A U.S. track athlete said kissing led to failed drug test

Apparently, "passionate kissing" can be bad news if you're an athlete.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – AUGUST 13: Gil Roberts of the United States reacts after the Men’s 400m Semi Final on Day 8 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 13, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

The typical excuses we see when an athlete fails a drug test tends to range from “I didn’t take it” to “I don’t know how it ended up in my system” or “that’s impossible.” This week, we have a new excuse thanks to United States track athlete Gil Roberts.

Roberts’ excuse? Passionate kissing.

This is serious. Roberts is claiming that intense kissing led to his positive test back in March, according to Deadspin. The news of the ridiculously odd possibility came from the USADA’s official report about the topic.

According to Roberts, his girlfriend Alex Salazar was taking medicine for a sinus infection and that medicine, which contained probenecid, is what led to the positive test.

Look specifically at the second paragraph here:

 

“They kissed and ‘chilled out’.”

Here’s the thing though, Roberts isn’t the first track athlete to blame KISSING on a positive drug test. Right before the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber blamed a positive drug test on kissing a woman who just did cocaine. In 2009, tennis player Richard Gasquet said he kissed a woman with cocaine on her lips, leading to a positive test.

While Barber and Gasquet were busted for kissing women who had just done cocaine, Roberts just wanted to kiss his girlfriend and is now being punished for it.

This is taking positive test blaming to new ridiculous stupid heights.

[Deadspin]

About David Lauterbach

David is a writer for The Comeback. He enjoyed two Men's Basketball Final Four trips for Syracuse before graduating in 2016. If The Office or Game of Thrones is on TV, David will be watching.

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