Featured in their list of sports personalities who died this year:
CHESS
Russian chess master Yuri Yeliseyev
So Chess is officially a sport?
BBC Sports Personality 2016
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Seems strange that SPOTY went for Yuri & not Korchnoi or Taimanov.
Other than Yuri was a former world junior champion.
Journalism at BBC not as good as it used to be.
With Brexit we may not want to use European rulings - but I cannot see this one changing soon as a sport.
Even so for some of us that will be good - many of my drugs are banned. Will need some other help in near future.
Other than Yuri was a former world junior champion.
Journalism at BBC not as good as it used to be.
With Brexit we may not want to use European rulings - but I cannot see this one changing soon as a sport.
Even so for some of us that will be good - many of my drugs are banned. Will need some other help in near future.
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Testing in chess is just a charade to tick boxes. In any case, be a cyclist, and get a therapeutic usage exemption.Nick Grey wrote: Even so for some of us that will be good - many of my drugs are banned. Will need some other help in near future.
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Roger de Coverly wrote:
Testing in chess is just a charade to tick boxes. In any case, be a cyclist, and get a therapeutic usage exemption.
Is cycling the only sport that is able to command "therapeutic usage exemption" ?
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Every sport can and probably does use it. Cycling had been in the news in that context.John Upham wrote: Is cycling the only sport that is able to command "therapeutic usage exemption" ?