Boule? Yep, cheating there too

[Robert5091]

http://www.dn.se/sport/falskt-klot-chockar-boulevarlden/
Ball tampering by the German team in boule's Veteran European Championship in Monaco.
Inside one ball a mercury weight wrapped in cotton ... cheating in boule. How low can you go.

http://www.svenskboule.se/forbundet/Nyheter/Nyheter1/makalosem-skandalgavsverigebrons/
The whole saga (In Swedish I'm afraid) with photos of suspect ball cut in two. Klaus Mohr is the man at the center of this scandal. No wonder why he kept on winning!

 

[Zebadeedee]

Hidden motors and a gyroscope next.

 

[Robert5091]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-from-match-fixing-and-violence-10383926.html
2015 - Herve Rofritsch: World's oldest boules producer warns sport suffering from match-fixing and violence.
A number of teams have in recent years used knives and even guns to intimidate their opponents.

In May, a pétanque championship in Landes, a town near Biarritz, was interrupted when a fight between a player and spectator erupted. Police arrested six members from three generations of the same family for inflicting injuries with bats, iron bars and a metal-capped walking stick.

The President of the International Federation of Pétanque and Provençal Game (FIPJP), Claude Azéma, said an increase in local clubs offering cash prizes was behind the surge in violence.

“We see this kind of violence in the local clubs because more and more they have started to offer money as prizes so people play for cash rather than for the joy of playing,” he said.

He also blamed the consumption of alcohol, which is legally served at all sporting events across France, for violence in the boulodrome.

In June a court sentenced two men, aged 22 and 29, to up to 15 years in prison for killing a man in a boulodrome in Montady, a village near Montpellier, after a fight broke out over an unpaid whisky bill.
(Jeez! :surprised: )

 

[movingtarget]

Re:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-from-match-fixing-and-violence-10383926.html
2015 - Herve Rofritsch: World's oldest boules producer warns sport suffering from match-fixing and violence.
A number of teams have in recent years used knives and even guns to intimidate their opponents.

In May, a pétanque championship in Landes, a town near Biarritz, was interrupted when a fight between a player and spectator erupted. Police arrested six members from three generations of the same family for inflicting injuries with bats, iron bars and a metal-capped walking stick.

The President of the International Federation of Pétanque and Provençal Game (FIPJP), Claude Azéma, said an increase in local clubs offering cash prizes was behind the surge in violence.

“We see this kind of violence in the local clubs because more and more they have started to offer money as prizes so people play for cash rather than for the joy of playing,” he said.

He also blamed the consumption of alcohol, which is legally served at all sporting events across France, for violence in the boulodrome.

In June a court sentenced two men, aged 22 and 29, to up to 15 years in prison for killing a man in a boulodrome in Montady, a village near Montpellier, after a fight broke out over an unpaid whisky bill.
(Jeez! :surprised: )

People need to lighten up. It's game of oversized marbles for gawd's sake. Sounds like some of the players are losing theirs ! Can't blame the fundamentalists with all of that booze flowing.