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- Polymarket ruled that football star Cristiano Ronaldo cried after Portugal’s 1-0 World Cup loss to Spain on July 6, 2026, issuing a “yes” verdict based on qualifying evidence it did not disclose.
- The market opened with roughly a 70 % probability that Ronaldo would cry.
- Carnegie Mellon expert Ron Yurko warned that the opaque process shows a “wild-west” market.
- The verdict settled a multi-million-dollar market, creating large gains and losses for participants.
