The most devious cheat in Olympic Games history? | Strangest Moments
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Boris Onischenko is arguably the most devious cheat in Olympic Games history. This is the story of how he took deception in fencing to new levels.
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The most devious cheat in Olympic history probably hasn't been caught.
Hugh Nixon that might be true
Simon Deelstra I thought you two had the same profile xd..
Pamkor AVv haha same
At first I thought he is answering himself
I thought that too.
I'm a fencer. This is why we now inspect equipment before tournaments.
They inspect equipment because you're a fencer? You must be one shady character.
no, they inspect everyone's weapons, specifically inside the bell guard to check for any such devices which can sabotage the bout.
And for opaque tape over the wires (CLEAR tape is ok).
Jared Bowhay-Pringle I'm an armourer, every fencer's equipment is checked before any major meet. The referee's can also disqualify any piece of the equipment, at any time.
Di I've head the story from the Olympic level armourer who taught me. I doubt the device portrayed in the film was that bulky, or obvious.
I love the sense of humor...stories of estranged wires sticking out of his meter cannot be confirmed
Yeah we saw the video , don't need to repeat it
Why must beekeepers fight?
To achieve power in the opponent's bee farm
Lmao
To show, who can evade the most stings
XD
for glory and for honor. and also his bees went into the orchard for my bees.
I'm sorry but the reenactment where the volleyball team threw a volleyball at him was effing hilarious 😂
As someone who’s fenced most of my life, this is not the only time someone tried to cheat. A few years ago someone got a black card (disqualification) for there French grip being bent a certain way. The fencer was told the day before by the refs it was to bent, so the refs had bent it back. But, that night they had bent it back. Needles to say, don’t cheat.
Yep...altering the cant after it's gone through control is a black card.
I don't get why he did it. Wouldn't people obviously see it didn't hit and question it?
chocolatepain the video portrayal shows it missing by a foot, to easily show it to viewers. In reality, near hits happen in milimeters or less. I've had times where I've made contact but no hit registers. You can't tell by watching, you have to rely on the machine.
By the rules today, the hit has to be more than 750g. As in, with the epee pointing up, if you place a 750g weight on the point, there has to be no hit registered.
So it can happen that the blade literally just touches the opponent and there's no hit. It's those situations that a cheater would use their button to make the machine register a hit.
Experienced fencers would know though if they've hit or were hit. Last week, in a game, I was wondering why I wouldn't score in spite of feeling it. In the end, the wire to the machine was faulty.
it all happens stupid fast like almost impossible to actually see bare eyed
@@cykasucc6634 not in epee
He did it because the KGB made him...back in those days, you did what the KGB wanted unless you wanted an all expenses paid relocation to a gulag in Siberia.
I remember hearing that he finally got tired of it and deliberately triggered the light when he was obviously out of distance so he'd get caught and be able to stop, but I'm not sure how accurate that may be.
Most people are unaware It was actually a little boy dying from brain cancer who spotted he was cheating. Most reports just say the British objected.
The most devious cheat in the history of the Olympics was robbing Yuna Kim of her rightful second gold medal in Sochi
Roy Jones Jr. In Seoul. :/ Count-A-Punch recorder scored the rounds 20-3, 30-15 and 36-14 in Rjj's favor, but the Judges gave the Korean Park gold. His opponent didn't celebrate, hung his head in shame, and raised Rjj's hand on the podium.
I smell a koreaboo...
For me, the most devious was in Olympics 2012 whr Shin Alam was robbed of her medal
I was just about to comment that. Everybody with FS rules knowledge knows that.
When I think of Olympic BS, I think of the South Korean boxing (Roy Jones Jr. getting robbed) or the 1972 US/Soviet basketball game. And possibly an underage Chinese girl's gymnastics team in 2008.
