It was today announced that snooker has been unsuccessful with its bid to make the final short-list of potential sports to be included at the 2020 Olympic Games, with only eight of the previously listed 26 candidates now progressing to the next stage of the selection process.
The WPBSA have today announced that Irish amateur John Sutton has been suspended from snooker for a period of six years, after he was found to be in breach of rules relating to corruption and the misuse of inside information relating to his match with Jamie Burnett at last season’s International Championship qualifiers.
The WPBSA statement follows:
Following the success of the 2014/15 Cue Zone Into Schools Sheffield Inter Schools Competition, the WPBSA is launching the 2015/16 championship.
The WPBSA is hosting the first National Snooker Disability Day in Sheffield tomorrow (Saturday).
The activities will take place in Cue Zone in the Winter Garden, close to the Crucible Theatre where the Betfred World Championship is being staged.
As a result of suspicious betting patterns on the match between John Sutton and Jamie Burnett at the International Championship in Barnsley on 24th September 2014, Nigel Mawer, the Chairman of the WPBSA Disciplinary Committee, launched an investigation supported by the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) and the Gambling Commission SBIU .
Some important news from the WPBSA this week, as their coaching teams have announced the details and dates for their coaching courses in 2015.
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As some readers may have already seen on Twitter during the past few days, in what is an exciting development for me personally and hopefully for those of you who enjoy reading this website, I will now also be blogging for the WPBSA with immediate effect.
In particular, the blog will initially concentrate on the various ranking battles that will run during the course of the season, while I also hope to be able to work with the WPBSA to provide fans and players alike with further resources via their website going forwards.
Do not worry however – normal service will be maintained here at PSB and this blog will continue to provide the same level of analysis, news and stories from the sport as has been the case during the past six years.
There will though be different articles to read over at my new WPBSA blog, which you can read by clicking here, including my latest piece explaining why Neil Robertson will return to the world number one ranking after this weekend’s Lisbon Open.
