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18th October 1972: The Rovers Return regulars competed against a team from the Flying Horse in a pub olympics competition. The games were darts (Betty Turpin), dominoes (Ena Sharples), crib (Jacko Ford), billiards (Len Fairclough) and beer drinking (Stan Ogden). The scores were neck and neck with only one result to be decided - the beer drinking challenge between Stan and Johnny Owen, and Stan was disadvantaged by the fact that Len and Ray Langton had given him alcohol poisoning the day before to sabotage him as they had bet against him. Even this wasn't enough to deter Weatherfield's biggest drinker and he came out on top, with Johnny eventually giving up when he got to the point where he could barely stand up.
 * For more information see Episode 1227 (18th October 1972).