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Offline Holden McGroin

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« on: October 09, 2004, 11:47:57 PM »
More Olympic drug test positives. Positive dope tests on Cian O'Connor's Waterford Crystal, the individual show-jumping gold medallist and Ludger Beerbaum's Goldfever.

Goldfever was part of the winning German team could bring up the USA as the equestrian team champions and Brazilian Rodrigo Pessoa as the show jumping champion.

It has long been rumoured that the International Olympic Committee is eager to drop equestrian sports from the Games. If that is so, the presence of banned substances in the blood samples of these three horses - plus Foxy XX, ridden for the Austrian three-day event team by Harald Riedl - can only play into their hands.

Now if we could only get positive test results for sync swimming, sync diving, and rythymic gymnastics.
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Offline Torque

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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2004, 12:18:09 AM »
The IOC is an auction house, they sell to the highest bidder.
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Offline cpxxx

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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2004, 08:08:12 AM »
Needless to say this got no little publicity here and some consternation.  The B sample is now being sent for analysis.  They are pretty confident it will be negative.  Apparently the positive result on Waterford Crystal may have been caused by a sedative administered by a vet before the Olympics.  As the one and only medal won by the Irish team at this Olympics we want to hold onto it.  Particularly after what happened to THAT swimmer who won four medals at a previous Olympics but later offered a sample laced with enough Whiskey to........ahem, kill a horse. She went on to become a lawyer, enough said!!

Cian O'Connor will keep his medal once the B sample is checked.

I can't speak for the Germans though.  

On the other point, if drug use caused sports to be dropped. Then athletics would be long gone.  They are all at it in one form or other.
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