Table Tennis at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games:

The men’s singles was expected to come down to the last two Chinese world champions, Kong Linghui, known as King Kong, and the 1996 gold medalist, Liu Guoliang and 1999 World Champion. Liu had failed two doping tests for testosterone after the 1999 World Championships, but was reinstated for the Sydney Olympics. The International Table Tennis Federation ( ITTF) cleared Liu's name after a three-month-long investigation showed no evidence for exogenous origin of epitestosterone in Liu's samples and declared that there was no doping offense. In the semi-finals Liu went out to the 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner in straight games. That set up the final between Kong and Waldner. They split the first four games but Kong raced ahead 10-1 in the final. Waldner fought back, but Kong finished strongly, winning the gold medal in five games.