had he competed, but he arrived at the Games as an alternate and was only permitted to race if another team member was unwell.
“The bobsleigh team asked to include Ward, the substitute, in the competition. According to the rules, this is only permitted if one of the athletes is injured or ill,” the Olympic Committee of Israel said, according to Times of Israel.
“In order to make this possible, one of the team members — encouraged by his teammates — declared that he was unwell. He even went for a medical examination and signed an affidavit so that the Olympic Committee could request approval for a substitution.”
After admitting that he had lied, the athlete told the head of the delegation that he “had acted improperly,” forcing the Olympic Committee to withdraw the request and disqualify the move, the OCI said.
The committee called the team’s actions “improper” and said they “go against fair and sportsmanlike conduct.”
After the first two runs on Saturday, Israel’s team was in 24th place out of 27, following crashes by three sleds during the second run.