'An absolute fluke': How a cameraman's chance zoom exposed Australia's 2018 Sandpapergate scandal
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What happened
"When he threw the ball on, he put his hand in his pocket. The cameraman - and these are big, big lens cameras - he zoomed into his pocket. The slow-mo operator looked at it, spooled it back and forth, then zoomed in and could see the yellow spot."
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