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Innovative Ways People Have Allegedly Cheated In Sports

Whoever said cheaters never win hasn’t been paying much attention to competitive sports. Cheaters may not always win, but plenty of winners cheat. And what matters to us is that they’re doing it in creative, interesting ways. Steroids? Boring and overdone. Stop that. Throwing games to win bets? Yawn. Nothing is fun about losing on purpose. Make up a fake high school to have a football team, manage to get that BSHS team televised on ESPN, and have your 20-something-year-old “students” lose to actual high schoolers? Okay, okay, we’re listening. 

Here are 10 times people may or may not have broken the rules to get ahead in sports. Hey, you gotta reward innovative strategy. Some of us are born with brawn, and some people are born with a twisted imagination of how to win athletic competitions. We even cheated ourselves by including one that wasn’t really cheating (even though the team did get punished for it so maybe it is). 

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CRACKED 20 BASEBALL Groundskeeper Emil Boussard moved Cleveland's portable fences as far as 15 feet when Babe Ruth visited. His son was also a groundskeeper who would supposedly freeze balls, raise baselines, and soak the area around first base.

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CRACKED RUGBY In what is now known as bloodgate, a fake blood capsule (from a joke shop) was given to Tom Williams to fake an injury so that the Harlequins could get a better player on to the pitch during the 2009 European Cup quarter-final.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: The Guardian

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CRACKED 53 26 4 5 2 54 64 S FOOTBALL Bishop Sycamore High School didn't exist, but their football team did. With an incredibly overworked, post-high school team, one of their games was even televised on ESPN.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: New York Times

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CRACKED MARATHON Rosie Ruiz won the 1980 Boston Marathon by sneaking in a mile before the finish line. Supposedly she placed first by accident, rejoining the race without realizing no other woman had placed yet.

Source: New York Times

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CRACKED FORMULA 1 At the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, Nelson Piquet Jr. allegedly intentionally crashed into the wall to give his teammate Fernando Alonso an advantage, winning him the race.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: ESPN 

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CRACKED BASEBALL In the 2017 season, Houston Astros players in the dugout supposedly stole signs by watching a monitor and banging on trash cans to warn the batter of the catcher's signs.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: New York Times

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CRACKED FISHING Jake Runyan and Chase Cominsky won a recent fishing tournament, but a viral videeo appears to show the officials inspecting their fish and discovering they were stuffed with lead weights and other types of fish fillets.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: NPR

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CRACKED HORSE RACING In 1990, Jockey Sylvester Carmouche was accused of hiding out in the thick fog and jumping back in towards the end of the race, placing first despite being a 23-to-1 long shot.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: The Guardian

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CRACKED FENCING Boris Onischenko was disqualified from the 1976 Summer Olympics after it was discovered that he had an illegally modified épée, wired so he could activate a switch to register a hit.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: The Guardian

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CRACKED SOCCER The masseur of a Brazilian football club ran onto the field and blocked two goals. Probably not actually cheating since it doesen't seem like the team was in on it, but we had to mention it for creativity.

Photo: Shutterstock, Source: Reuters

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