He clearly isn't very devious if he was caught so easily LOL
He nearly WASN'T caught. The officials initially did not take the accusation of cheating very seriously, but asked to inspect the weapon. Their suspicion was really only aroused when they noticed he tried to switch weapons. If he hadn't done that they might not have made a very thorough inspection.
in my personal opinion, it was the robbery of yuna kim at sochi, but isu nor the olympic committee will ever admit that :/
Sabina R. They won't. It was in sochi rusia, prob if there is male rusian skater they will get gold to, beat yuzuru
HAHAHA greatest cheater being the olympic committee (and russia) so true. yuna was robbed and it's hella obvious especially to those who've been skating and those who've been watching skating for a long time.
@@singingpinkclover It was obvious even to me who has extremely minimal knowledge of FS.
Not as bad as roy Jones jr getting robbed
Agreed
I mostly love how comically huge the depiction of his cheating device is in this video. Very nice vid!
I am not sure that is so comically huge, for 1986.
@@cscoetzee Well, even back then all he had to do to get his touch to register is shorting the two wires coming in where the guard meets the grip. Making a slight cut in the insulation and pressing them together would be enough.
@@cscoetzee its 1976
It was one button on that circuit board. They all had that board in them.
@@Na-if5ze I'm not sure if you're serious, but just in case: Epees haven't really changed much since they became electric in 1936.
You have two wires running down the blade, which form a circuit when the tip is depressed. In the guard, the wires connect to two of the holes in the socket, while the third is connected to the guard to ground it.
The 'cheating device' would have consisted of small cuts being made in the wires' insulation where they come into the guard from the blade, and then arranging them in such a way that pressing your thumb on them would touch them together, completing the circuit and registering a hit. If the wires cross accidentally, you'll get hits registering when you're nowhere near the opponent, which is what happened in this case.
My boy was just practicing social distancing!
Always wondered why they went with the switch in the guard route. As he really needed was something conductive attached to the thumb of the glove. He could've reached out with it and shorted across the A and B lines at the socket. All attention would be on the weapon, and I doubt anyone would think to check his glove.
Ok but can we talk about how good the camera quality is for 1968? 1:06
They spend a lot of money on the cameras
Its called digital enhancing. Meaning they clean up the dirty film of specks, poor colour quality and squiggles and clean to make it so brand new.
If it was recorded on film, not magnetic tape, it can be scanned in HD.
There is a *lot* more detail in film than people realise these days.
Analog footage has effectively infinite resolution, at least to the atomic level.
the most approprtiate sentence was at the end section " he was last seen....."
lol
This guy is actually a very good friend of my dad. From his account, KGB approached him before the 1976 Olympics and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. His medals were eventually reinstated by the Olympic committee years later. And I can confirm that he definitely never drove a cab lol.
Well what is he doing now? Is he still alive? Must be pretty old.
Yeah, he's alive and well. 80 years old I believe, but still runs 5k every day from what I hear. He never really left sports even after the 1976 Olympics incident. He worked as one of the directors at the Dynamo stadium in Kiev for many years until retirement, and remained very close to the USSR and then the Ukrainian athletic scene in general.
This is pretty sad that you call a Soviet friend specially that you from Ukraine what a shame by the way how is Ukraine. Hi. Hi. Hi.
Cool story, bro.
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Great acting from the Leon Paul Fencing centre😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 who is the actor??
Thank you for the subtitles on each videos
The most devious cheat in Olympic History was in Sochi 2014 when the judges took Yuna Kim gold medal and gave it to Sotnikova
epee it's not fencing
@@waldemarczaja1273 ??? Epee is one of 3 types of fencing blades. It's like fails hockey. It's hockey but just has different rules. Same with epee and the other 2 blades
@@waldemarczaja1273 epee is fencing. epee means sword in french. fleuret is foil, both are fencing.
You may also try Roy Jones defeat in the 1988 Olympics.
Nice content. More please!
Imagine winning a medal that you know you dont deserve, and actually be happy and proud of it.
Shame
Great content
2014 Russian Olympic Team says "Hold My Beer."
Exactly. Nothing compares to the epic, audacious, systematic, state-sponsored cheating which took place there.
As an engineer, this makes me kinda proud
it's not that hard; there is a switch on top of the epee and there are two wires that go to the counting machine connect the wires and recieve a hit
On the funny side: Onischenko was last seen in the streets of Kiev, driving a taxi. However, customers noticed that they had to pay excessively, reported to the police, who found that the taximeter had been tampered with.
