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

pconn062

...but was allowed to compete because apparently he accidentally ingested it from the lips of a woman of the night.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/amateur/2016/10/06/shawn-barber-tested-positive-for-cocaine-before-rio-olympics.html

Not the first time that excuse has been used. Pretty embarrassing for him either way.

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?

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?

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.

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.

johnruns

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

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.

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.

Pherekydes

Chivito550 wrote: »

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

I dunno, I never got close to either.

average_runner

Pherekydes wrote: »

I dunno, I never got close to either.

But cocaine wouldnt of improved his performance.

average_runner

Chivito550 wrote: »

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

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

Chivito550

average_runner wrote: »

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.

gramar

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

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

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.

Chivito550

Hard Worker wrote: »

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.

average_runner

Hard Worker wrote: »

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