<In the first blitz game, Radjabov outplayed his opponent with Black and was a piece up when he suddenly noticed that the flag on his clock was about to fall. Trying to accumulate some extra time, he made a couple of moves without much thought. In doing so, the winning position was turned into a hopeless one. But this is immaterial because his flag still did fall! It turned out that at the beginning of the game, the arbiter (Ostashevsky, an elderly man from Samara ) forgot to set Radjabov's clock to add the required time increment per move.

Instead of simply ordering a replay of the first tie-break game, the arbiters ridiculously ordered Ehlvest and Radjabov to play the second blitz game, with the result of the first game still not determined. Radjabov refused of course, but later agreed to his disgust due to the insistence of the arbiters. This second blitz game was drawn. Surprisingly, the verdict for the first blitz game still hung in the air for more than an hour when it was so obvious they should just order a replay of the game.

When the verdict finally came, everybody was struck by its imbecility (there's no other word for it, according to KasparovChess correspondent Ilya Gorodetsky)! The players were asked to finish that game from the moment Radjabov ran out of time, and the players would get seven minutes each (this figure appeared as a result of a complicated but idiotic calculation that nobody was able to understand). Naturally Teimour refused to play and his game was adjudicated lost.>

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<By the way, I want to point out that the players signed a contract stipulating that two tiebreak games should be played with the time control of 5+10. In my match with Ehlvest only one of two games was played with the required time control. The other game was started (and never finished) with a different time control. In other words, our fifth game was formally not played at all under the regulations of the World Chess Championship, and after five officially played games with an even score I was considered a loser.>

Both players suffered. You wrote: "It turned out that at the beginning of the game, the arbiter (Ostashevsky, an elderly man from Samara ) forgot to set Radjabov's clock to add the required time increment per move."

BOTH players, not only Radjabov.