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redfiona99Or possibly oh Kazahk cycling federation, your sneakiness is on a par with the American one.
The Kazakhstan Cycling Federation handed the 34-year-old a one-year suspension that will go into effect retroactively from the time of his blood doping positive at July's Tour de France leaving him eligible for selection on the Kazakh Olympic team at August's Beijing Games.
"Documents and evidence presented by Vinokourov and his lawyers were not convincing," Kazakh federation vice-president Nikolay Proskurin said. "We decided to disqualify him for a year."
"I think that should he want to, Vinokourov will be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Beijing."
The best bit being that the traditional punishment for this is a 2 year ban. And that Vino is still declaiming his innocence loudly.
Also, we have more entrants for best excuse for a positive result ever:
Ross Rabagliati after testing positive for pot - Regabliati claimed the drug traces came from second-hand smoke he consumed while partying with marijuana puffing buddies during a pre-Olympic shindig in Whistler, B.C.
Petr Korda - The Czech tennis player claimed he failed the test because he had eaten too much nandrolone-fattened veal.
Of course we have the best one ever which is Tyler Hamilton (oh how I love you) - the reason he had two different blood types in his body is that he's one of chimeric twins, a mixture of two individuals - non-identical twin brother - who fused in the womb and grew into a single body.
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And before anyone calls me a hypocrite, well okay I am one, but in cycling at least, they're all on something so I feel less guilty.
The Kazakhstan Cycling Federation handed the 34-year-old a one-year suspension that will go into effect retroactively from the time of his blood doping positive at July's Tour de France leaving him eligible for selection on the Kazakh Olympic team at August's Beijing Games.
"Documents and evidence presented by Vinokourov and his lawyers were not convincing," Kazakh federation vice-president Nikolay Proskurin said. "We decided to disqualify him for a year."
"I think that should he want to, Vinokourov will be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Beijing."
The best bit being that the traditional punishment for this is a 2 year ban. And that Vino is still declaiming his innocence loudly.
Also, we have more entrants for best excuse for a positive result ever:
Ross Rabagliati after testing positive for pot - Regabliati claimed the drug traces came from second-hand smoke he consumed while partying with marijuana puffing buddies during a pre-Olympic shindig in Whistler, B.C.
Petr Korda - The Czech tennis player claimed he failed the test because he had eaten too much nandrolone-fattened veal.
Of course we have the best one ever which is Tyler Hamilton (oh how I love you) - the reason he had two different blood types in his body is that he's one of chimeric twins, a mixture of two individuals - non-identical twin brother - who fused in the womb and grew into a single body.
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And before anyone calls me a hypocrite, well okay I am one, but in cycling at least, they're all on something so I feel less guilty.