Brilliant reaction from the volleyball team, pick a window because you’re leaving. 😂
It’s 2021 and I’m still mad about Yuna getting robbed
Worst I've ever seen anybody be cheated was Roy Jones Jr. In Seoul, 1988. After I watched that for the first time I felt SO bad for him, AND his opponent. Rjj looked so defeated, and his opponent looked so ashamed.
Paul Wilkinson That's the incident I immediately think about when I hear about an unfair result. I was only 7 years old but remember it clearly.
Fern Lin-Healy yeah, me too. It was the WORST corruption from the judges I've ever seen at the Olympics. Can you imagine how either rjj or his opponent felt after that result was announced? I'm surprised the opponent didn't cry too.
Margarito plaster scandel was the most devastating cheta in boxing history
@@spectre4962 nah he got caught pre fight! Resto vs. Collins was the worst example of dangerous cheating :(. 2 inches worth of padding removed, and not noticed until after it was WAAAY too late. Poor guy was brutally injured, torn iris, permanently blurry vision, and he could never box again.
Roy was robbed big time, but being Italian I want to remind everyone that Cammarelle was robbed by Joshua in 2012
Thank you for the content, it was great... but it was so obvious that those 2 weren't fencers... they could have used fencing jackets at least instead of wearing a white sweatshirt 😕😕
The ScarletHeda this was meant for a comedic effect.
And they were in LP training club, apparently
For me it is the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where in the boxing sport, Onyok Velasco only got silver against the Bulgarian boxer and lots of boxing analysts commented that Velasco should have won the gold medal.
Nice content 👍
Haha cheeky joke at the end there!
Saw him in Kiev at the now defunct Dynamo swimming pool. You got the stress wrong - it is on the second syllable.
Luckily ROC has calmed down that mentality ever since and would never cheat again in the Olympics
Your ironi is world class. :)
With epee, the circuit closes on just the weapon (with foil/sabre, it closes with contact to opponent lame), in short the weapon's point is just a switch.
The wire runs through to the guard. To cheat it, all that's needed is to connect those wires under the guard. You don't even need that small board seen in the video, just a small switch running to the blade's wire. So now, the weapons are inspected and the wire has to be seen until the connecting body wire.
I'm surprised this happened back then, at an Olympic level even. I'm sure even back then people already understood electronics. That all it needs to close a circuit is to connect the wires.
Heck...all you really need is something conductive like lame fabric on whatever finger of your weapon can that can lay across the A and B receivers on the socket.
Like The Nature Boy always said: "Win if you can. Lose if you must. But always cheat!" From his mouth to you know whose ear.
May I point out that most of the live stuff shown here is a recreation? Not the actual film footage.
Obviously
The pentathlon was a very difficult event. Competitors had to be well rounded in many events.
Actors in this video had done an awesome job 😍
Most devious cheat in the Olympics history:
Being told that there is a hall of shame
This is why no mobiles allowed in UPSC exams...😂😂
The most devious cheats are the actors acting skills.
Ha this is the Leon Paul fencing centre!
In present times, he would have made a fortune by appearing on reality shows and 'tell all interviews'.
I like his competitive spirit. They should have given him a gold for innovation.
Ok but that was a genius idea lmfaoo
The thing is he won against the British man even without cheating so if he never cheated then he would have got gold
Why drive a taxi when he could have worked as an Electronic Engineer.
Too be honest, this is quite clever...... Should've hired him for some underground tings
Strange wires in his taxi. Hahahaha 😹
All of his medals should have been stripped and his name should be stricken from Olympic history. Cheating is not a mistake.
There’s always a cheater and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the organizers 🤣
Such foolishness. Did he really think he'd not get caught? He threw away his career, honour, and respect and lost in humiliation.
This was during the Soviet era...if the KGB said to cheat, you cheated,
2:30 *pulls out Arduino* 😂😂😂😂😂
Most devious cheats would be the ones you haven't caught yet...
