The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word OLYMPICS
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More clues leading to the result OLYMPICS
- Slimy cop running in international competition
- Simply awful catching cold after 29 competition
- Slimy cop playing games
- Sporting meet worried slimy cop
- Policy’s revised about masculine sporting event
- Policy MS rewritten every four years?
- Slimy cop ruins competition
- In essence Kom's the third one in simply fantastic sporting event
- Re-encoded my OS clip for the event with a Latin motto
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "sporting event" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sporting event = olympics.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.