OM DENNE EPISODE
What actually counts as cheating in sport?
We kick things off with a round-up of the week's sports news.
We get into:
Tigst Assefa running 2:11:04 at the Berlin Marathon, despite being inside world record pace before struggling with cramp late in the race.
Guye Adola winning the men's race in 2:02:50, with three men finishing under 2:04.
Shubman Gill producing an unbelievable ODI innings against the West Indies, scoring 223 from 133 balls* and reaching 200 from just 117 deliveries, the fastest ODI double century ever.
India somehow chasing down 406 with 39 balls remaining, despite the West Indies having three different centurions in their innings.
George Russell winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, plus the fallout from the Lando Norris and Franco Colapinto collision.
And Novak Djokovic returning to the China Open for the first time in 11 years.
Then we get into the main topic.
Where do you actually draw the line on cheating?
We start with Manchester City after an independent Premier League commission found the club guilty of serious financial rule breaches across nine seasons.
We try to break down what City were actually found guilty of in normal terms, how sponsorship money and owner funding work, why the difference matters under football's financial rules, and how making revenue look higher or costs look lower could give a club more room to spend.
But if none of that actually happens on the football pitch, is it still cheating?
From there, we go through some of the biggest cheating scandals in sport and see whether our definition changes depending on what someone has actually done.
There's Lance Armstrong, his seven Tour de France wins and the doping system that eventually saw him stripped of all seven titles and banned from cycling for life.
We look at Sandpapergate, when Cameron Bancroft was caught using sandpaper to alter the cricket ball, and the involvement of Steve Smith and David Warner that resulted in major bans for all three players.
Then there's the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, where technology was used to work out what pitches were coming and relay that information to their hitters during their 2017 World Series-winning season.
We also get into F1's infamous Crashgate, when Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to help Renault teammate Fernando Alonso, who went on to win the race without apparently knowing what had been planned.
And finally, Bloodgate, when Harlequins used fake blood to manufacture an injury and take advantage of rugby's blood substitution rules.
All completely different examples of cheating, but all of them raise slightly different questions about where the line actually is.
Is deliberately breaking any rule cheating?
Does there need to be deception involved?
What if you break a rule on purpose but accept the punishment?
And why do we call some things cheating, while other deliberate rule breaking gets called gamesmanship?
Professional fouls, tactical penalties, time wasting, exploiting loopholes. At what point does doing whatever you can to win actually make you a cheat?
We put it to the guests and see where everyone draws their own line.
Then we finish things off with Grinds My Gears and some Hot Takes from this week's guests.
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