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.

  • flamingos-cant
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    178 months ago

    So he went with the means to cheat, but didn’t use it? That’s somehow even stranger.

  • SSJ3Marx [he/him]
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    8 months 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!

      • SSJ3Marx [he/him]
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        58 months ago

        Oh I was talking about the women’s/overall champion, an American who supposedly just played for the first time last year

      • Skua
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        48 months ago

        He didn’t win the overall final, only the men’s one. He lost to the women’s winner, who moved to the UK from the US last year

  • @SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    8 months 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.