Cheating:as Old as Sport Itself?

Beginning of article

From 'Bloodgate' to 'Crashgate', it's been a scurrilous year. But scandal is nothing new to the noble arts - and many of our greatest heroes have slipped into the shady world of chicanery, rule-bending and rumour. Oh yes, even WG Grace...

Donald Crowhurst

In the history of sporting cheats there has surely never been a plot as audacious or as tragic as that conceived by Donald Crowhurst. An amateur sailor who tried to convince everyone that he had circumnavigated the globe, his deception ended in insanity and, it is presumed, suicide.

Crowhurst was a struggling businessman desperate to finance his project to develop a radio direction-finding navigational …