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Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub

theguardian.com

6 pointsauggierose10 comments

So, I gotta ask: What does winning a tournament have to do how the guy behaves in his hotel? I mean, is the tournament owned by the hotel?? Very weird.

The title comes from the Chinese Xiangqi Association.

Like a number of sporting associations about the globe in many countries it has things to say about association members that "bring the sport into disrepute" through questionable behaviour.

The association is stripping the title it awarded from him, just as a racing association can scratch a winning because of suspicions about drugs, organised betting rings, etc.

For whatever reason the Xiangqi Association doesn't want its titles to be linked to players that are publicly known for taking dumps in hotel bath tubs and|or accusations of cheating.

Let's assume you win Wimbledon. Together with its prize money of £2 Million Pound. Afterwards you go and kill somebody. They will not strip you of your Wimbledon title.

So this title seems more of a cultural trophy than a sporting trophy. In that setting, winners of prizes (Bafta winner Noel Clarke, for example), can be stripped of a prize a posteriori.

If true, that's entirely the choice of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club committee .. who are not without controversy of their own.

No part of my comment asserts that all clubs and associations are in lockstep with each other, just that all clubs and associations can and do set their own rules.

FWiW here is a short list of some sporting winners that have had their titles removed, medals revoked, wins deleted from official records for bad | unsporting behaviour (as determined by various associations):

A look at awards, titles or wins in sports stripped due to off-field issues

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/02/07/a-look...

These are not off-field issues. Being doped / drugged is of course a reason to withdraw a title a posteriori. Shitting in your bath tub is not.

I think the distinction between cultural and sport trophy makes sense: A cultural trophy is something someone gave to you for their own reasons, so of course they can take it away as well. A sport trophy is something you earned. Unless somebody can prove you didn't actually earn it (doping / cheating), it is very uncommon to be taken away after the fact.

    Joe Paterno: Penn State removed the legendary coach's statue outside the stadium, and 111 of his career wins were erased because of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

Are you saying that the child molestation took place on field?

I guess that's what I mean by "uncommon". Count the examples in your list, and that's one of the very few actual counterexamples.

Furthermore, and I think this is important, he was a coach, not an athlete.

Finally, child molestation is in a different category than shitting in a bath tub, but I admit that is besides the point.

One of those headlines I thought I'd never read, and wish I hadn't ...

There's a lot of butt stuff in that article.

because he was removing the anal transmission device used to win championship

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