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THIN STORY After testing positive for a banned diuretic in 2003, Australian spinner Shane Warne said he'd been given it by his mother so he'd look less fat on TV: "I was doing a lot of wine promotions. I'd had a couple too many bottles of wine and a few late nights. It was to get rid of a double chin."
THERE'S THE RUB When Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin failed a test last month, his coach claimed a masseur with a grudge had rubbed testosterone into the US sprinter's groin without his knowledge.
RING OF CONFIDENCE In 1999, German 5,000m runner Dieter Baumann claimed his toothpaste had been spiked after testing positive for excessive nandrolone - and offered a $52,000 reward for information leading to the culprits.
HIGH ON DRUGS After testing positive for cocaine in 1999, Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor
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Disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis claims his high testosterone levels are ‘absolutely natural’. He’s not the first to plead innocence over drugs charges...
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said he had been set-up by the CIA and Cuban-American mafia, saying: "I've only seen that substance in the movies."
DARN BROTHER American cyclist Tyler Hamilton claimed innocence after being banned for blood doping in 2004, arguing that foreign cells present in his blood had been produced by a twin brother who died before birth.
CALF LOVE Czech tennis star Petr Korda blamed his positive test at Wimbledon in 1998 on eating too much nandrolone-fattened veal.
THE MULE When the wife of Tour de France rider Raimondas Rumsas was arrested on the French border with a suitcase full of steroids, the Lithuanian claimed: "I think it must all be a misunderstanding. She was carrying them from Lithuania to my mother-in-law."
FIRST POSTED AUGUST 8, 2006
 The Sports Pages
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