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BBC Sports Personality 2016
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:22 pm
by Allan Hodgkinson
Featured in their list of sports personalities who died this year:
CHESS
Russian chess master Yuri Yeliseyev
So Chess is officially a sport?
Re: BBC Sports Personality 2016
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:41 am
by John Upham
Re: BBC Sports Personality 2016
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:31 pm
by Nick Grey
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.
Re: BBC Sports Personality 2016
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 8:04 pm
by Roger de Coverly
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.
Testing in chess is just a charade to tick boxes. In any case, be a cyclist, and get a therapeutic usage exemption.
Re: BBC Sports Personality 2016
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 2:48 pm
by John Upham
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" ?
Re: BBC Sports Personality 2016
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:00 pm
by Roger de Coverly
John Upham wrote:
Is cycling the only sport that is able to command "therapeutic usage exemption" ?
Every sport can and probably does use it. Cycling had been in the news in that context.
