After a positive cocaine test, tennis' governing body had banned him for 2.5 months. He faced a much, much, longer suspension unless he could come up with a damn fucking good reason why the white gold was in his system. Gasquet:
convinced an independent anti-doping tribunal that he ingested cocaine by kissing a woman he met at a nightclub in Miami.Sounds pretty lame, but the three member panel of judge/jury/executioner said
Gasquet consumed no more than "a grain of salt" of the drug.So...anyone else a little chilled by this story? Not for the making out with the coked out girl or having that story fly in court...but by there being a test which can detect "a grain of salt" of cocaine in your system.
Holy shit, yo, they probably have tests to determine if you've been within 20 feet of the stuff. Aren't druggies supposed to be one step ahead of the system? How on earth have drug tests advanced this far, yet no strain of untraceable Super Cocaine exists. What the hell are they doing down there in Colombia?
Sure stimulants like caffeine help better athletic performance, but wouldn't cocaine negatively affect performance? I'm pretty the last thing on any player's mind in the midst of a 5-set marathon on a hot January day in Australian is going back to the locker room and blasting a mammoth line. But hey, I'm probably wrong. If athletes want to inhibit themselves, so be it. Tennis should just go back to providing adequate security and preventing randos dudes from STABBING the players DURING a match.
Such a shame, Seles as #1 too.
Story: http://tennis.fanhouse.com/2009/07/15/richard-gasquet-cleared-to-return/
Gasquet is a lucky man. And, we all know he did some of that dust. He's a rich tennis player that likes to party.
ReplyDeleteBtw, Matthie Montcourt, a French tennis player, just died inexplicably recently.
Coke may help you as a tennis player, but it also may kill you to while playing tennis.