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02-22-2018, 12:22 PM
WORST EXCUSES OF ALL TIME FOR FAILING A DOPING TEST
DENNIS MITCHELL
US sprinter Dennis Mitchell.
The drug: Testosterone
His excuse: ‘I had too much sex with my wife.’
He said he was getting intimate with his wife more than usual because it was her birthday.
Result: Banned by IAAF for two years
RICHARD GASQUET
France’s player Richard Gasquet is not the first tennis player to succumb to ‘white line fever’.
The drug: cocaine
His excuse: ‘I kissed a girl in a nightclub and it went into my system’. Frenchman says a girl called Pamela that he met in a Miami nightclub must have passed it on.
Result: A 2 and a half month ban due to the minute amount found in his urine … but a stern warning that another positive test is a life ban
SHANE WARNE
Apparently Shane Warne’s ‘mum did it’.
The drug: Diuretic
His excuse: His mum’s fault. She gave it to him because he was overweight.
Result? Stood down from taking part in the 2003 Cricket World Cup as part of a 12 month suspension.
LASHAWN MERRITT
Athlete LaShawn Merritt wanted to go faster and be bigger.
The drug: Dehydroepiandrosterone and Pregnenolone
His excuse: Not reading the ingredient to his penis enlargement medication. “[It was a] foolish, immature and egotistical mistake ... any penalty I may receive for my action will not overshadow the embarrassment and humiliation I feel,” he said at the time
Result: Banned for two years which was subsequently reduced to 21 months
PETR KORDA
Petr Korda loves a schnitty.
The drug: Nandralone (steroids)
His excuse: I just like veal too much … only problem was that level of the drug would have meant he’d eaten 40 calves a day for 20 years.
Result: Korda received a 12 month ban
TYLER HAMILTON
Cyclist Tyler Hamilton raised chimerism as a defence.
The drug: Hamilton was found to have a ‘foreign blood population’ a common sign of blood doping
His excuse: An unborn twin lives inside me. He said foreign cells were found in his system because he might be a Chimera — an organism with two or more populations of genetically distinct cells, produced by a twin brother who died before birth.
Result: Hamilton received a two-year ban
GAI WATERHOUSE HORSE ‘ LOVE YOU HONEY’
Gai Waterhouse paid the price for her staff visiting ‘a known drug den’. Picture Jay Town.
The drug: Cocaine
The excuse: Waterhouse pleaded guilty to the charge, however she told stewards the Regent Hotel, close to her Randwick stables, was “a known drug den” and that employee Roy Storch may have come into contact with the drug there (he denied using it besides two previous occasions he had admitted to).
The result: Gai Waterhouse was fined $15,000
DANIEL PLAZA
Daniel Plaza clearly believes in the saying ‘A happy wife — a happy life’.
The drug: Nandrolone
His excuse: Too much oral sex with my pregnant wife caused the race walker to absorb the steroid, which pregnant women may produce naturally.
The result? A two-year ban but he was then exonerated in July 2006
JUSTIN GATLIN
Justin Gatlin was banned in 2001 and 2006.
The drug: Testosterone
His excuse: My masseuse rubbed it into my buttocks without my knowing.
The result? An eight-year ban reduced to four years on appeal.
JAVIER SOTOMAYOR
Javier Sotomayor was the victim of the CIA ... maybe.
The drug: Cocaine
His excuse: He claimed sabotage by either the CIA or the anti-Castro mafia. “I know that every time there is a doping case, everyone generally says they are innocent,” he said. “But in my case I really am innocent”. This was followed by Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader going on national television to launch an impassioned defence and among his claims was that the CIA had spiked Sotomayor’s sample.
The result? A two-year ban — this was later shortened to one year allowing him to compete at the Sydney Olympics.
AMERICAN sprinter Gil Roberts,
who took gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics on the men’s 4x400 relay, won an appeal of his doping ban after a US arbitration panel agreed with his “passionate kissing” defence.
Roberts tested positive for trace amounts of probenecid, a masking agent, and was suspended for four years last May, but an arbitrator overturned the ban last July, backing Roberts’s claim that the positive test was caused by passionate kissing.
Roberts said his girlfriend, Alex Salazar, was sick and had taken sinus medication for her illness, drugs that entered his body after frequent passionate kissing.
A three-person arbitration panel sided with Roberts in denying an appeal of his overturned ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling it most likely “the presence of probenecid in the athlete’s system resulted from kissing his girlfriend.”
