Sports Trivia
In soccer, a player receives this color card as a warning before being sent off for misconduct.
A yellow card
What is the most common form of deviance in sports?
Overconformity
This term describes when athletes use illegal substances to enhance their performance.
Doping
What is the only country to have played in every FIFA World Cup?
Brazil
When athletes challenge traditional norms and expectations in their sport, creating new ways of understanding themselves and their role in society, they are often engaged in this process. (E.g., Being an athlete = being a man)
Identity Formation
What does ‘WADA’ stand for? Describe its role/function?
It stands for World Anti-Doping Agency. It is an organization that helps enforce anti-doping policies across global sports and it educates athletes on the dangers of PEDs.
This world champion was stripped of his title, and denied a boxing license for 3 years over his refusal to be drafted into the U.S. army.
Muhammad Ali
When an athlete goes above and beyond the rules to act with honesty and fairness, even when it could cost them a win, it is called…
Good sportsmanship
In 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned this country from international sports competitions for four years due to a state-sponsored doping scheme.
Russia
This Olympic athlete became the first woman to win back-to-back all-around gymnastics gold medals in over 50 years.
Simone Biles
This legendary hockey player was known not only for his record-breaking point totals but also for his exceptional sportsmanship, earning him the Lady Byng Trophy five times.
Wayne Gretzky
This former NHL player was banned for life in 1948 for his involvement in a gambling scandal, making him the only player permanently barred from the league.
Billy Taylor
This all-time MLB great was banned from baseball for betting on games while managing the Cincinnati Reds.
Pete Rose
This Edmonton Oiler defied medical expectations by recovering from a severe knee injury in record time, choosing an intensive, unconventional rehab process instead of surgery to return to the game faster.
Connor McDavid
This cyclist was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being exposed for using performance-enhancing drugs in one of the biggest doping scandals in sports history.
Lance Armstrong