Most known dopers either (i) never test positive but eventually confess due to other evidence coming to light and/or due to severe public pressure; or (ii) they do test positive but deny any intent on their part to break the rules and assert that the positive result was caused by contaminated meat, an unregulated supplement, medication, etc.
How about examples of athletes who broke anti-doping rules and immediately fessed up and admitted to their wrongdoing?
Would be cool if people like Kara Goucher or Mary Cain actually tell us the complete story of what was going on behind closed doors too
Martin Fagan
Mo Trafeh (admitted posessing but denied using it).
I don't know if it was right away but Christian Hesch fessed up.
Didn't one of Giambi brothers admit taking PEDs immediately?
When Tyson Fury tested positive for nandolone in 2015 he admitted that he had eaten a lot of uncastrated wild boar he had bought from a farmer. The farmer signed an affidavit even. Yet despite his error, he accepted a two year ban, which was big of him considering he had done nothing wrong.
** caveat: the only problem is now the farmer has come forward and said he was offered 25,000 to lie about selling Fury the uncastrated wild boar. That he was never paid by team Fury and he never actually sold him the uncastrated wild boar. So now Fury is looking at a possible 8 year ban for tampering with the initial investigation.
Can't think of anyone sanctioned who immediately "came clean".
But there is a long list of dopers who fervently denied taking PEDs -- but later admitted it.
I don't think he ever tested positive but the British Javelin Thrower Peter Yates never hid that he took steroids. Sort of an interesting story how he went from a clean non drinking non smoking athlete and went to train with the Olympic champs group who basically laughed at him about being clean. Came back drank, smoked and on steroids' and threw way further.
I seem to recall Cathal Lombard admitting immediately to EPO use after a quick 10,000m
One of Giambi brothers??? wrote:
Didn't one of Giambi brothers admit taking PEDs immediately?
Ask A-Rod's cousin.
blojos wrote:
Would be cool if people like Kara Goucher or Mary Cain actually tell us the complete story of what was going on behind closed doors too
She has its just not what y’all wanted to hear.
Nina Kraft was busted for epo at Ironman Hawaii one year and immediately confessed.
The other interesting thing is once people do confess it is almost always that they only did it once and were miraculously caught the one time they did. So even then the lying continues.
Tyson Gay. He had his excuses but pretty much owned up to it and took his ban.
Andy Pettitte admitted to using HGH to get back from injury.
Tyson Gay did wrote:
Tyson Gay. He had his excuses but pretty much owned up to it and took his ban.
No, we mean with no excuses.
Like — “yeah, y’all got me. I’m sorry. I get pressure to maintain my contracts”
The bigger point is that nearly ever busted lies.
Tyson Fury wrote:
When Tyson Fury tested positive for nandolone in 2015 he admitted that he had eaten a lot of uncastrated wild boar he had bought from a farmer. The farmer signed an affidavit even. Yet despite his error, he accepted a two year ban, which was big of him considering he had done nothing wrong.
** caveat: the only problem is now the farmer has come forward and said he was offered 25,000 to lie about selling Fury the uncastrated wild boar. That he was never paid by team Fury and he never actually sold him the uncastrated wild boar. So now Fury is looking at a possible 8 year ban for tampering with the initial investigation.
I don't really know the Fury story or if that's true, but wouldn't surprise me if tomorrow the food truck owner comes forward saying he stuffed Shelby's burrito.
Jose Canseco
Tyson Fury wrote:
When Tyson Fury tested positive for nandolone in 2015 he admitted that he had eaten a lot of uncastrated wild boar he had bought from a farmer. The farmer signed an affidavit even. Yet despite his error, he accepted a two year ban, which was big of him considering he had done nothing wrong.
** caveat: the only problem is now the farmer has come forward and said he was offered 25,000 to lie about selling Fury the uncastrated wild boar. That he was never paid by team Fury and he never actually sold him the uncastrated wild boar. So now Fury is looking at a possible 8 year ban for tampering with the initial investigation.
It took them 6 years to figure out wild boars aren't raised on farms?
Anyhow I am getting tired of all this slander and bigotry toward uncastrated boars. They beat the odds and escape the snips, but then they get served for dinner anyhow, and to top it off now they're blamed for someone's positive test. Give 'em a break. Let just one of them live a full natural lifespan and die uneaten and unaccused.
TTH wrote:
I seem to recall Cathal Lombard admitting immediately to EPO use after a quick 10,000m
Yes he did when he was tested positive for EPO. He also said that he doped to be on an even playing field with pro runners - he was probably right on that one.
Didn't Mathew Kisorio admit immediately that he was doping when he tested positive for nandralone (the drug Jerry, Shelby and seemingly the entire BTC have never heard about)? He also said that he was doping because basically a ton of other Kenyan pro runners were doping and were not testing positive.
Kelli White