Anti-dopping

The anti-doping control was also present for the first time in Olympic history . And the first case came from a country usually averse to this type of device : Sweden. Hans -Gunnar Liljenvall drank beyond measure and was caught with a quantity of unacceptable alcohol in his blood. Liljenvall and all the Swedish team ended up disqualified from the race Pentathlon , which had won the bronze medal .