Which sport is the most corrupt?

[Bry Nylon]

Horse racing is obviously as bent as they come, with jockeys, trainers and owners in bed with the bookies.

Cricket - not good. Boxing - even worse. Snooker, football, tennis have all had their issues. Rugby had its blood capsuale drama.

Athletics, cycling and swimming are riddled with drugs.

Are there any truely clean sports left?

 

[Tooting Gull]

I was going to say dressage, but even they have had scandals with horses doped up to the eyeballs.

Croquet? Real tennis?

 

[Easy 10]

Got to be cycling. Seems like they're always drugged up to the eyeballs.

 

[byronsdad]

Not sure but i know which fans are corrupt sexually that is!

 

[ILIKECANDLES]

Cricket? Depends who is playing. I doubt there's much between England and australia

 

[Biscuit]

Boxing.

 

[Jerryatric]

Synchronised swimming.

 

[The Large One]

Wrestling.

 

[Marc]

Curling, I see teams out there with HAIRDRYERS pre-match to alter the ice characteristics....all very dodgy.

 

[Dave the OAP]

fishing. Anyone who does this "sport" is a wierdo

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

F1

 

[hola gus]

Flat racing

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Apart from stating the obvious Wrestling, where it's not even a pretence that it's a set up - it has to be Cycling.

Cricket has its problems, but I believe those to be quite rare.

Boxing - it's never occurred to me to be fixed, other than picking the right opponents for a fighter, and some fighters not getting fair shake when fighting a US boxer in the US.

Not sure that athletics or swiming are "riddled with drugs" these days - the testing regimes are very, very tough. We hear about the high profile ones, but it's not as if they catch people every day.

I can't talk, of course, the injections I have to give myself each week for a long term condition, is the one that most athletes get banned for - EPO, not that I claim to be an olympic potential.

 

[vegster]

"All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely " if only it was that simple. Sports played one-on one are always open to be "thrown " or fixed as only one half of the two players needs to be willing to cheat. It's much harder, if not impossible to really influence a result in team games such as football.

Corporate cheating is much harder to prove and yet indeed easier to get away with quite often. ( Ferrari ?)

However, I think that horse racing suffers from systemic corruption which is fueled by mug punters and fraudulent tipsters. Everybody inside the "business" knows where to put their money and so its just a waste of time and money sitting in Ladbrokes all afternoon.

 

[Guerrero]

Football is the new wrestling.You only have to look at the way the decisions go for the big teams in the Premiership to know that the whole thing is crooked.

 

[MORTY]

Greyhound racing.

 

[Mackenzie]

Horse racing, although it depends on how you define corrupt. In every handicap race there will be jockeys who have no intention of winning.

 

[Giraffe]

Horse racing

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Flat racing by eight country furlongs.

 

[Stat Brother]

Athletics, cycling and swimming are riddled with drugs.

Are there any truely clean sports left?

Apart from stating the obvious Wrestling, where it's not even a pretence that it's a set up - it has to be Cycling.

Not sure that athletics or swiming are "riddled with drugs" these days - the testing regimes are very, very tough. We hear about the high profile ones, but it's not as if they catch people every day.

All sport is riddled with drugs, and if you don't believe that to be true, Tricky, I've got some magic beans for sale.
Yes, cycling has always been at the forefront of drug taking, and therefore has to be at the cutting edge of testing.
If every sportsman was tested like a pro cyclist is, there would be no professional sport.