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Almost every sport has a cheating scandal. At one point or another, a person or a group of people have tried (and sometimes succeeded) to play the system and get ahead of others. Sometimes it’s for money, sometimes it’s for glory, but one thing is always true: it’s unfair to those who play by the rules.

There are three cheating scandals unfolding right now in three different sports: chess, fishing and poker, and each could be the worst cheating scandal in the history of their individual sports.

The largest chess website, chess.com, announced on Tuesday that an internal investigation concluded that 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Niemann cheated in more than 100 games on its site.

At the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championships on the shores of Lake Erie on Saturday, Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan were found to have loaded their fish’s bellies with weights so they could be named Team of the Year and win $ 30,000 in prizes.

In poker, wild allegations have been thrown about Robbi Jade Lew’s unthinkable $109,000 bluff in what ended up being a $269,000 pot. Lew is accused of cheating, and while she returned the money she won, she did not admit to being cheated, and even accused the guy from whom she won the money of intimidating her in a dark corridor.

Fishing, chess and poker have their moments now, but what are the biggest cheating scandals in other sports? Almost every sport has a cheating scandal, and you can read about the worst ones here.

Football: Spygate, courtesy of the Patriots

The NFL has had a lot of cheating scandals in the last 15-20 years, so there are a lot to choose from. Should it have been Bountygate, which wasn’t so much cheating as it was dangerously incentivized? Should it be Deflategate, which was an alleged effort to cheat football by using the game’s actual equipment on the field? Or Spygate, the video recording of another team’s signals?

In the end, Spygate was the first, and is still the one that is discussed the most, complete with exaggerated gasping and pearl clutching. During the 2007 season, the New England Patriots filmed the New York Jets’ defensive signals from their own sideline during a game, which commissioner Roger Goodell ruled as intentional cheating. To see also : 4 Hawkeyes named to preseason All-America by Athlon Sports. Coach Bill Belichick was fined, the team was fined, and they lost the first draft pick. All the tapes and notes from those videotaped sessions were destroyed, which left many more questions that will probably never be answered.

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Baseball: Astros stealing signs to win a World Series

You can say what you want about individuals who have taken steroids and never been caught, but when it comes to coordinated cheating, the biggest scandal in baseball is the 2017 Houston Astros stealing signs using ballpark cameras and communicating with the bangs of a garbage can lid. The team did this during the 2017 and 2018 seasons, including the 2017 playoffs and their World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In the end, the players who carried out this scheme were not punished thanks to an immunity agreement with MLB, but GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch were fired and subsequently suspended from baseball for the 2020 season. This may interest you : The Brooklyn Nets must play tough with Kevin Durant’s preferred destinations, the Miami Heat or the Phoenix Suns. Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who served as Hinch’s bench coach during the cheating seasons, was also suspended for the 2020 season, and the Red Sox parted ways with him . Hinch and Cora have since returned to managing in the majors, with Hinch managing the Detrpot Tigers and Cora returning to his job with the Red Sox.

The Houston Astros won the 2017 World Series, but later it was discovered that they illegally stole signs and communicated them to batters using the bangs of a trash can lid throughout the 2017 season and the postseason. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

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Basketball: Tim Donaghy’s match-fixing scandal

In 2007, referee Tim Donaghy was arrested on suspicion of betting on hundreds of basketball games, including those he officiated, and was accused of fixing games, or making calls that affected the outcome of the games. games to benefit himself and others. Read also : Making video games helps Montgomery Public Schools students learn confidence and teamwork. Donaghy maintained that he only used his knowledge of the game to place bets, but he was convicted on federal charges and sentenced to two years in prison.

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Soccer: Serie A’s Calciopoli

Calciopoli was a major scandal in the Italian football league, Serie A. The GM of Juventus Luciano Moggi was caught on an interception that pressured the referees to favor certain clubs with their calls, and the scandal has finished in AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio. The consequences were major. Every team involved was punished in some way, mostly by point deductions and exclusion from certain events, but Juventus had the biggest punishment. They were relegated to Serie B, deducted nine points, stripped of the 2004–05 Serie A title, and relegated to the bottom of the table in 2005–06. Moggi, who has always maintained his innocence, resigned from his post, as did the president of the Italian football federation Franco Carraro and the vice president Innocenzo Mazzini. Moggi was also banned for life from the sport.

Cycling: Lance Armstrong’s doping

This is an easy one. Lance Armstrong took performance-enhancing drugs for years, successfully hid it (at least for a while), and won the Tour de France seven times. When his doping came to light, Armstrong’s trophies were taken back, his foundation, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, took a big hit (and was eventually renamed the Livestrong Foundation), and he was disgraced.

