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Sports fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about sports. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

1,766 published reviews in this topic

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ಭಾರತೀಯ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟಿಗ ಹಾರ್ದಿಕ್ ಪಾಂಡ್ಯ ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ರೋಹಿತ್ ಶರ್ಮಾ ಬದಲಿಗೆ ಮುಂಬೈ ಇಂಡಿಯನ್ಸ್ ನಾಯಕನಾಗಿ ನೇಮಕಗೊಂಡ ನಂತರ ಪ್ರೇಕ್ಷಕರು ‘ಮುಂಬೈ ಚಾ ರಾಜಾ ರೋಹಿತ್ ಶರ್ಮಾ’ ಘೋಷಣೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕೂಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾಗ ಅವರ ದೃಶ್ಯಗಳು.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

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Visuals of Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya at the airport while the crowd shouting ‘Mumbai cha Raja Rohit Sharma‘ slogans directed at him after he was named captain of Mumbai Indians replacing Rohit Sharma

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review says the footage of Hardik Pandya at Mumbai airport was from January 2020, before the December 2023 captaincy-change announcement, and the original video had no pro-Rohit slogans. It concludes that the viral clip’s audio was manipulated, with slogans taken from a separate video of fans chanting for Rohit Sharma.

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Restaurant bill suggesting that Virat Kohli dined on beef at Gordon Ramsay’s renowned restaurant in Florida, USA

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim links a restaurant bill for beef at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant in Florida to Virat Kohli, pairing it with a photo of Kohli seated with his wife and daughter. The review says the bill instead belonged to an American couple who dined at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Atlantic City Hotel and Casino in New Jersey. It reports that the couple misread the menu: Jeffrey Paige expected the Japanese Kobe beef to cost $35 for four ounces, ordered 12 ounces, and received a $600 bill. To trace the bill, the review says it searched relevant keywords and found news reports containing identical bill screenshots. It describes those reports as dating to December 2021 and recounting the couple’s costly order. The review concludes that the bill is unrelated to Kohli and says it found no reports that he dined at the restaurant. The accompanying photo also does not establish the claimed restaurant visit. The review identifies it as a picture Kohli shared on Twitter, showing him having breakfast with his family in Dubai during the ICC T20 World Cup in October 2021. Thus, the bill and family photo concern separate circumstances, and neither supports the post’s attribution of the beef order to Kohli.