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Old adage - if you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin' - put to test in series of strange plays

This is a column by Shireen Ahmed, who writes opinion for CBC Sports. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.

For as long as there has been sport, there has been cheating. In fact, legend tells us that in ancient Greece, athletes would promise Zeus they wouldn't cheat. Athletes agreed to play fairly or face the possibility of fines or having statues erected to remind the community of the sin they committed. 

Governing bodies of sports have failed to eradicate cheating from races, matches, tournaments and playoffs, perhaps proving true the words of J. Weston Phippen: "Cheating, like competition, is human nature."

Athletes routinely submit to urine tests to ensure that they aren't doping. And even when they aren't, the complicated process can sometimes create misunderstandings that destroy their experiences and cost them medals. At the 1995 Pan Am Games in Argentina, Canadian rower Silken Laumann was stripped of her gold medal for an apparent doping infraction. It turned out she simply took the wrong type of the antihistamine medication Benedryl, despite consulting physicians, but her appeal was denied.

WATCH: Chess world rocked by cheating allegation:

On a different note, the past couple of weeks have presented some instances of cheating that border on the bizarre, and made slightly comical by being in competitions some might call "sports adjacent."

Last month, Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was stunned when he was beaten by 19-year-old American Hans Neimann. Carlsen accused the teen of cheating, based mostly on the fact that Neimann's body language was too relaxed and that the win seemed "effortless."

Neimann admitted that, as a younger teen, he had cheated in online matches

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