Boxing: Luis Resto’s missing pads

In 1983, undefeated junior middleweight Billy Collins Jr. took the young Luis Resto to Madison Square Garden, and the result was amazing. Resto, known as a light puncher, beat the ever-loving shit out of Collins, stabbing his eyes until they were closed. The punches tore out one of Collins’ irises, resulting in blurred vision that ended his boxing career.

When Collins’ father, who was also his trainer, shook Resto’s hand at the end of the match, he felt that the boxing gloves were thin. He demanded that the gloves be impounded, and an investigation showed that an ounce of padding was removed from each and replaced with plaster, which Resto finally admitted in 2007. Resto was convicted of assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and conspiracy and conspiracy. he spent two and a half years in prison. As for Collins, he died in a car accident in 1984, and his family believes that the loss of his livelihood contributed to a breakdown in his mental state.

MMA: Take your pick

A lot of MMA fighters have been caught for doping, to the point that picking one is extremely difficult. In 2000, Josh Barnett took on Randy Couture to become the youngest heavyweight champion in UFC history, only to test positive for a banned substance and be stripped of the title. Royce Gracie, one of the most important figures in the history of MMA, tested positive after his rematch in 2007 with Kazushi Sakuraba. Anderson Silva, who is one of the best MMA fighters of all time, tested positive. Nick Diaz. Cris Cyborg. Chael Sonnen. Jon Jones tested positive a while ago. In an individual sport like MMA, doping is the main way to cheat, but it is not a rare case.

Olympics: Russia’s coordinated doping

Doping in sports is often a decision of a single athlete (and possibly his support team), but Russia’s doping stands out because it is widespread and state-sponsored. Between 2002 and 2016, a total of 43 Olympic medals were won by Russia, in sports ranging from shooting, weightlifting and cross-country skiing. More than 150 Russian athletes have been caught doping, more than any other country in the world by far. In 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from all sporting events for four years (which has since been reduced to two years), a ban that included the Olympics. Russian athletes have competed in the Olympics since then, but under a neutral flag with the name “Russian Olympic Committee”, or ROC.

Figure Skating: France and Russia’s deal for pairs gold

The 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City were rocked by a scandal in pairs of figure skating. In the long program, Canadian Jamie Salé and David Pelletier performed a beautiful and moving skate that was almost technically perfect. Russia’s Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze skated almost even, but there was an obvious technical error on a skill. Everyone was sure Canada had the gold medal wrapped up, but Russia was stunningly awarded the gold while Canada took the silver.

That result seemed so obviously incorrect that an investigation was launched, and French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne soon admitted that the competition was fixed and that she had been pressured by the head of France’s national skating federation to give the Russian couple a favorable score. what, in exchange for a favorable score for the French couple of ice dancing. She and the head of the French skating federation were suspended for three years, and the award ceremony was repeated for the first time in history. Salé and Pelletier were awarded the joint gold with the Russians. This scandal led to the introduction of a new scoring system in figure skating.

Canadian pairs figure skaters David Pelletier (back R) and Jamie Sale (front R) stand with their gold medals for their performance almost a week earlier in which Russian rivals Yelena Berezhneya (front L) and Anton Sikharulidze (back L) were awarded the prize. of gold in a controversial judging decision, on February 17, 2002. The IOC decided to award a second gold medal to the Canadians after an investigation into the competition’s judging revealed wrongdoing. (Via Reuters)

Paralympics: Spain’s non-disabled basketball team

The Spanish Paralympic basketball team with intellectual disabilities won gold at the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, but their team was not what they seemed to be. An undercover journalist revealed shortly after winning the gold that almost none of the players have disabilities. It turns out that the required IQ tests were not carried out by the Spanish Paralympic Committee, and not only 10 of the 12 basketball players did not have intellectual disabilities, a number of other Spanish gold medalists were not. The team was stripped of its gold medals, and all events for athletes with intellectual disabilities were suspended for several years.

Marathon: Rosie Ruiz’s subway ride

Rosie Ruiz has cheated in two major marathons: the New York Marathon and the Boston Marathon. At the 1980 New York City Marathon, Ruiz started with the others, but took a subway ride to the finish line, where he slipped into the injury tent and was declared finished. in 11th That qualified her for the Boston Marathon, where she finished with the best female time in the race and the third fastest in any marathon in history. The organizers and runners of the Boston Marathon were immediately suspicious for a number of reasons, including that no one remembered seeing them during the race. Two witnesses came forward to say they saw Ruiz enter the race through a crowd of spectators about a half mile from the finish. Ruiz’s cheating in Boston led to the discovery of her subway ride in New York, and she was retroactively disqualified from both races.

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