In one of the more bizarre suspected doping cases, Jeff Adams, a wheelchair racing athlete is planning on appealing his 2 year suspension for testing positive for cocaine. Adams, who has won 6 world championships is adamant that he doesn't use cocaine.

According to Adams, while at the Toronto Goth bar Vatikan, an unknown woman came up to him as he sat on a couch in the club and stuffed cocaine into his mouth. Makes sense to me. That shit ALWAYS happens to me whenever I go out, I can't STOP people from trying to shove drugs in my mouth. I'm usually lucky if the evening ends and it was ONLY drugs they were trying to stuff into me.

Adams said the catheter he used after that incident to extract urine was the same one he used to give a urine sample a week later after a race at the Canadian wheelchair marathon championships in Ottawa. He said that contaminated catheter caused his positive test for a cocaine metabolite.

However, the arbiter, Richard McLaren isn't necessarily buying it, "(Adams) could have reported the matter to the police but chose not to do so despite the fact he is married to a police officer. ... When I look at the entire circumstances beyond the mere testimony of the athlete I find that the overall version of the events strains my credulity in respect of what occurred."

By all accounts, Adams has been upfront about this issue all along, and I got to believe that his story is SO ridiculous that there has to be some truth to it. Otherwise, how could anyone EVER think that story would hold up?

[Toronto Star]

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