Over the years, there have been some entertaining stories that have been used to get people off (or at least try) from positive doping tests - from a gay man making out with a female craigslist encounter to five bottles of beer and sex at least four times with the wife. We've go a new doozy for you.
This must be why Russians are guilty, but USA people are innocent. Siberian weather is conducive to Eskimo-style kissing, not passionate. And the frequency is lower due to alternating back and forth with vodka swilling.
Thanks for clearing up the Alex Salazar situation. I saw the brief USADA summary that mentioned him/her giving testimony and I began to wonder if Roberts was a secret member of the ORPJT.
I loooove this!
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. He's obviously guilty and lying about (come on, really?) or too stupid to be engaged in the USADA testing system.
Unless his ridiculous story can be verified, the guy should be banned. There shouldn't be a pass for good story telling.
I have no idea whether to believe this excuse or not. But, I think NO MATTER WHAT the reason, there has to be a ban of some duration for ANY positive test. Athletes have to be held responsible for what is in their body be it due to tainted beef, kissing someone on medication, or whatever crazy circumstances that caused it to get there. I say a minimum three month penalty no matter how convincing the explanation. As a professional athlete, part of your job is to make sure nothing on the WADA banned substances list ends up in your body. Failure to do this must be penalized. I would also add that I think in both this case and the Ajee Wilson case, USADA is making these exceptions in order to keep these athletes in the World Champs. I bet if these positive tests had come in October they would have been handed 3-6 months bans.
Rubbin' noses like eskimoses wrote:
This must be why Russians are guilty, but USA people are innocent. Siberian weather is conducive to Eskimo-style kissing, not passionate. And the frequency is lower due to alternating back and forth with vodka swilling.
+1
"He admitted that though he was taking several supplements, he did not declare any of them on his doping control form."
Indeed, that can always be "back-dated" if necessary. What's the point in even having the space on the DC form in the first place, as no one takes it seriously (except NOP it seems).
Frequent, passionate kissing while she had a sinus infection - gross.
Ultradude wrote:
I have no idea whether to believe this excuse or not. But, I think NO MATTER WHAT the reason, there has to be a ban of some duration for ANY positive test. Athletes have to be held responsible for what is in their body be it due to tainted beef, kissing someone on medication, or whatever crazy circumstances that caused it to get there. I say a minimum three month penalty no matter how convincing the explanation. As a professional athlete, part of your job is to make sure nothing on the WADA banned substances list ends up in your body. Failure to do this must be penalized. I would also add that I think in both this case and the Ajee Wilson case, USADA is making these exceptions in order to keep these athletes in the World Champs. I bet if these positive tests had come in October they would have been handed 3-6 months bans.
+1
Except if we're being cynical they'll just hold on to the test results until after the WC and ban them then. Unless you're talking about a 3-6 month nullification on all results from the date they tested positive?
"there is no information on the amount of saliva traded during a kiss"Supposedly, about 9 ml.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love/body-on-kissingYour salivary glands begin their own workout, pumping out extra spit. During a real tongue twist, about nine milliliters of your saliva finds its way into his mouth (and vice versa). T
Ultradude wrote:
I have no idea whether to believe this excuse or not. But, I think NO MATTER WHAT the reason, there has to be a ban of some duration for ANY positive test. Athletes have to be held responsible for what is in their body be it due to tainted beef, kissing someone on medication, or whatever crazy circumstances that caused it to get there. I say a minimum three month penalty no matter how convincing the explanation. As a professional athlete, part of your job is to make sure nothing on the WADA banned substances list ends up in your body. Failure to do this must be penalized. I would also add that I think in both this case and the Ajee Wilson case, USADA is making these exceptions in order to keep these athletes in the World Champs. I bet if these positive tests had come in October they would have been handed 3-6 months bans.
What if you're in the warm up area at the Olympic Trials and I run up to you and hit you in the buttocks with a syringe full of steroids? Should that athlete be banned when they inevitably test positive?
Jeff Wigand wrote:
Ultradude wrote:I have no idea whether to believe this excuse or not. But, I think NO MATTER WHAT the reason, there has to be a ban of some duration for ANY positive test. Athletes have to be held responsible for what is in their body be it due to tainted beef, kissing someone on medication, or whatever crazy circumstances that caused it to get there. I say a minimum three month penalty no matter how convincing the explanation. As a professional athlete, part of your job is to make sure nothing on the WADA banned substances list ends up in your body. Failure to do this must be penalized. I would also add that I think in both this case and the Ajee Wilson case, USADA is making these exceptions in order to keep these athletes in the World Champs. I bet if these positive tests had come in October they would have been handed 3-6 months bans.
What if you're in the warm up area at the Olympic Trials and I run up to you and hit you in the buttocks with a syringe full of steroids? Should that athlete be banned when they inevitably test positive?
Definitely. Otherwise, an athlete could use steroids for months in training and then adopt the strategy of having their friend stick them in the butt with the steroid-filled syringe to get away with it.
Waiting for someone to plead that they accidentally brushed their teeth with their coach's Androgel....
Is this a joke?
Oh no, it's just USADA letting yet another drug cheat off the hook. They've no shame whatsoever.
Nothing new here.
Oh for fork sake.
Ultradude wrote:
Definitely. Otherwise, an athlete could use steroids for months in training and then adopt the strategy of having their friend stick them in the butt with the steroid-filled syringe to get away with it.
That's one way for a fourth placer to knock a rival off a team.
Roberts is yet another Mark Wwtmore athlete.
Just more paper work wrote:
"He admitted that though he was taking several supplements, he did not declare any of them on his doping control form."Indeed, that can always be "back-dated" if necessary. What's the point in even having the space on the DC form in the first place, as no one takes it seriously (except NOP it seems).
It is in no way mandatory to put down any supplements at all on your doping control form.
My understanding is that if you put down a supplement and end up with a positive sample you can then claim a "tainted supplement" excuse. You would need more than just that to win, but if you do not put a supplement down on your DC, you basically forfeit a tainted supplement claim.
This also came into play during the Sharapova appeal. The fact that she did not put down meldonium on her doping control form (it includes meds as well as supplements) was taken as evidence that she was concealing and taking it for the purpose of performance enhancement.