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Werbeniuk was ranked as high as 8th in the world in 1983 and reached the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship four times before propranolol was banned in snooker competition, as it was classified as a performance-enhancing drug by the International Olympic Committee, the anti-doping rules of which were adopted by World Snooker because snooker is expected to become an Olympic sport.
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Werbeniuk and was
William Alexander " Bill " Werbeniuk (; 14 January 1947 – 20 January 2003 ) was a Canadian professional snooker and pool player.
Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches – up to 30 pints of lager per day.
Werbeniuk attempted to stretch across the table, but due to his size was having some difficulty.
Werbeniuk insisted that his use was medicinal only and under doctor's orders, but was fined and sanctioned anyway.
Werbeniuk was mentioned on the May 16th 2009 episode of the BBC Radio 5 Live comedy-sports punditry programme Fighting Talk ; when the panel were asked by host Colin Murray to mention an athlete with " poor personal hygiene ", Anglo-German comedian Henning Wehn offered Werbeniuk as an answer, but pronounced it " Billy Verbeniuk " ( last name pronounced ), much to the shock and amusement of Murray and the rest of the panel ( Sue Mott and Martin Kelner ).
He went a step further in 1981, beating John Spencer 13 – 11 and Bill Werbeniuk 13 – 10 before being surprisingly beaten by fellow Welshman Doug Mountjoy in the semi-finals in what was Mountjoy's best ever World Championship performance.
Werbeniuk and reached
Bill Werbeniuk reached the only final of his career, but lost 5 – 9 against Steve Davis.
Werbeniuk and before
In January 1980, Mans defeated Bill Werbeniuk 3 – 0 and John Spencer 3 – 2 before losing 4 – 2 to Alex Higgins in the final of the Padmore / Super Crystalite event held at the Gala Baths, West Bromwich.
Werbeniuk and snooker
* January 20-Bill Werbeniuk, snooker player ( born 1947 )
Werbeniuk and by
In another instance, playing against Joe Johnson, Werbeniuk made what the announcer termed the " pot of the century " when he a long red by the cue ball so that it bounced in front of and over an interposing red, knocking the red in.
Reardon regained the title in 1978 winning it for the sixth and final time by beating Doug Mountjoy 13 – 9 ( after trailing 7 – 2 ), Bill Werbeniuk 13 – 6, Eddie Charlton 18 – 14 and finally Perrie Mans 25 – 18 in the final.
Werbeniuk and which
Werbeniuk pioneered the style of shot in which a is hit powerfully, with the hit enough to all the way back into.
was and ranked
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The population at the 2001 census was 31, 705 ( ranked 13th largest in Wales ).
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Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time.
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The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.
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As of 2009 the city was ranked Europe's third and one of the world's most successful as a city brand.
At the same time, the city was ranked Europe's fourth best city for business and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17 % per year.
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Cambridge was ranked as one of the most liberal cities in America.
In the latest ( 2011 ) Academic Ranking of World Universities, the university was ranked between places 201-300 of all universities in the world and at the same time by the QS World University Rankings the university was ranked 202nd in the world ( overall ),
was and high
Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
it was perhaps 80 feet high and had been artfully constructed of logs.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.
Delphine was a pace-setter in high society.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.
From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.
A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.
It was a high mark for Mama.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.
By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.
When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.
Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.
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