Jury of Appeals Disqualifies Onishchenko

Title: Jury of Appeals Disqualifies Onishchenko
Subject: Olympic Games (21st : 1976 : Montreal, Canada); Candids
Description: Modern pentathlete Boris Grigoryevich Onishchenko (Soviet Union) sits quietly after the Jury of Appeals' decision was made that he was disqualified from the Olympic event after his epee was found to have been tampered with.

Caption on obverse:
"Montreal, July 19--ONISCHENKO OUT OF GAMES--Boris Onischenko, a modern pentathlonist from Russia, sits quietly after a Jury of Appeals ruled Monday he was disqualified from the Olympics because his sword had been tampered with."
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Date: July 19, 1976
Temporal Coverage: 1970s
Contributor: Associated Press (Publisher)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: George Masin Collection
Format: 20.6 x 27.8 cm
Language: English
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2020.11.143
Spatial Coverage: Canada; Montreal
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by George Masin; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles