Chess cheating scandal
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The chess cheating scandal of 2022 concerned a highly unlikely ostensible victory by a 19-year-old relatively low-ranked player named Hans Niemann, playing with the weaker black pieces, against the greatest player of our time, Magnus Carlsen, while Carlsen was on an unbeaten streak. This was the second improbable defeat by Niemann with the black pieces against Carlsen in merely a few months. Carslen then quit the tournament, which is nearly unprecedented, and some infer his comment afterwards to mean that he felt he had been cheated. Niemann denied that he cheated.
The odds of a player of Niemann's lower ranking defeating the high-ranking Carlsen twice with the black pieces is estimated to be only 1 in 2,500.