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  2. Unsportsmanlike conduct - Wikipedia

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    A yellow card being given in a game of handball. Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called untrustworthy behaviour or ungentlemanly fraudulent or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship or anti fair-play) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct.

  3. Sportsmanship - Wikipedia

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    In most, if not all sports, players at the elite level set the standards on sportsmanship and whether they like it or not, they are seen as leaders and role models in society. [ 5 ] Since every sport is rule-driven, the most common offence of bad sportsmanship is the act of cheating or breaking the rules to gain an unfair advantage; this is ...

  4. List of Olympic Games scandals, controversies and incidents

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    Richard McLaren published two reports in 2016 claiming that from "at least late 2011 to 2015" more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports, including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports, benefited from a doping cover-up. [191] As of 25 December 2015, 43 Russian athletes who competed in Sochi have been disqualified, with 13 medals ...

  5. Foul (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    A personal foul is the most common type of foul. It results from personal contact between two opposing players. Basketball features constant motion, and contact between opposing players is unavoidable, but significant contact that is the fault of illegal conduct by one opponent is a foul against that player.

  6. Book review - Wikipedia

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    Books can be reviewed for printed periodicals, magazines, and newspapers, as school work, or for book websites on the Internet. A book review's length may vary from a single paragraph to a substantial essay. Such a review may evaluate the book based on personal taste. Reviewers may use the occasion of a book review for an extended essay that ...

  7. Paris Olympics: USA's Emma Navarro tells China's Qinwen Zheng ...

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    Paris Olympics: USA's Emma Navarro tells China's Qinwen Zheng 'I didn’t respect her as a competitor' in post-match exchange

  8. NCAA putting renewed emphasis on sportsmanship in women's ...

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    After a season that saw over a 33% increase in technical fouls, women's college basketball is putting a renewed emphasis on sportsmanship this year. Last season, there were 830 total technical ...

  9. Gamesmanship - Wikipedia

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    Feigning, exaggerating or drawing out an injury is a common strategy in association football to draw out time and an example of gamesmanship. Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport.