I told you his excuse would be fantastic
Jul. 25th, 2007 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99From Eurosport, excuse bolded:
But the 33-year-old, who bounced back from losing nearly 30 minutes in Sunday's mountain stage by winning in the Pyrenees on Monday, has denied the allegation.
He told L'Equipe: "It's a mistake. I never doped, that's not the way I see my profession.
"I think it's a mistake in part due to my crash. I have spoken to the team doctors who had a hypothesis that there was an enormous amount of blood in my thighs, which could have led to my positive test.
"I heard that I made a transfusion with my father's blood. That's absurd, I can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for vodka.
"The setting up of our team made a lot of people jealous and now we're paying the price. It's a shame to leave the Tour this way, but I don't want to waste time in proving my innocence."
I love him.
But the 33-year-old, who bounced back from losing nearly 30 minutes in Sunday's mountain stage by winning in the Pyrenees on Monday, has denied the allegation.
He told L'Equipe: "It's a mistake. I never doped, that's not the way I see my profession.
"I think it's a mistake in part due to my crash. I have spoken to the team doctors who had a hypothesis that there was an enormous amount of blood in my thighs, which could have led to my positive test.
"I heard that I made a transfusion with my father's blood. That's absurd, I can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for vodka.
"The setting up of our team made a lot of people jealous and now we're paying the price. It's a shame to leave the Tour this way, but I don't want to waste time in proving my innocence."
I love him.
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Date: 2007-07-26 10:15 am (UTC)Athletes all over the world should make up ridiculous explanations like that instead of using the tired old 'Well, I used this cream...' or 'My trainer gave me something and didn't tell me what it was...'
The world would be a much more hilarious place.
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Date: 2007-07-26 11:19 am (UTC)Another good one
Date: 2007-07-26 02:13 pm (UTC)Then there's Dennis Mitchell who got away with the following excuse - he had excessively high testosterone in his blood because he'd had sex with his wife 4 times the night before and had had 2 bottles of beer as well. That's my favourite ever.
Re: Another good one
Date: 2007-07-26 08:15 pm (UTC)Best. Excuse. Ever.