Sprinter uses kissing as excuse for positive drug test and it actually works

Who knew it was this easy?

Apparently kissing is a good enough excuse to get you out of serving a doping ban. 

Kudos to American sprinter Gil Roberts for finding a loophole in the anti-doping system. If only all of Russia thought of this one first…

Here’s what happened: Roberts tested positive for probenecid in March and had the substance show up in his B sample in May. Being an athlete with a WADA-banned substance found in his body, he was handed a ban. But the case went to an arbitrator in June and the ban was overturned just last week. 

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Apparently the gold medallist who flew to flew to Rio to represent the U.S. in the 4 x 400 relay has a seemingly legitimate excuse: the drugs got into his system ater making out with his girlfriend. Because that makes sense. 

His story is this. His girlfriend went to India, landed herself a sinus infection, and was given medication. (This has apparently been corroborated by her step-father.) She allegedly took said medication by breaking the capsule and pouring the power into her mouth… you know, as you do. The tale goes like this: after tearing the capsule apart rather than just swallowing it the normal way, she kissed her boyfriend and in doing so, tainted his samples. This is the story that he has sold the American anti-doping authorities. (And we wonder why track is getting a bad reputation…)

Fair play to Roberts as he’s now back to running. The real joke is on Russia. Here they’ve duped the entire world but did they really need such elaborate scheming? No. 

Roberts has been a professional sprinter since 2009. We have no idea when his first kiss was. Roberts apparently said he didn’t know he could test positive for banned drugs by kissing his girlfriend.

Neither did we. 

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