Gaffer Tape said:

Gaffer Tape said:

The IOC literally cheated her out of a shot for the gold medal.

I just don't see how I could have been any clearer in what I meant than that. How Heidemann got involved in this, I will never know, but you sure seem convinced I said that or intimated that somewhere. But that quote is the first time I ever mentioned "cheating" in the context of this conversation, and it never strayed from this point.

well it looked like you had.

Gaffer Tape said:

If there isn't any way to protect against cheating, then sports are even more worthless than I thought.

Gaffer Tape said:

cheat-To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation

So, no, it wasn't on purpose, but the rules were violated, and they were violated in such a way that the other competitor gained an advantage (not sure how much more of an advantage you can get than winning through the rules being broken when you wouldn't have won if they were followed). So, yes, cheating.

when one is talking about cheating in a sporting event, one is usually referring to one of the competitors deliberately committing a violation of the rules. Normally, one doesn't call an honest mistake by a timekeeper, cheating. Yeah you can still say the IOC cheated Shim out of a metal, it is not exactly the same thing as saying actually cheating had occurred. understand?