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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 868559" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>I suppose there are some possible mitigating circumstances there, but the "I took some cold medicine with steroids in" bullshit has been around a long time and precedent has been well and truly set that a professional athlete is responsible for everything he puts in his body and should check any medication out very carefully. Sad to say I think it is orders of magnitude more likely that a professional athlete is dishonest enough to dope than that one would be lax enough to take a medicine without checking it carefully for banned substances.</p><p></p><p>Added to which, the second offence casts significant doubt on the first doesn't it? If Justin Gatland had never doped again I'd be more inclined to accept the first was a genuine mistake</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 868559, member: 71826"] I suppose there are some possible mitigating circumstances there, but the "I took some cold medicine with steroids in" bullshit has been around a long time and precedent has been well and truly set that a professional athlete is responsible for everything he puts in his body and should check any medication out very carefully. Sad to say I think it is orders of magnitude more likely that a professional athlete is dishonest enough to dope than that one would be lax enough to take a medicine without checking it carefully for banned substances. Added to which, the second offence casts significant doubt on the first doesn't it? If Justin Gatland had never doped again I'd be more inclined to accept the first was a genuine mistake [/QUOTE]
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