Doping, the most imaginative excuses of athletes: pregnant men, nandrolone toothpastes, the Epo hidden in the vaccine against Covid

Let’s tell the truth. Sportspeople sometimes have more imagination than a Hollywood screenwriter. To justify the prohibited substances found in their bodies following an anti-doping control, they told the most extravagant stories. From nandrolone caused by too many wild boar steaks of which the then footballer spoke Christian Bucchi to the American cyclist Tyler Hamilton who attributed the foreign red blood cells found in his blood to his twin brother who died before birth. Or those who have tried to circumvent the tests with a woman’s urine, resulting, however, “pregnant”. In most cases the judges did not believe their justifications. But there are also those who convinced them. Let’s see who made it and who didn’t.