World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating
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David Jakins, 82, known as "King Conker", said he kept a steel chestnut in his pocket for "humour value".

Good news! Following up from this https://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.

  • flamingos-cantEnglish
    15•2 months ago

    So he went with the means to cheat, but didn’t use it? That’s somehow even stranger.

  • @TheGrandNagusEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    I didn’t cheat, sir, honest. I merely had the answers to the test written on my arm as a joke.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 months ago

    "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.

    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.

      • Echo DotEnglish
        -1•2 months ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 months ago

    Finding out about conker championships is like finding out about professional corn hole all over again.