injuryupdate
02-07-2005, 11:05 AM
I thought the biggest lie of the month was a contest between the girls who have slept with Shane Warne recently saying "(1) I didn't even know who he was (2) I don't sleep around (3) I didn't want to create any publicity".
However, this takes the cake - an Olympic Gold medal winner saying "I was never even offered any drugs until spring of this year," McMahon said.
Of course you would start taking EPO if you were already able to win a Gold medal without using anything - NOT!
Games star admits EPO use
From correspondents in Bern, Switzerland
July 2, 2005
FORMER Olympic triathlon gold medallist Brigitte McMahon has admitted using the banned blood-booster EPO following a positive doping test at her home last month.
The 38-year-old Swiss told a media conference that she had taken EPO "for therapeutic reasons, and in a very small dosage".
But McMahon insisted she had not used drugs at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games where she won triathlon's first ever Olympic gold medal.
McMahon edged out Australia's Michellie Jones by two seconds in a dramatic finish in the shadows of the Sydney Opera House.
"I was never even offered any drugs until spring of this year," McMahon said.
A trained biochemist and mother of three, McMahon had been in training for next year's world championships when she underwent an out-of-competition test at her home in central Switzerland.
The Swiss Olympic Association said McMahon had been thrown off the national team with immediate effect.
She also faces a two-year ban from competition
However, this takes the cake - an Olympic Gold medal winner saying "I was never even offered any drugs until spring of this year," McMahon said.
Of course you would start taking EPO if you were already able to win a Gold medal without using anything - NOT!
Games star admits EPO use
From correspondents in Bern, Switzerland
July 2, 2005
FORMER Olympic triathlon gold medallist Brigitte McMahon has admitted using the banned blood-booster EPO following a positive doping test at her home last month.
The 38-year-old Swiss told a media conference that she had taken EPO "for therapeutic reasons, and in a very small dosage".
But McMahon insisted she had not used drugs at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games where she won triathlon's first ever Olympic gold medal.
McMahon edged out Australia's Michellie Jones by two seconds in a dramatic finish in the shadows of the Sydney Opera House.
"I was never even offered any drugs until spring of this year," McMahon said.
A trained biochemist and mother of three, McMahon had been in training for next year's world championships when she underwent an out-of-competition test at her home in central Switzerland.
The Swiss Olympic Association said McMahon had been thrown off the national team with immediate effect.
She also faces a two-year ban from competition