As you can imagine, there are a lot of excuses that would be funny if the truth weren't so sad.

The oddest excuse was the theory proffered by Tyler Hamilton, who claimed innocence from blood doping by saying the foreign cells found in his blood came from a chimeric twin that died in utero while his mother was pregnant, and the vanished twin's cells mixed with his own:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/health/11iht-sntwin.html

El Pistolero, aka Clen-tador, may actually be innocent in this case, but the damage is already done.

--Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: roger Klinger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 05:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [SKIVT-L] OT: Some things never change

Tainted meat? That is probably the funniest excuse ever.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Chris Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/sports/cycling/01cycling.html?src=mv

I guess I could have also changed the subject to "The Saddest of
Sports" or something like that.

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