42nd World Bridge Teams Championships
Chennai, India • 26 September – 10 October 2015
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The 42nd World Bridge Teams Championships and the 10th World Transnational Open Teams Championship will be held at the ITC Grand Chola Hotel, Chennai (former Madras), India.
October 2nd, 2015
A high court battle is raging between British bridge players and the Sport England over whether the card game bridge, popular with world figures and celebrities from Winston Churchill to Omar Sharif, should be a sport.
For the English Bridge Union, the body representing the card game in England, if chess, darts model aircraft flying, ballooning, angling, billiards and snooker are considered sports then bridge should too.
The high court will not rule on whether the card game should be a sport but just whether Sport England should revisit its decision. If bridge is decided to be a sport then it could be granted a certain amount of public funds for tournaments and to prop up bridge bodies.
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