26. In 1980, Sharron Davies won a silver medal at the Moscow Olympics. In what event was this?
From Quiz Silver Girl
Answer:
400-metre individual medley
The 400-metre individual medley was always one of Sharron's strongest events, and indeed she held the Commonwealth Record for 18 years, but that was attained in a competition from which East Germany was excluded. In the 1980 Moscow Olympics final she found herself up against three East German swimmers, plus two Poles, a Russian and a Bulgarian. The eventual winner, the East German Petra Schneider, was 10 seconds faster than Sharron, but following the reunification of Germany in the 1990s she confessed to having been given various drugs to improve her performance.
Shockingly, despite overwhelming evidence of doping, the International Olympic Committee refused to rescind the medals of the East German athletes; and numerous discredited East German medals remained in the record books.