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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

FACTLYSports

Video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi playing cricket

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a social-media video said to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi playing cricket. FACTLY’s review identifies the man in that video as former cricketer Yograj Singh, Yuvraj Singh’s father, rather than Modi. Its conclusion rests on tracing the same video to Yograj Singh’s own Instagram account and comparing it with a separate, documented occasion when Modi batted. FACTLY says it found the same video on Yograj Singh’s official Instagram handle and that he shared it on 14 March 2022. The review also describes a 2013 event: at the inauguration of a new cricket stadium in Rajkot, Modi tried batting, and he later shared a picture of his batting pose on Facebook on 6 January 2013. The review notes that the pictured pose showed Modi as a left-hander, then uses the difference between that separate image and the man in the circulated video, alongside the video’s provenance, to distinguish the two. The review’s evidence therefore addresses the identity of the person in the specific circulated video, not whether Modi has ever batted. It reports that the video was being shared with a misleading attribution and that the person shown was Yograj Singh.

Fact CrescendoSports

Ronaldo ចូល​ចិត្ត​ហូប​ម្ហូប​ថៃ។ ប៉ុន្តែ គាត់​មិន​ចូល​ចិត្ត​ម្ហូប​ខ្មែរ​ដ៏​កខ្វក់​នោះ​ឡើយ។

Publisher’s rating: Altered

The reviewed post paired a claim about Cristiano Ronaldo’s food preferences with a photo said to show him eating mango sticky rice. Fact Crescendo’s investigation addressed whether that image genuinely showed the dish on his plate; it did not establish what foods Ronaldo likes or dislikes. The review reports that a reverse image search led to an earlier version of the photo, in which the plate contained a meal but no mango sticky rice. The review traces the original image to Ronaldo’s Instagram account, where it says the photo was posted on September 23, 2016. It also says the same image appeared in a 2018 Sun article, which described Ronaldo’s diet and captioned the photo as showing him cutting back on processed and sugary foods. Fact Crescendo compared that image with the separate mango sticky rice photo and concluded that the social-media image had been digitally edited. Thus, the image does not support the post’s suggestion that Ronaldo was pictured eating Thai mango sticky rice; the review offers no direct evidence about his preferences toward Thai or Khmer food.

dpaSports

Dit is een wedstrijd van Jumbo Nederland.

Publisher’s rating: Dit is geen echte wedstrijd van Jumbo. Er valt dan ook niets te winnen. Het gaat hier om een voorbeeld van phishing.

The claim concerns a Facebook post offering prizes to people who responded quickly, purportedly on behalf of Jumbo. The review says the post promised a prize to the first 200 commenters, while the prize was not initially specified. It investigated whether the contest was genuinely organized by the supermarket chain, rather than treating the page’s use of Jumbo’s name and images as proof of authenticity. (S1: “De eerste tweehonderd mensen die reageren op het bericht, winnen een prijs. Wat de prijs is, is niet meteen duidelijk. Maar is deze wedstrijd wel afkomstig van Jumbo?”) The review describes several checks of the Facebook page: it had been created on 9 April 2022, had only nine followers, lacked contact details, and had posted only the contest. It contrasts this with Jumbo’s official page, which could be reached via the company website, had a verification badge, and listed extensive contact information. These details led the review to identify the contest page as a deceptive one, not an authentic Jumbo promotion. (S1: “Zo is de pagina pas aangemaakt op 9 april 2022 en wordt deze slechts door negen mensen gevolgd. Er zijn ook geen contactgegevens te vinden. Ook opvallend is dat de pagina maar één bericht heeft, dat van de wedstrijd.”; “Deze pagina heeft naast de naam een verificatiebadge staan. Dit is een symbool van Facebook om aan te geven dat de pagina authentiek is. Ook zijn er uitgebreide contactgegevens te vinden op de pagina.”) The review also followed the post’s described participation process. Commenters received an immediate private message, were told the prize was €500, and were asked to share the promotion before receiving a form link. The review says that link began with sites.google.com, whereas Jumbo stated that its official websites begin with Jumbo.com or hallo.jumbo.com. It therefore concluded that the process was intended to obtain data or push advertising under false pretenses, rather than award a prize. The excerpt does not say that the link was still active when checked; it says it was no longer active at the time of writing. (S1: “Wie reageert krijgt meteen een privébericht. Dit gebeurt zo snel, dat het om een geautomatiseerde reactie moet gaan. De prijs blijkt 500 euro te zijn, die verkregen kan worden door de actie te delen op het eigen profiel en dat te bevestigen in het gesprek.”; “De URL begint met sites.google.com. Jumbo geeft echter zelf aan dat alle officiële websites van de keten met Jumbo.com of hallo.jumbo.com beginnen.”; “De link die hierbij wordt gestuurd, is op het moment van schrijven niet meer actief.”)

dpaSports

95 van 154 wielrenners storten in tijdens Parijs-Nice.

Publisher’s rating: Het bericht is onzin. Renners zijn niet 'ingestort', maar haakten om uiteenlopende redenen af. Vooral verschillende vormen van griepverschijnselen worden genoemd. Frontnieuws, waar het artikel vandaan komt, deelt nog desinformatie over toegenomen hartproblemen, maar daarvan lijkt geen van de wielrenners last te hebben gehad. Er lijkt tevens geen enkele link met coronavaccins te zijn.