Chess was the last sport to see himself before the media magnifying glass for the alleged cheating that Hans Niemann could have committed according to the world champion. Carlsen continues to maintain that the American cheated to beat him in the Sinquefield Cup on September 5. This accusation is not the first to take place in the world of chess. But it is not the first nor will it be the last case in which there are accusations of this type and sometimes proven.
The hand of God
Everyone recognizes one of the most famous images in the history of sports. It was the 51st minute of the quarterfinal match of the World Cup in Mexico 86, which had England and Argentina as protagonists when after a shot by Jorge Valdano bounced off an English defender, caused the ball to go straight to Maradona’s position.
The Argentine 10 was alone in front of the goalkeeper and with a very pumped ball that ‘Fluff’ could not reach with his head, it was there when, with the help of his left hand, he would introduce the ball into the British goal. “It has been a bit with the head and a bit with the hand of God”, and from that moment on, this controversial and controversial goal was renamed ‘The Hand of God’.
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Armstrong’s Seven Tours
One of the most scandalous cases in living memory was that of Lance Armstronsg. Recognized by all as one of the best cyclists of all time after achieving seven Tours in a row between 1999 and 2005, the American would be involved in an ongoing doping plot uncovered in 2012 and in which he was accused of having had blood transfusions and using substances such as EPO, growth hormones, cortisone, steroids and testosterone.
This case was definitively uncovered in 2012, being requested by the USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) the withdrawal of its seven Tours. Four months after being stripped of all his triumphs (including an Olympic medal and diploma), the American cyclist would publicly acknowledge in an interview in 2013 having continuously doped during his seven Tours.
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Harding and Kerrigan
In 1994, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, top rivals in the figure skating scene Between the 80s and 90s, they were involved in another of the most unpleasant cases due to the circumstances in which it occurred. Harding’s husband, Jeff Gillooly, ordered an outsider to seriously injure Kerrigan, which took place on January 6, 1994. The skater was surprised by the man hired by Gillooly, hitting Kerrigan’s leg, so that Harding could win the game to be in the 1994 Winter Olympics.
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Finally, the two came after Kerrigan’s recovery. She this one achieved the silver medal while Harding finished eighth. Barely a month after the events, Gilloly accepted a guilty plea in exchange for his testimony. against Harding. The skater was banned for life in addition to having to pay a million dollars to her rival. Meanwhile, her husband and the two people involved, they were also sentenced to prison terms and social work.
Spanish wheelchair basketball team
Another embarrassing case took place at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games when the Spanish basketball team won in ten of twelve of his matches, taking the gold. It was later discovered that ten of the twelve players did not have any type of intellectual disability and that the medal was totally fraudulent. In fact, some of the players played in the EBA League becoming one of the biggest scandals of Spanish sport. Logically, they were stripped of their medals as Olympic champions.
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Renault at the 2008 Singapore GP
The 2008 Singapore Grand Prix arrived, the first time that a premier class race was held at night and under artificial light. Fernando Alonso and Nelsinho Piquet (son of Nelson Piquet Sr) were racing for the Renault team and, After a complicated Saturday for the Asturian, in which he would finish the classification in 15th place and the Brazilian Piquet would do it from a further back, Briatore had a plan.
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This would consist of Piquet crashing into the wall at turn 17, where there was no escape and the safety car was guaranteed. The strategy was Fernando Alonso entering the pit-lane on lap 12 (too early) and Piquet doing his job on the next one. In this way, Alonso was clearly benefited and in which he emerged the winner. When the case was uncovered, after the complaint by Piquet and his father, the team manager, Flavio Briatore was close to being banned for life, a decision that was finally lifted by a French court. For its part, the French team spent two years expelled from the ‘Great Circus’ as a sanction.
Mike Tyson and his ‘tricks’
The American boxer and one of the most mediatic even today, after 17 years retired as a professional, also had a dark episode in his boxing career. In 2000, he tested positive for marijuana in anti-doping controls. having to pay a fine of 200,000 dollars. Along with this, in statements to the media two years ago, he confessed to his ‘trick’ so as not to be caught. He carried a plastic penis that he filled with clean urine when it was his turn to do routine checkups. In addition, the boxer also pointed out that he used urine from his wife or son on certain occasions.
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The speed of David Robertson
Despite being a sport that is not usually news due to episodes that tarnish the competition, it is also not free from the odd reprehensible and unsportsmanlike fact. In this case the culprit of the event was David Robertson. In 1985 and before the British, the golfer managed to fool everyone time after time. Her trick on him? Get to the green before the rest of the competitors and advance the ball considerable distances to increase your chances of pocketing the ball. After 14 holes using the same method, his irregularities came to light and he was disqualified. As a consequence, he was banned from playing for the next 30 years.
Roberto Rojas and the hidden blade
The Chilean exporter, Roberto ‘el Cóndor’ Rojas committed another of these unsportsmanlike episodes. In his case, a pretty twisted one. In 1989, the goalkeeper, in a key match for his national team’s qualification for the 90′ World Cup in Italy, had one of the most bizarre ideas on the pitch. The game was entering its last half hour of play when Brazil led the Maracana 1-0, at that moment a flare was thrown onto the grass and Roberto Rojas fell to the ground. The general perception was the same and more logical: he hit the goalkeeper. Nothing could be further from the truth. The goalkeeper had a knife in his glove to slash his face when the time was right. What he was looking for with this was the disqualification of Brazil from the match and the Chilean victory, with the pass to the World Cup included.
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His companions, indignant, left the lawn, but later the reality of the events was discovered thanks to a cameraman who managed to capture the moment of the launch of the flare. This meant the Chilean goalkeeper a disqualifying sanction for life in any field of football. Finally in the year 2000 the punishment was lifted and since then he can practice any profession related to the beautiful sport.
