Doping at the Olympics - Non-cycling Division
It's a doping story that I actually found amusing.
Four horses in the Olympic equestrian team jumping competition, including one from Norway's bronze-medal team, have been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned pain reliever.
Did the horses go to their local drugstore with dark glasses and buy the stuff? Were the horses' names in Dr Fuentes files? Has L'Equipe linked them to Lance Armstrong yet? They had better call Howard Jacobs.
1 recs |
7 comments
Comments
Equestrianism is a fan-tastic sport for scandal. Seriously. Not just the racing. What actually happens in show jumping makes Dick Francis seem tame and Jackie Collins seem like she lacks imagination (Jackie Collins does lack imagination, but you know what I mean).
Though it’s being denied that the drug found was being used in this fashion, it apparently can be used as a form of chemical rapping. Rapping, for those not in the know, is where, in training, you whack a horse’s shins with a stick so that it gets to know the pain of hitting a fence and so avoids hitting fences. Chemical rapping works by rubbing a lotion onto the horse’s shins so that when it hits a fence, it’ll hurt even more. What a way to train a horse.
And then of course there’s Cian O’Connor four years ago and the mysterious case of his disappearing B sample (it was being delivered to a lab in Newmarket and someone went up to the van delivering it, claimed to be from the lab, signed for and was never seen again). Or the case of Susanna Bordone, whose sample managed to disappear from within a lab. How the Spanish couldn’t make Iban Mayo’s B-sample disappear on its world tour is beyond me.
If cycling ever does clean its act up and I feel wistful for doping scandals, the gee-gees are where I’m turning my attention.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Aug 21, 2008 11:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That's definitely
the post-race testing job you don’t want to get.
by Sui Juris on Aug 21, 2008 3:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You'd need a gallon jug
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
by Drew... on Aug 21, 2008 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
epo and 'roiding
work for horses too.
it’s actually legal in racing to use ’roids, apparently, and there was a bit of a hub-bub about it at the time of the kentucky derby.
by gavia on Aug 21, 2008 8:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, well, the Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
by fmk on Aug 22, 2008 2:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I strongly object to this thread
It’s a well known fact that doping only occurs in cycling. Trying to claim otherwise is just malicious.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
by Jens on Aug 22, 2008 9:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

by 















