If an olympic medal winner admits to cheating years later, will they give the medal to the next in line?

Question

If an olympic medal winner cheated by lying about their age or doping and they admit it years later, would they award the medal to the next in line? Has this ever happened? Would the country be punished for allowing them to lie? Has this ever happened?

Answer 1

Marion Jones went to jail for that and the poor girls that ran with her lost their medals I would presume those that got silver became gold medalists.

Answer 2

i believe yes. ben riach of austria won the slalom in 2002 after the olympics.

Answer 3

no it wouldn't even happen cause they test them for drugs so many times that its impossible to cheat the system.

Answer 4

Marion Jones

Answer 5

I am curious about this as well. I know that when it is a judging issue then they are award the medal to the next person/team (ex. 2000 pairs ice skating where the medal originally went to Russia but they held another ceremony and awarded another gold to Canada).

In the 2000 Olympics Andreea Mădălina Răducan of Romania won the Gold Medal in the women's all around but tested positive for a banned substance and had her Gold Medal stripped and Simona Amanar of Romania was awarded the Gold. On the other hand Yang Yun of China just admitted that she was only 14 when she won her bronze medal at the games. I am not sure whether they awarded the 4th place finisher the Bronze medal. Personally, I think that they should considering she followed the rules established by the IOc.