Submitted 3 weeks ago by frazorth@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://news.sky.com/story/world-conker-championships-mens-winner-cleared-of-cheating-13237587
Good news! Following up from this 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.
Glad to hear that the integrity of this sport where someone from another county can try it out for the first time and become the world champion one year later is still intact!
Hasn’t he competed every year since 1977?
Oh I was talking about the women’s/overall champion, an American who supposedly just played for the first time last year
I didn’t cheat, sir, honest. I merely had the answers to the test written on my arm as a joke.
"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.
“I admit I had the steel conker in my pocket, but I didn’t play with it. I show it to people as a joke, but I won’t be bringing it again.”
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.
Why on earth is it segregated by gender…
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.
How will the sport of conker recover from this
Finding out about conker championships is like finding out about professional corn hole all over again.
Which Conker game do they play? Bad fur day?
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
So he went with the means to cheat, but didn’t use it? That’s somehow even stranger.