Experts: Boonen 'did not ingest' cocaine

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Chuffy

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RabbitFood said:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/18062009/58/experts-boonen-ingest-cocaine.html

Verdit?
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Bless you <passes RabbitFood a tissue>
 
Chuffy

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The amount quoted seems awfully small, and as the expert chappy says, they wouldn't classify that as a positive. I don't buy the 'it blew in with the wind' theory though. My hunch is that he was offered some and dipped a finger tip but thought better of piling in nose first. Kind of suggests that he's still keeping dodgy company even if he's keeping his nose clean (so to speak)...
 
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Chuffy said:
The amount quoted seems awfully small, and as the expert chappy says, they wouldn't classify that as a positive. I don't buy the 'it blew in with the wind' theory though. My hunch is that he was offered some and dipped a finger tip but thought better of piling in nose first. Kind of suggests that he's still keeping dodgy company even if he's keeping his nose clean (so to speak)...
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Chuff - you appear to talk from experience :laugh:

quote: 'The amount quoted seems awfully small'
 
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<This is rather on the level of 'I didn't inhale' or 'I did not have sexual intercourse with that women' though, isn't it? >

Fair comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Flying_Monkey said:
This is rather on the level of 'I didn't inhale' or 'I did not have sexual intercourse with that women' though, isn't it?
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...except that the second hand coke theory isn't coming from Tom himself. It's being floated as a possibility by the chap who did the testing.
 
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yenrod said:
Chuff - you appear to talk from experience :laugh:

quote: 'The amount quoted seems awfully small'
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Ah. I've been reading a different account.

Both experts found traces of the drug in the hair samples of Boonen, a three-time Paris-Roubaix winner, but said that they were only very small amounts.
Kintz found 0,09 ng/mg, while "we speak of a positive result when it exceeds 0.5 nanogrammes per milligramme. One thing is certain: he was exposed to very small quantities and is not a chronic user," he said. Kintz concluded that the Belgian sprinter might not have actually snorted the drug, but that his contact with the substance could have been coincidental – by a contaminated drink, a handshake or particles of cocaine in the air.
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Yenners, I've had such a sheltered life that I have never seen cocaine, or been anywhere close to it, let alone taking it. In fact, I only know one person who has. And they tried it once at a party and didn't like it.
 
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Chuffy said:
Yenners, I've had such a sheltered life that I have never seen cocaine, or been anywhere close to it, let alone taking it. In fact, I only know one person who has. And they tried it once at a party and didn't like it.
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In my experience, it turns people into arrogant, nasty and boorish. It's hard to tell with Boonen, because he seems so much like that anyway... :laugh:
 
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The former world champion has stated that the day before the test he had had a blackout following a drinking session and could not remember anything more.
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Ban him anyway. What sort of example is that to set? We expect our role models to be able to drink shed loads without passing out. :smile:
 
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