Those excuses . . . .

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Just a few of the often used excuses . . . .

Pick and vote on the "best" one you heard !!

[martin smith]

the prize for inventiveness has to be the unborn twin theory
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

[hed]

i thought it was only recently that armstrong realised he needed bum cream
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Team VeloRiders- like Rock Racing, only far more perverted.

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Miaow !!!!!

[Turismo]

[Howard Peel]

So many good ones it is hard to choose!

Still there are plenty more you could add. For example,

Landis: I naturally have an unnatural hormone balance. (Don't see how this explains the presence of artifical testosterone though!).

Mark Gorski, Armstrong's manager: Yes, we use Actovegin, but only to treat grazes when the riders fall off.

(Armstrong himself claimed "I will say that the substance on people's minds - activ-o- something - is new to me. Before this ordeal I had never heard of it, nor had my teammates." An odd claim from such a control freak as Armstrong who took a very real interest in everything the team used, even down to dictating what brand of coffee was kept on the Tour bus!).

P.s a page on the 'graze treatment' Actovegin...

http://www.nycomed.com.cn/english/wmdcp/awz/biaoti.html

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Well, i included both - but simply posted the "official" instant "without thinking" response, the individual used, or the etam suggested.

If anyone has any i have missed - let me know and I'll add it.

[hed]

[Howard Peel]

[Howard Peel]

No post, I just edited a typo and the post duplicated itself!

[SteveAS]

Who was the rider who said his mum was wearing his sandals and cos she was using a cream to cure her corns it got onto the sandals and he transmitted it.

Something like that. It was in the 80s i recall.

[Howard Peel]

When looking around for a few more 'excuses' I came across the following, and the title if nothing else made me laugh.

Landis' excuses like 1,000 monkeys with typewriters

http://www.sportsline.com/print/columns/story/9590157

This is good as well...

[Willi Tarran]

The best I have heard was concerning a test in the team time trial stage of an International Stage Race

"I should not have been selected as I crossed the line in 3rd place not second place. I purposely finished in 3rd place because my manager told me to."

The rider didn't turn up and got lobbed off the race and then tried to organise a boycott and go slow the next day.

This was cured by the organiser being encouraged to put a 500 guilder prime after 5 kms. Race started at 50kph (funny speed for a go slow) and the rest of the race passed without incident and nobody else missed the doping .

Strange really

Willi Tarran

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for those amongst us, who are somewhat bored. . . try this :

Check out which races - have produced the most number of "positive" tests - and the "Tour" as a whole does not count !!

check out how many riders have ben declared positive on tour stages - as opposed to classics .

re Willi Comment - re ploegen tijdrit , ik ken dat koersen jonger . . .