00:00As he touched the wall, he secured the gold medal and he beat the Australian-held world record in
00:04the 100-metre breaststroke. The South African supporters in the crowd were on their feet,
00:09roaring, and Cameron Vandenberg was on top of the world. But when the Australian media took a closer
00:15look at what Cameron was doing while he was hidden under the surface of the water, that's when they
00:20started calling for him to be disqualified. But the judges hadn't seen anything. After all,
00:25despite there being cameras all over the bottom of the pool to capture every moment of the race,
00:30those angles are only used by the media, while the judges needed to rely on what they could see
00:35from above the water with their naked eye. So what the judges didn't know is that Cameron had cheated.
00:41But how? Was he pulling the other swimmers back while under the water? No, the other swimmers
00:45would complain about that. Maybe he had a small jet ski engine hidden inside his butthole. No,
00:51people might notice that. The method Cameron used to cheat was something far simpler. See,
00:55in breaststroke, when swimmers dive off the starting blocks and enter the pool,
00:59the rules allow for one single dolphin kick while under the water before they come back up to the
01:04surface. But when reviewing the footage and taking a closer look at what Cameron was doing,
01:08people noticed that he did one, two, three kicks before returning to the surface. The Australians
01:16were, of course, outraged. Cameron had dethroned the Australian world record holder and relegated the
01:21Aussie swimmer in this Olympic race to second place. And when Cameron spoke to the Australian media
01:26soon after, he admitted to cheating. However, he didn't apologise. Instead, he pointed out something
01:32that most people, particularly in the Australian media, seem to have overlooked, which is that the
01:37Australian swimmer also did multiple dolphin kicks off the start, as did nearly all the other
01:43swimmers in the race. As Cameron explained in the interview, if you're not doing it, you're giving
01:47yourself a disadvantage. He used the moment to encourage the International Swimming Federation to
01:52give judges access to underwater cameras so that he didn't have to cheat to keep up with the others.
01:57And today, underwater cameras are now used by judges in all major competitive swimming events
02:02to check for cheating.
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