(Tennis)Gasquet Is Cleared to Play Again(Believed him that he ingested cocaine by kissing a woman)

[JonLP24]

Richard Gasquet of France, who was barred from competition after a positive drug test, is free to rejoin the ATP Tour since an International Tennis Federation panel agreed with him that he had inadvertently ingested trace amounts of cocaine while kissing a woman.

Gasquet, ranked 32nd in the world, was suspended in May after he pulled out of a tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla., citing a shoulder injury. A urine sample he provided at the tournament tested positive for cocaine.

Although Gasquet, 23, was at fault for exposing himself to contamination at a nightclub, “that fault was not significant,” the three-lawyer panel ruled today. Gasquet had told the panel that he took in the cocaine while kissing a woman, whom he identified only as Pamela, The Associated Press reported.

In light of those circumstances, the panel barred him for 2 months 15 days, ending today, rather than banishing him for one year, which it said would have been “unjust and disproportionate.”
http://straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/gasquet-is-cleared-to-play/

[Mr. Ected]

1. Oh, come on. We can trust the French testing system.

August 27, 2005

Accused of EPO doping by the French cycling daily L'Équipe in a four page story on Aug. 23, cyclist Lance Armstrong appeared on CNN's Larry King Live TV show Aug. 25, saying he did not trust the French testers or the French testing system, and that his urine was manipulated to falsely accuse him of doping.

Dr. Christiane Ayotte, director of a Montreal doping detection laboratory said that ethically critical and important scientific questions were raised by the EPO doping allegation against seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong.

USA Cycling official Gerard Bisceglia said these L'Équipe charges were unfair and lacked credibility. Bisceglia is chief executive of USA Cycling, principle authority over Armstrong for cycling sports in the United States.

L'Équipe released Paris lab data allegedly finding banned EPO in five year old samples of Armstrong's urine, originally taken after he won the 1999 Tour de France. No official source would confirm medical identification of Armstrong as provider of the anonymously tested urine, and to do so would be a violation of World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) regulations.

Armstrong suggested motivation for such manipulation is a French national hatred of all non-French sport winners, and specifically because a French rider has not won the Tour de France for a quarter century. As evidence of malice toward him, Armstrong cited a French newspaper poll in which he was named the third most hated winning sportsman in France.

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2. Has does Greg Lemond feel about Armstrong?

It is not just the French, but another American legend.

[Saboburns]

3. What does ingesting cocaine have to with playing tennis??

30 fukking years of Piss Test America/world and this is what you get.

I'll never understand it.

OMG Somebody might be having fun, and, OMG doing drugs!?!