To be an Olympic champion, you gotta be the best, which means being number one.

But to be number one on this show, well that means you're probably kind of the worst,

the most tragic, or the most scandalous.

So while the best of the best go for the gold during the Olympic Games, we're counting

down the crimes and scandals that have rocked the world's most prestigious sports event.

Right now, only I know what's number one this week, and I can tell you, it's sadly a deadly

tarnish on Olympic history.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkast.

I'm Ash, and I'm Alena.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes all picked by the Parkast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten Olympic crimes and scandals.

Alena and I were actually just talking about the Olympics the other day, we weren't

really.

And we were saying that even if you don't think that you're a huge fan of the Olympics,

you absolutely turn into one when the season hits and it's like all over TV, personally

I always find myself sitting there for way longer than I intended, like screaming and

rooting for our peeps.

It happens every time, probably I'm going to go and say like maybe eight out of ten times,

there's going to be some kind of crazy scandal associated with it, and you're just interested

to find out like who that's going to be, what that's going to be.

Oh yeah, it's the drums that we're really looking for, be it the competition drama, maybe

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