Doping at the Olympic Games following year's Games. In a few cases the IOC has reversed earlier rulings that stripped athletes of medals. In the case of Rick DeMont, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has recognized his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics in 2001, but only the IOC has the power to restore his medal, and it has as of 2017 refused to do so. Though no athletes were caught doping at the 1980 Summer Olympics, it has been claimed that athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs for which tests had not been yet developed. A 1989 report by
Colombia at the Olympics Colombia's most successful Olympic performances have been in weightlifting and cycling, with 6 medals, 2 gold in each. Colombia at the Olympics Colombia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1932, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one edition of the Summer Olympic Games since then, missing only the 1952 Games. Colombian athletes have won a total of 28 Olympic medals (five gold, nine silver and fourteen bronze) in eight different sports, with weightlifting and cycling as the most successful ones. The Colombian Olympic Committee was created in 1936 and recognised by the International Olympic Committee in