What where the consequences for breaching the rules of the ancient Olympic Games?

The cheater, their trainer, and sometimes the city the cheater was from were fined. With this money statues of Zeus were erected, with the name of the cheating athlete inscribed on it, along the tunnels that led to the Olympic Stadium. History has recorded that the first cheater of the Olympics to be a boxer named Eupolis. He bribed three opponents to allow him to win his matches. His fine was the money needed to build six bronze statues of Zeus.

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