[News] Shawn Barber Tested Positive for Cocaine Prior to Rio

[CofR]

World champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber tested positive for cocaine just weeks ahead of the Rio Olympics.

He was allowed to compete because his sport court hearing determined that he inadvertently ingested the banned substance during a tryst with a woman that he found on Craigslist in Edmonton the night before he competed at the Canadian Olympic trials.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/amate...-olympics.html

[undercoverbrother]

[Parallex]

That has got to be the most awkward explanation for a positive drug test.

Panel Member: "Mr. Barber, how do you explain yourself?"
Barber: "I don't do drugs"
Panel Member: "Then how do you explain the positive test?"
Barber: I was French Kissing a prostitute the night before"
Panel Member: "..."

[Street Pharmacist]

What these excuses don't answer is how were the levels that high then? I'm fairly certain these tests do not look for present vs not present. They have a threshold amount it takes to be considered positive

[CofR]

A bit more info:

To explain his doping violation, Barber said that he posted in Craigslist’s casual encounter section under a pseudonym to solicit a drug- and disease-free “professional” woman, to help relieve stress the night before the trials in Edmonton. A man responded with pictures of a woman, and informed Barber that the woman was a mother of two, which Barber liked because he thought that meant she would be “more cautious” and “reserved.”


The woman spoke at the hearing, and said that unbeknownst to Barber she had snorted cocaine before going to the hotel, and then snorted more cocaine in the hotel bathroom just before he arrived. Barber said he didn’t notice anything unusual while kissing the woman, and said that her behavior was normal, if a little bit tipsy. (She offered him a glass of alcohol, but he declined.) After 30 minutes the sexual encounter was over, and Barber went back to his hotel room and slept.

http://deadspin.com/world-champion-p...e-c-1787490640

[GirlySports]

that's the Richard Gasquet defense!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ocaine-cas-ban

[browna]

Unlikely to see too many advertisers jumping to sponsor him after this. Tabloid stuff here, added to the fsct thst he crashed out of Rio pretty quick...probably as most of the Olympic Village hookups werent doing lines.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by browna

Unlikely to see too many advertisers jumping to sponsor him after this. Tabloid stuff here, added to the fsct thst he crashed out of Rio pretty quick...probably as most of the Olympic Village hookups werent doing lines.

Would it be a conflict of interest to be sponsored by a drug-testing company?