You should show some shooting moments! Would be cool.
1:57 In fencing you don’t Shake hands with you facing hand, you always do that with the other.
It took 3.... matches(?) before someone said "hey maybe we should take a look at his equipment?"
The Modern Pentathlon sounds so odd
“an all-round test of an athlete’s skill”
yeah, okay, maybe if you’re upper class lmao
It was supposed to simulate a Napoleonic message courier...tasked to take a message to HQ, he starts out on a horse, then has to swim a bit, gets involved in a sword fight and an additional pistol fight, then run to HQ.
@@samsignorelli oh that’s actually very interesting, makes a lot more sense to me now!
Why was the device under the pad a breadboard, LED, wires, and a few buttons with no battery and no source of power
Imagine getting punked out by volleyball players LOL
The Pentathlon, I thought, comes from days of Nobility, Chivalry & Military’s shared gentry
What about that American marathon runner who took lift in the car and won the race!!!????
Why in majority of USSR stories they r represented as villains. Olympics had to be neutral bt it seems like the whole olympics committee is against USSR/Russia. It s the individuals role and blaming the whole team/country is like blaming the whole humanity for a single man's mistake
because liars always blame other people and judge them harshly.
Funniest thing is they thanged equipment and fought again and Onishenko still won.
No they didn't.
I like how most of the cheats are done by Russia
Yea that’s cause they only detect Russians due to diplomatic relationships, but the other cheaters from different countries are never caught since they are always covered up.
@@rebound3829 and u know this how?
@@rebound3829 really?
@@sharangans4836 Both IOC and WADA are located in the west who hates Russia. Most of the olympic athletes use peds, but Russians are heavily targeted and harrassed.
@@crossmaster77 Facts
Fencing skills
Lunging
Dodging
Parrying
Electric soldering
You haven't seen my Wii baseball matches
**cough cough** then there’s the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games...
*2014
He should have used proximity sensor effectively
The funniest olympics video on youtube ever
Other athletes can dispute the position of more cheat, some could not be caught on the spot, Florence Griffith Joyner perhaps?
Hard to believe he thought he would get away with anything that obvious!
This idiotic reenactment makes it seem a lot less sophisticated than it actually was.
"lemme just put this breadboard in my sword, shgouldn't affect my grip whatsoever"
Well, you would not care, since you'll score points at will
If he had to face Brezhnev afterwards and still was alive enough to end up driving a taxi, sounds like he got mega lucky...
Well, nobody knows what happened to him after that so.....
I can't imagine anything worse in sports than cheating at the Olympics.
I think more people should cheat in the olympics throw some real drama into the mix
2:47 that wiring contraption does absolutely nothing. It's a breadboard with a few wires leading to nowhere.
It's also not even remotely accurate to what the switch actually looked like.
Even in SemiFinal in 2012 London Mary Kom got cheated
And how official Olympic channel shaming cheat players
Song at the end?
did you find it ?
As Onischenko has learnt the hard way, you can't outfox a Fox.
(Sorry for the horrible joke...)
The worst example is the male athlete by name Laurel Hubbart who was in the women's class in weightlifting, Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021
The Brits had their International Velvet that year.
He should have just waited for the state sponsored doping program to help him out.
He was ahead of his time.
Great brain😂
Im from the book New English File intermediate 😂😂
Real smart. Noone will notice me not touching the guy again and again but scoring hits. He obviously thought everyone around him was a idiot.
We sould have a cheat olympics too to find such gem cons
A+ reenactment!
If there was 0.2 seconds left and it started at 1.0 second they should just have said if it falls below 0.8 then Shin claims the title
Wrong fencing vid, lol.
What?
This game reminds me first of tom and jerry.. 😂
Boris Onischenko has to be one of the worst cheats in Olympics history.
*Weightlifting and running in 80's is full of cheats!*
The Montréal Olympic games were the most chemical games ever !
If I ever found that
I would use it but.....but
Listen
Just for the finals
This re-enactment is hilarious.
Se mamaron con la parte final de su taximetro jajajaja.
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