{"product_id":"cheat-by-titus-oreily-9781760894498","title":"Cheat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCheat\u003c\/em\u003e by Titus O'Reily is a hilarious trip through the history of cheating in sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere there's sport, there's cheating. No sport is immune; athletics, swimming, rugby, American Football, cricket, baseball, badminton, motorsports, tennis, and curling. Yes, even that sport on the ice with brooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost as soon as humans started playing sport competitively, they started to cheat. They cheated to win, for the fame, for the money, and sometimes for reasons that are hard to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the fiendishly clever to the outright hare-brained, the borderline to the blatant, Titus O'Reily takes us through the many and varied ways athletes and countries have tried to cheat over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's the winner of the New York marathon who was driven in a car part of the way, the male basketballer whose drug test revealed he was pregnant, the Tour De France where many of the riders took the train, and the Spanish Paralympic basketball team who faked being intellectually disabled to win gold at the 2000 Paralympics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as sharing an alarming amount of tales involving swapping bodily fluids, Titus takes you through doping, illegal equipment, bribes, playing dirty, faking injuries, wearing disguises, dodgy referees, ball tampering, eye gouging, itching powder, licking an opponent to distract them, and sending a dwarf out to bat to shrink the strike zone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust as sport has become more sophisticated, so has cheating in sport, from state-backed doping programs to tiny motors in Tour De France bikes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does this say about us, that we cheat with such regularity and creativity? Will technology help stop cheating or will it only make it worse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMastering the not-so-subtle art of cheating, \u003cem\u003eCheat\u003c\/em\u003e is a hilarious trip through the history of cheating in sport, and a handy how-to guide for the professional athlete in your family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340676612332,"sku":"9781760894498","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26331923482814.jpg?v=1772165002","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/cheat-by-titus-oreily-9781760894498","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}