Good news! Following up from this https://feddit.uk/post/18671151

The men’s World Conker Championships winner has been cleared of cheating after a steel chestnut was found in his pocket.

  • SSJ3Marx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Glad to hear that the integrity of this sport where someone from another country can try it out for the first time and become the world champion one year later is still intact!

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    1 month ago

    "We are gentlemen at the World Conker Championships and we don’t cheat. I’ve been playing and practising for decades. That’s how I won.

    Mr Jakins won the men’s competition but lost in the overall final to women’s champion Kelci Banschbach, originally from the United States, who only took up the game last year when she moved to Suffolk.

    Hmm.

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        1 month ago

        I often think that about tennis as it is in the sport where physical strength is really a major factor. Humans just seem to have this need to separate men and women into separate groups at least we’re a little bit when doing sports.