BBC Sports Personality 2016

[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?

[John Upham]

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12 ... -tax-free/

[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.

[Roger de Coverly]

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.

[John Upham]

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" ?

[Roger de Coverly]

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.