As the saying goes: gambling is a greedy child, a profligate parent.
Where there is gambling, there is fraud.
Sacred sports, including snooker, cannot escape this fate.
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Today we're going to talk about a player in snooker that the world thinks is controversial, Stephen Lee. Stephen Lee, who is now nearly half a hundred years old, was once a fierce player in the snooker world.
In 1992, Stephen Lee became a professional after winning the British Amateur Championship, and from that time until the 1996/97 season, he did not win a ranking championship, but he stumbled to the round of 16 with two ranking rounds and world championships.
It wasn't until the 1998 Snooker Grand Prix that he didn't meet any of the top 16 players in the world rankings, and as a result, he reached the final for the first time in his career, and in the final with Fu Jiajun, he won 9-2, which gave him the first ranking championship.
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After winning the ranking championship for the first time, Stephen Lee repeatedly broke into the top 8 of various ranking competitions, and even entered the final of the Irish Masters, but Fat Lee had an extremely prominent weakness, that is, he would not cherish the situation of leading, could not extend the advantage, led 8-4 in the final, and finally was overturned by Hendry.
But despite this, Stephen Lee reached sixth place in the world ranking that year.
The performance of various events caused fans a headache, and then another drug test incident came the following year, and the hearing made the fat man Lee embarrassed, and he spent too much energy to slide to the eighth place in the world ranking.
Since then, Stephen Lee has not won any other ranking championship except for the Scottish Open, who has won a trophy once. At one point, it slipped outside the world's top 16.
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In the early morning of October 13, 2012, the World Federation of Taiwan issued a statement banning Snooker star Stephen Lee for suspected match-fixing until the results of the investigation were announced or the conclusion of the Taiwan Federation hearings. "Fat Lee" was involved in two matches with abnormal betting odds, and the British police and the Taiwan Federation were involved in the investigation.
On October 12, the latest news from the bookmaker indicated that there was an abnormal bet in the Premier League match between Stephen Lee and Higgins on October 11, when Stephen Lee lost three consecutive sets in a 2-1 lead, which caused a lot of questions.
Ferguson, president of the World Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, passed a resolution banning Stephen Lee. During the investigation, Stephen Lee will be barred from participating in tour events organized by the World Federation of Taiwan.
In September 2013, an independent tribunal found him guilty after the findings found that he had influenced 7 games in 2008 and 2009. He was banned for twelve years, dating back to the day his ban began, which will last until his 50th birthday on October 12, 2024.
He was completely removed from the Snooker Tour and World Rankings in June 2014. Since then, the football world can no longer see the fat man Lee's windy position.
Many well-known players in the world of snooker have been involved in playing match-fixing, and the agent of former world number one John Higgins was involved in the planning of match-fixing, resulting in Higgins being banned for six months and fined 75,000 pounds; and Chinese players Yu Delu and Cao Yupeng were punished for participating in match-fixing.
As the British journalists put it after the Higgins match-fixing case was closed: Higgins may be innocent, but the snooker movement desperately needs to clean up some of the churning sticks.
Gambling is a greedy child, a profligate parent.