Robert Milkins
Alcohol, sportsmen and intellectuals are rarely seen together, and it’s been another year full of good-bye stories. Take, for example, South Korean sprinter Kim Min-seok, a three-time Olympic medalist, who in August gave three athletes home from a birthday party. their friend at the national training center near Seoul, got into the car directly. Shamaki also received an 18-month ban from the sport (two of his passengers were banned for six months for drink-driving and the absent coach got a year for “carelessness”; Kim never got enough. public and therefore criminal charges are avoided). But the most infamous sporting incident of the year took place in Antalya in March, when English snooker player Robert Milkins attended the opening ceremony of the Turkish Masters, having already celebrated his birthday. his birth, intoxicated he faced a senior official, he was wounded in the head and fell. in the toilets, he ended up throwing up in the hospital. “I don’t really know what happened, I’m in a situation where I don’t know where I am,” he said. “When I got to the toilet I lost my footing and I thought I hit my hamstring on the sink or the floor, and I cut it open. I almost got knocked out, and I’m pretty sure I broke his ribs. If my stomach hurts I don’t even remember.” Headaches can’t hurt him too much – after 27 years as an undefeated professional, he won his next tournament – the Gibraltar Open.
Draymond Green
There are excuses and there are apologies, and basketball player Draymond Green was truly heartbroken in October after video surfaced of him landing a perfect right hook on Golden State Warriors teammate Jordan Poole in practice. “I failed as a man,” said the longtime controversy-magnet. “I am a very weak person.” Green went on to prove that, his past high profile actions including being suspended for a crucial game of the 2016 NBA Finals after he punched LeBron James in the groin, intentionally tarnishing his image. on Snapchat (he said it was “meant to be a private message” and that “we all stay away from putting anything in the wrong place”) and another suspension for an argument with a teammate, Kevin Durant. No one else some of it seems to have damaged his reputation in particular. “I’m the best goaltender to ever play this game,” he said. “100%.” He also hit someone he shouldn’t this year: a wrestler India’s Satender Malik, who punched the referee after losing the under-125kg final in his country‘s Commonwealth Games, was banned for life. A few weeks later he was banned again. for a period of four years, if such a thing is possible, after the allegation “he fled the scene without informing anyone” after being invited to take an antibiotic test.
Elton Jantjies
It was a memorable year for South Africa’s Elton Jantjies’ 42-wicket haul. In May he returned alone from a family vacation to Turkey, an unusual trip that arrived in Johannesburg and was immediately arrested for “damaging property”. He apparently broke the glass and damaged the screen and light in the business class seat, while an economy passenger claimed to have seen him in the bathroom – “he tried to keep his balance” – and knocked on the door with force. The knots bled, all the while pleading with the housewife, who locked herself inside to protect herself from “komaan, skat na”, Afrikaans for “come, my love”. When he gave up there was “blood all over the bathroom door”. In September, he was sent home from a tour of Argentina after reports emerged that he had left the team hotel and checked in with the team’s doctor, Zeenat Simjee. He accepted the incident, while Simjee’s lawyer insisted that he was not with her but with another woman. She went with the team on a winter tour to Europe but Jantjies stayed in South Africa and checked into a rehab for “depression” and “insomnia”. “As a fly-half, I believe playing Test rugby I need a lot of sleep,” he said.
Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky
It was a year full of legends of scams, conflicts and conspiracies, a year in which the concept of shaking an anus in chess or worse, jumped irrevocably into the public consciousness. But who, from this crowded field, deserves a place in the Anti-Spoty Light? Next step is Runyan and Cominsky, and when the fishing duo wins they are eliminated – along with their pike, their bass and their fish. It’s not the first time the pair’s integrity has been questioned – after winning their Lake Erie race last year Cominsky failed a mandatory polygraph test, meaning they were denied their first prize of a $125,000 yacht. (they happily passed the test for another. They won the competition this weekend, going home with a $152,000 boat). At the time, Runyan said the couple were “looking for a legal route”, adding that he was “good at choosing where there are dark things.” Unfortunately for him, too, Jason Fischer, director of this year’s Lake Erie Walleye Trail, who in September began to question the weight of the unimpressive fish Runyan and Cominsky had landed, pieced together and he started to release the weight of the lead. This may interest you : How To Make Money With Food Waste Too Good To Go. Instead of being awarded $28,760, they found themselves in hot water for a change, charged with one count each of wire fraud, attempted grand larceny, possession of criminal tools and illegal possession of wildlife. They have also inspired major fishing tournaments to start investing in metal detectors. The two men have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. “This is bad for fishing as a sport,” said Ron Taylor, a bass angler. “It’s hard for people who play by the rules and I think people who want to hear about catching big fish.”
Sander van Ginkel
It’s the year of the Winter Olympics, which is guaranteed to be controversial, and Van Ginkel won the gold medal in a competitive arena, throwing down a crazy ski jump that disqualified him from the competition. Van Ginkel is the sports scientist employed by the Dutch national track and field team, who launched a program that influenced Beijing’s ice skater, Mark Messer, in an effort to forcing him to skate to match his country’s skaters. Far from hiding his involvement, he happily chatted with him. “The colder the snow, the harder it is,” he said. “Many other countries produce skaters who have short strokes and for whom ice is not important. I am trying to create a better environment for our racers, and I hope to convince Messer and his people with my ideas. I think he and his staff are interested in what I have to say.” This did not go down well with the skaters. On the same subject : Media rights fees for lower rated sports are rising. “This is far from fair play, this is corruption,” he said. said Sweden’s Nils van der Poel. “This is the biggest scandal in our sport. We’ve had doping cases but I don’t see it as serious. They have a guy whose job is to put pressure on the ice maker to change the ice for However, the best ice for me is when the ice is good. I’m very good when the ice is good.” The ice could not be bigger: Van der Poel won two golds of his own.
Special Anti-Spoty gift for gas lighting
Anti-Spoty special award for gaslighting
Qatar, to host, in the middle of the World Cup, the 2022 Anti-Corruption Awards or, to give them their official title after being named in honor of the King of the country, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani. International Gift Award. To see also : Pat McAfee, the star who jumps a river and lies in a chair: Sports Media Personality of the Year. For the first time this year, a special award was given to the leader of the fight against corruption in sports; Among the guests for the celebration, Gianni Infantino of Fifa of corruption.
Anti-Spoty quote of the year
“The stomach, those abs, those pictures you send me to keep pages / You make me feel good there. Especially when you’re there and you look up and look / I’ll end by saying you’re my lover, my friend, my soul / And most of all you believe in me that makes me as hard as a totem pole.” – Ryan Giggs’ love song, as read in court during his trial for showing power or coercion to the subject of the song, Kate Greville. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and a retrial is scheduled for next summer.
