Water For Visiting Soccer Team Drugged In Athens, Greece

http://www.news4jax.com/sports/3400123/detail.html ^ | 6-9-04 | AP

[OXENinFLA]

Water For Visiting Soccer Team Drugged In Athens, Greece

POSTED: 2:03 pm EDT June 9, 2004

ATHENS, Greece -- Bottled water given to a visiting soccer team by an Athens squad was found to have been spiked with a powerful depressant, after tests conducted when mystery illnesses struck two other teams at earlier games.

Olympics organizers quickly ruled out the possibility of such an incident occurring at the Aug. 13-29 Athens Games, saying all food and water for athletes would be subject to random inspections for poisons or substances that might enhance performance.

When Akratitos played Kalithea, another Athens team, on March 20, the Kalithea coach was hospitalized for three days after losing consciousness after the game. Akratitos drew that game, 0-0.

After an April 17 game between host Akratitos and Ionikos, at least one player from the visiting team was hospitalized and doctors were unsure what caused him to pass out. Akratitos won that match, 3-0.

Greece's Food Inspection Agency said Wednesday it had found that a hypodermic needle was used to inject the drug haloperidol into the water bottle. It said it was turning results of its tests over to a prosecutor so that a criminal investigation could be opened.

A sealed bottle of water was given to the agency by the visiting Iraklis team after an April 21 game with host Akratitos, which won the game 1-0.

[OXENinFLA]

This is low....

[television is just wrong]

Geez

[OXENinFLA]

And the winning team is........(the one that didn't get drugged.)

[television is just wrong]

Bad sportsmenship.

[proxy_user]

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes....

[blanknoone]

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

[stainlessbanner]

First kool-aid, now water....

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Illegal drugs, I presume.

Can't they just legalize the drugs so no one will get harmed by it?

[EggsAckley]

Worse than low. Evil, IMO.

[tertiary01]

It is Haldol, very legal by prescription. Use to be used in Mental Hospitals by the gallon, but due to side effects has been replaced mostly by other meds.

[Teacher317]

Olympics organizers quickly ruled out the possibility of such an incident occurring at the Aug. 13-29 Athens Games, saying all food and water for athletes would be subject to random inspections for poisons or substances that might enhance performance.

Morons. Random testing only ensures the safety of those bottles tested. It does nothing to rule out the possibility for EVERY bottle!

[drjimmy]

Random testing only ensures the safety of those bottles tested. It does nothing to rule out the possibility for EVERY bottle!

They should instead randomly switch some of the bottles between the home team and visiting team. That way the home team won't know whether the flagon with the dragon has the pellet with the poison and the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

[FoxInSocks]

Vizzini in The Princess Bride:

Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

[weegee]

The solution. They will post signs that say:

WARNING!!!

Do NOT take water from

THIS woman!

[hchutch]

Classic monologue... not quite as good as the one Clint Eastwood had in "Dirty Harry", but a good one.

[drjimmy]

Inconceivable!

[ConservativeMan55]

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