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The 7 Ballsiest Sports Cheats Ever | Cracked.com

Actually, none of these even came close. The ballsiest cheater of all got away with it - in the final of the men's Olympic basketball game at Munich in 1972. Without a doubt, the ballsiest was FIBA Secretary-General Renato William Jones of Italy, who by FIBA rules had no authority over in-game officiating decisions, who ordered that the game clock be reset to 0:03 to give the Soviet team a third chance to score the winning points. He was simply determined that the final three seconds of the game would be played over and over and over like Groundhog day until the Soviet Union won.

You wonder how he could have been so ballsy? He knew he could do any damn thing he wanted because the five-member review panel of the International Basketball Federation included three Communist Bloc guys whose only choice (besides a lifelong vacation in the Gulag) was to support him, no matter what he did. That they did, despite the testimony of the referee, the timekeeper, and the scorekeeper who contradicted him at the hearing! I mean it quite literally when I say that if he had pulled out a gun and shot every single member of the American team, then handed the gold medal to the USSR, the review panel would have upheld his decision on a 3-2 vote.

(Note that there was an Italian member of the panel, and he voted to overturn his countryman's improper decision.)