Ota Zaremba
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Ota Zaremba is a Czechoslovak weightlifter, Olympic champion and world champion. He won gold medal in the heavyweight I class at the 1980 Summer Olympics
in Moscow
.
After he ended his career, Zaremba admitted he used doping
throughout his career with the acknowledgment of the sport officials and coaches. His statement confirmed that many sportspeople from the communist bloc of the Cold War used doping.
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
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After he ended his career, Zaremba admitted he used doping
Doping
Doping is generally the practice of adding impurities to something.* Doping is a term for the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport or blood doping, often to improve athletic performance....
throughout his career with the acknowledgment of the sport officials and coaches. His statement confirmed that many sportspeople from the communist bloc of the Cold War used doping.