Bicycling.com has an article today about the most memorable excuses made by cyclists busted for PED's. Of course, Tyler Hamilton's in utero twin is on the list. Amazingly, some got off the hook with these lame fabrications.
http://www.bicycling.com/culture/news/most-memorable-doping-excuses-cycling
What are the best excuses from the running world?
Most memorable PED-bust excuses
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Asthma Inhalers
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Dennis Mitchell: five beers and sex four times FTW.
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I just can't get my hands around your question.
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Toothpaste?
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Penis enhancer
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Altitude camps.
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Just testing Androgel on my son. Everyone does it.
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Stagger Lee wrote:
Dennis Mitchell: five beers and sex four times FTW.
Some records take decades to be broken because the performance is just so far ahead of their time. This is one of them, like the Flojo's 100m of PED excuses.
The full excuse was: "five bottles of beer and sex with his wife at least four times . . . it was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat" -
My coach says I only take approved supplements. My coach only sends me used books and magazines. At the end of the day, the coach is the boss and I do whatever he tells me.
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Running I don't know, but French tennis player Richard Gasquet had a good excuse for testing positive for cocaine: He went to a nightclub and kissed a girl who had apparently cocaine on her lips.
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"I passed every test. I'm on my bike, what are you on?"
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Ate meat from an animal on steroids.
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Didn't someone claim performance of an oral nature on his wife resulted in a positive?
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After getting my star pupil to take off his shirt outside media to give him a shoulder rub. Yeah, the same thing I said was preposterous in the Gatlin example. That's my story, uh huh