Posted on 05/18/2009 7:04:51 PM PDT by greatdefender
BRUSSELS – Ready to flex their pecs and strike a pose, bodybuilders at the Belgian championships scattered when doping officials showed up.
After a spate of positive doping tests in recent years in Belgium, the event had been moved across the Dutch border to Vlissingen for the weekend competition.
"They must have felt safe out there," doping official Hans Cooman told the Associated Press on Monday.
But Cooman and two colleagues got the necessary papers to check the tournament in the Netherlands. And when they identified themselves just before the event — with the 20 bodybuilders weighing in and preparing themselves — the testers drew quite a response.
The bodybuilders got up and left, preferring to quit rather than submit to doping tests. Some grabbed their gear and headed straight out the door.
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The barry bonds “magic knee cream” strikes again!
Gee, bodybuilders and steroids...? Who woulda thunk it...?
The image of them running off just cracks me up.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
LOL
WTH? Words fail me. I got nothing.
It’s hard enough to accept that baseballers did performance enhancing drugs but now they are saying bodybuilders are on the juice too? Man, who knew?
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