What amounts to a doping scandal in the chess world, a Russian grand master refused to produce urine for a doping test. Apparently peeing in a tube is an insult to his intelligence and honor, but hopefully not his manhood.
Professional chess player and grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk faces a two-year ban from the sport after refusing a drug test at Dresden's Chess Olympiad.
He declined to provide a urine sample after losing to American Gata Kamsky. It’s an insult to his intelligence and honour, claims the chess community.
Ivanchuk may be the first chess player to be caught up in a doping row, but he's certainly not the first sports star to do so, as this rogue's gallery proves:
The photo shows Vassily pondering how pissed off he is about the urine sample. If he has nothing to hide why didn't he just take his king's rook and pee?