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I don't know. European golfers and fans loved Seve and he was a cheat.
I think that snooker and darts are still above board. Whether or not one classifies them as sports is a different matter.
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I don't know if using lager qualifies as cheating other than getting your date to imbibe but Canadian snooker player Bill Werbeniuk needed lots of lager to calm his nerves.
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Bill spent several successful seasons in the top 16, but his story is a sad one - the gallons of lager he drank before, during and after matches were to control an hereditary nervous disorder that caused his cue arm to tremble. He made the highest break of the 1985 World Championship - 143, but from the mid-1980s a steady decline in form set in, which coincided with a substantial increase in his alcohol consumption. He even made headlines by acquiring a medical certificate which approved his lager-drinking, and offsetting the cost of the booze against income tax as a necessary overhead.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lanc...plain/A1032058