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A BBB/Buzzfeed report out today throws great suspicion on top tennis players in, yet another, betting/fixing scandal.

How I hate this. Athletics, cricket, football and now tennis all apparently victims of this pernicious action. Others as well, I suspect

Call me old-fashioned but to me the very essence of sport is fair competition - without that it is a pointless, solitary exercise and those involved might be better engaged in promoting their own fitness as individuals, and spectators and supporters should just find something else to do.

Any thoughts? How can this be minimised?
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18-01-2016, 10:48 AM
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Money root of all evil, unless they can take it out of sport, seems very little problem in amateur sports, I think it will be hard to get it under control.
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18-01-2016, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by dinahsmum ->
A BBB/Buzzfeed report out today throws great suspicion on top tennis players in, yet another, betting/fixing scandal.

How I hate this. Athletics, cricket, football and now tennis all apparently victims of this pernicious action. Others as well, I suspect

Call me old-fashioned but to me the very essence of sport is fair competition - without that it is a pointless, solitary exercise and those involved might be better engaged in promoting their own fitness as individuals, and spectators and supporters should just find something else to do.

Any thoughts? How can this be minimised?
I was reading this too and totally agree with you. At least it only appears to affect the players lower down the rankings rather than the top seeds. It would be even more horrifying if the very best were involved.
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18-01-2016, 11:36 AM
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It is so sad that sportsmen and women feel they have to cheat to be able to win at sport.

Is it best to test all athletes before they go out to run, play tennis, cricket etc. but I think if they are going to cheat they will always find a way around any test.
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18-01-2016, 11:36 AM
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Fairly high in the food chain though, according to this, from the BBC website

The 28 players that the investigators highlighted continued to compete at the highest levels without being disciplined. Some have now retired but others are still playing at Grand Slam tournaments, including this week's Australian Open.
The leaked documents and interviews with more than a dozen sources indicate that 16 players who over the last decade have been ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged up to the TIU. They include several Grand Slam doubles winners.
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18-01-2016, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by shirley ->
It is so sad that sportsmen and women feel they have to cheat to be able to win at sport.

Is it best to test all athletes before they go out to run, play tennis, cricket etc. but I think if they are going to cheat they will always find a way around any test.
But this is about throwing away matches for betting purposes rather than cheating to win.
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Fairly high in the food chain though, according to this, from the BBC website

The 28 players that the investigators highlighted continued to compete at the highest levels without being disciplined. Some have now retired but others are still playing at Grand Slam tournaments, including this week's Australian Open.
The leaked documents and interviews with more than a dozen sources indicate that 16 players who over the last decade have been ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged up to the TIU. They include several Grand Slam doubles winners.
Oh, I misread. I thought it was the top 200 not the top 50. Sounds worse, then.
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18-01-2016, 12:26 PM
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There is no end to corruption in sport it seems .

I just don't get it myself, if I hadn't won something fairly it would have no meaning for me all sense of achievement would be lost.
Whether the reason for cheating was substance related or throwing a game it is all the same to me.
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Absolutely!

If you're going to do sport, do it clean, do it fair, else do something else. Anything other than clean and fair simply isn't sport. The expression "It's just not cricket" didn't come about for no reason
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Cheating in sport ..... How I hate this. Athletics, cricket, football and now tennis all apparently victims of this pernicious action.
I'm with you. I thoroughly loath Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong, but possibly the worst cheater of all time is Michael Schumacher when he VERY DEMONSTRATIVELY crashed into Jacques Villeneuve at the 1997 GP … to win the season on points.
 
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