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    Which athletes were sent home in disgrace?

    By Pauline Vu | Fourth-Place Medal – Thu, 9 Aug, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

    Nick DelpopoloNo Olympics is complete without certain elements: glorious victories, stunning upsets, heartbreaking losses…

    And athletes kicked out of the Games. These Olympics saw the dismissal of several competitors, with the use of performance-enhancing drugs as the main culprit. People were also kicked out for being openly racist, tweeting inappropriate things, purposely trying to lose, and, in the case of one athlete, getting so drunk in public that he looked like he wet himself.

    Click on the links below to see what infractions the following athletes committed that had them packing up early:

    Victoria Baranova
    Nick D'Arcy
    Kyung Eun Jung
    Tameka Williams
    Kenrick Monk
    Alex Schwazer
    Xiaoli Wang
    Gijs van Hoecke
    Ivan Tsikhan
    Yang Yu
    Dimitrios Chondrokoukis
    Amine Laalou
    Greysia Polii
    Diego Palomeque
    Jung Eun Ha
    Hysen Pulaku
    Ha Na Kim
    Nicholas Delpopolo
    Michel Morganella
    Paraskevi Papachristou
    Meiliana Jauhari
    Luiza Galiulina
    Min Jung Kim

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