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Pole Vault World Champion Shawn Barber tests positive for cocaine before Rio

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    If movies and tv served me well, and I've no reason to believe otherwise, don't you shove it up your nose, or rub it into your gums? She must have been eating it for enough to transfer from her lips to his in order for it to show up on a test?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    Tennis player Richard Gasquet used the exact same excuse, I would imagine (I admit I'm not expert on cocaine..........unfortunately ;)) that it would take a fair chunk of cocaine to be ingested for it to show up on a drugs test. Like, enough that you would be able to see it on her lip?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    To be fair, and I could be wrong, this strikes me as an idiotic 22 year old acting the maggot than actual cheating. To be honest, I'd be amazed that, if he chose to go down the PED route, that he would take such an easily detectable substance just before an event that he knows he is going to get tested at (Canadian Champs). That's junior infants standard doping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    To be fair, and I could be wrong, this strikes me as an idiotic 22 year old acting the maggot than actual cheating. To be honest, I'd be amazed that, if he chose to go down the PED route, that he would take such an easily detectable substance just before an event that he knows he is going to get tested at (Canadian Champs). That's junior infants standard doping.

    How is he idiotic or acting the maggot? He kissed someone, ffs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭johnruns


    Bet Tyson Fury is raging he didnt think of that excuse.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    johnruns wrote: »
    Bet Tyson Fury is raging he didnt think of that excuse.

    I'd say the pole vaulter has a much higher (ahem) IQ. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    How is he idiotic or acting the maggot? He kissed someone, ffs.

    A hooker close to a national championship is fairly stupid I would have thought. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    A hooker close to a national championship is fairly stupid I would have thought. :p

    I dunno, I never got close to either. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,876 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I dunno, I never got close to either. :o

    But cocaine wouldnt of improved his performance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,876 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    A hooker close to a national championship is fairly stupid I would have thought. :p

    Irish national championship yeah, hooker talent is probably poor, Canadian hookers probably good looking


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    But cocaine wouldnt of improved his performance.

    Ah it probably would. Act as a relaxant. But I'd be amazed that anybody would bother taking it as it is so easily detectable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    We now know two things about Shawn Barber. He uses prostitutes and he snorts cocaine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,272 ✭✭✭Dubgal72


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Ah it probably would. Act as a relaxant. But I'd be amazed that anybody would bother taking it as it is so easily detectable.

    Au contraire....allegedly ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Hard Worker


    He is well known for attending parties.
    Never ceases to amaze me how some professional athletes can be the best in the World while not seeming to give 100% professionalism to their event.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    He is well known for attending parties.
    Never ceases to amaze me how some professional athletes can be the best in the World while not seeming to give 100% professionalism to their event.

    He was pretty poor in Rio, so maybe it caught up with him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,876 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    He is well known for attending parties.
    Never ceases to amaze me how some professional athletes can be the best in the World while not seeming to give 100% professionalism to their event.


    Depends if the bad lifestyle was within a training cycle or an easy period


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