“There could have been tongue kissing, but it was more that she kissed me so soon after taking the medicine,” Roberts told the New York Times.
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DENNIS MITCHELL
US sprinter Dennis Mitchell.
The drug: Testosterone
His excuse: ‘I had too much sex with my wife.’
He said he was getting intimate with his wife more than usual because it was her birthday.
Result: Banned by IAAF for two years
RICHARD GASQUET
France’s player Richard Gasquet is not the first tennis player to succumb to ‘white line fever’.
The drug: cocaine
His excuse: ‘I kissed a girl in a nightclub and it went into my system’. Frenchman says a girl called Pamela that he met in a Miami nightclub must have passed it on.
Result: A 2 and a half month ban due to the minute amount found in his urine … but a stern warning that another positive test is a life ban
SHANE WARNE
Apparently Shane Warne’s ‘mum did it’.
The drug: Diuretic
His excuse: His mum’s fault. She gave it to him because he was overweight.
Result? Stood down from taking part in the 2003 Cricket World Cup as part of a 12 month suspension.
LASHAWN MERRITT
Athlete LaShawn Merritt wanted to go faster and be bigger.
The drug: Dehydroepiandrosterone and Pregnenolone
His excuse: Not reading the ingredient to his penis enlargement medication. “[It was a] foolish, immature and egotistical mistake ... any penalty I may receive for my action will not overshadow the embarrassment and humiliation I feel,” he said at the time
Result: Banned for two years which was subsequently reduced to 21 months
PETR KORDA
Petr Korda loves a schnitty.
The drug: Nandralone (steroids)
His excuse: I just like veal too much … only problem was that level of the drug would have meant he’d eaten 40 calves a day for 20 years.
Result: Korda received a 12 month ban
TYLER HAMILTON
Cyclist Tyler Hamilton raised chimerism as a defence.
The drug: Hamilton was found to have a ‘foreign blood population’ a common sign of blood doping
His excuse: An unborn twin lives inside me. He said foreign cells were found in his system because he might be a Chimera — an organism with two or more populations of genetically distinct cells, produced by a twin brother who died before birth.
Result: Hamilton received a two-year ban
GAI WATERHOUSE HORSE ‘ LOVE YOU HONEY’
Gai Waterhouse paid the price for her staff visiting ‘a known drug den’. Picture Jay Town.
The drug: Cocaine
The excuse: Waterhouse pleaded guilty to the charge, however she told stewards the Regent Hotel, close to her Randwick stables, was “a known drug den” and that employee Roy Storch may have come into contact with the drug there (he denied using it besides two previous occasions he had admitted to).
The result: Gai Waterhouse was fined $15,000
DANIEL PLAZA
Daniel Plaza clearly believes in the saying ‘A happy wife — a happy life’.
The drug: Nandrolone
His excuse: Too much oral sex with my pregnant wife caused the race walker to absorb the steroid, which pregnant women may produce naturally.
The result? A two-year ban but he was then exonerated in July 2006
JUSTIN GATLIN
Justin Gatlin was banned in 2001 and 2006.
The drug: Testosterone
His excuse: My masseuse rubbed it into my buttocks without my knowing.
The result? An eight-year ban reduced to four years on appeal.
JAVIER SOTOMAYOR
Javier Sotomayor was the victim of the CIA ... maybe.
The drug: Cocaine
His excuse: He claimed sabotage by either the CIA or the anti-Castro mafia. “I know that every time there is a doping case, everyone generally says they are innocent,” he said. “But in my case I really am innocent”. This was followed by Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader going on national television to launch an impassioned defence and among his claims was that the CIA had spiked Sotomayor’s sample.
The result? A two-year ban — this was later shortened to one year allowing him to compete at the Sydney Olympics.
AMERICAN sprinter Gil Roberts,
who took gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics on the men’s 4x400 relay, won an appeal of his doping ban after a US arbitration panel agreed with his “passionate kissing” defence.
Roberts tested positive for trace amounts of probenecid, a masking agent, and was suspended for four years last May, but an arbitrator overturned the ban last July, backing Roberts’s claim that the positive test was caused by passionate kissing.
Roberts said his girlfriend, Alex Salazar, was sick and had taken sinus medication for her illness, drugs that entered his body after frequent passionate kissing.
A three-person arbitration panel sided with Roberts in denying an appeal of his overturned ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling it most likely “the presence of probenecid in the athlete’s system resulted from kissing his girlfriend.”
“There could have been tongue kissing, but it was more that she kissed me so soon after taking the medicine,” Roberts told the New York Times.
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