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There’s more to sport than fist bumps, empty stadia and flouting quarantine regulations. Test your familiarity with sport’s rich tapestry by taking our quiz of the 2020 sporting year.

1 The Last Dance, the 10-part Netflix series about basketball megastar Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls dynasty, was a godsend for sports-starved fans during the coronavirus hiatus. Much discussion centred on the pale liquid that Jordan sipped during interviews. Was it:

. Cough medicine.. Herbaltea.. Tequila.. New Zealand sauvignon blanc.

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