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

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Fact CrescendoSports

हाल ही में हुये वर्ल्ड कप के बाद डेविड वार्नर ने विज्ञापन के लिये रखी गयी इजराइल निर्मित कोका कोला की बोतल को सामने से हटाकर पीछे रख दिया क्योंकि वे ऐसा कर फिलिस्तीन का समर्थन कर रहे है।

Publisher’s rating: False

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaSports

ලෝක කුසලානයෙන් පසු විරාට් කෝලිගේ නිවසට ගිනි තැබූ අවස්ථාවක වීඩියෝවක් ද?

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerned social-media posts and a video said to show Indian cricket fans setting Virat Kohli’s home on fire after India lost the 2023 Cricket World Cup final. The investigation checked whether Indian media had reported such an attack and consulted Fact Crescendo’s Indian team. It says neither found reports of a fire at Kohli’s home or at any other Indian cricketer’s home: “එවැනි පුවතක් වාර්තා වී නොතිබූ අතර කිසිදු ඉන්දීය ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායමේ ක්‍රීඩකයන්ගේ නිවසක ගිනි තැබීමක් වූ බවට කිසිදු වාර්තාවක් නොවීය.” The review also investigated the video itself, rather than relying only on the absence of news reports. It says the footage was submitted to a reverse-image search, which led to a video on Pexels, a stock-media website: “ඒ අනුව අනාවරණය වූයේ, Stock image/video (ඡායාරූප / වීඩියෝ එකතුවක් අඩංගු) නොමිලේ ලබා ගත හැකි, Pexels නමැති වෙබ් අඩවියකින් ඉහත වීඩියෝ දර්ශන ලබාගෙන තිබු බවයි.” The article reports that the Pexels video was first uploaded on 17 October 2020, before the 2023 tournament, so it could not document a fire at Kohli’s home after that final. The investigation therefore distinguishes the footage’s actual provenance and date from the claim attached to it on social media. Its conclusion is that the fire video was stock footage, not evidence that Kohli’s home was set alight after the World Cup. The supplied excerpt does not identify where the fire shown in the stock footage occurred, so that detail cannot be established from this evidence.

dpaSports

Spieler der U-17 Nationalmannschaft zeigen den "IS-Gruß".

Publisher’s rating: Nein, denn beiden Spieler Almugera Kabar und Paris Brunner zeigen auf Fayssal Harchaoui, der neben ihnen steht. Der «Tauhid-Finger», der als Gruß oder Zeichen von Anhängern des politischen Islams und des Islamischen Staats verwendet wird, sieht ganz anders aus.

The claim concerns a DFB Junioren team photo posted after Germany’s U-17 side beat the United States 3–2 in a World Cup round-of-16 match. It alleged that two players were making an “IS greeting.” The review identifies the players as Almugera Kabar and Paris Brunner, and the teammate beside them as Fayssal Harchaoui: “Das Bild zeigt (von links) die Spieler Charles Herrmann, Almugera Kabar, Paris Brunner und Fayssal Harchaoui.” It reports that the two players in the middle point toward the teammate on the right: “Die beiden Spieler in der Mitte zeigen mit ihrem Finger zu dem Teamkollegen auf der rechten Seite.” The review distinguishes the gesture in the image from the Tauhid finger, which it says was what users appeared to mean by an “IS greeting.” It describes that gesture as having three fingers bent and the index finger pointing straight upward, with the palm facing outward: “Dabei werden drei Finger angewinkelt und der Zeigefinger zeigt senkrecht nach oben. Die Handfläche ist zudem vom Körper weg nach außen gerichtet.” By contrast, Kabar and Brunner point sideways, and their palms face inward toward their own bodies: “Im Gegensatz dazu zeigen die beiden deutschen Spieler mit ihren Zeigefingern zur Seite und nicht nach oben. Zudem ist ihre Handfläche nach innen ausgerichtet”. On those visual differences and the direction of the pointing, the review concludes that the players were pointing at Harchaoui, rather than making the alleged gesture. It says the finger-pointing was more likely intended to acknowledge Harchaoui’s performance in the preceding match: “Dieser Fingerzeig soll eher die Leistung von Fayssal Harchaoui im vorangegangenen Spiel würdigen.”

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaSports

රිකී පොන්ටින් , ඉන්දීය ක්‍රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය විවේචනය කරමින් ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදු කළා ද?

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The claim concerned a social-media post attributing a sharp criticism of India and the BCCI to former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, supposedly in comments to Fox Cricket after Australia’s win in the 2023 One Day International World Cup final. The post said Australia’s victory was “a win of justice against cricket mafia” and that money and power could not win India a World Cup. The review identifies that alleged quotation and its claimed Fox Cricket attribution as the subject of its investigation. (The review’s excerpt describes the final but does not give its date.)