Israel disqualifies its own Olympic bobsleigh team for lying to officials (www.timesofisrael.com)

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Israeli Olympic officials have disqualified their own bobsleigh team from participating in the final day of competition at the Milan 2026 Winter Olympics after one of its athletes falsely claimed illness

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[-] sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

My understanding is they got caught trying to pretend one of the team was unwell so they could swap a team member. They got caught and "disqualified" themselves. Either way they tried cheating and "withdrew" before being disqualified

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