Foo - Irish rider stripped of gold for positive doping test

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thewalrus
03-27-05, 08:04 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/equestrian/4383239.stm

The International Equestrian Federation have ordered Irish showjumper Cian O'Connor to give back his Olympic gold at a hearing into doping allegations.

O'Connor's horse tested positive for prohibited substances and after an 11 hour hearing he was disqualfied.

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I thought this was funny, compared to cycling... it's not the rider that was on drugs, it was the horse!

Gomez308
03-27-05, 08:06 PM
What's the world come to. A man can't trust his own horse.
Blackberry
03-27-05, 09:09 PM
What's the world come to. A man can't trust his own horse. :eek:

lauren
03-27-05, 10:33 PM
This is actually fairly common. I got out of horses because I couldn't afford one, much less that quantity of meds :D. Even supplements are expensive. You don't even want to know what the vet bills are like. Bikes and dogs are a much better hobby.
pearcem
03-28-05, 07:04 AM
did you guys ever read those two articlea bout animal doping someone posted a long time ago? One was about people giving utter steriods to prize dairy cows to enlarge their utters for showing, and the second was about belgian racing pigeons . . . over half of the ones tested were positive for anabolic steriods. Kinda funny, but kinda sad