Pity his statement didn't say anything about him perhaps being treated for any illness or injury leading up to SA champs in which a doctor may have negligently prescribed him something containing the substance, as in the cases above. Unfortunately rules and the monitoring of them these days leaves less room for the Lance cortisone saddle sore back dated prescription type stories to be gotten away with. As we can see from the above cases, the athletes themselves need to be pretty damn clued up on exactly what questions to ask and what procedures are to be followed, even more so than their doctors apparently. I really want to believe that he's clean, but my take on this (which the above cases may offer some insight into), is that perhaps that he had something else in his system that needed masking. Perhaps the substance he was trying to mask carried a heavier penalty than what he was ultimately caught with. Perhaps he was informed before champs that there would be testing, and he chose the lesser of two evils to be caught with, in the hopes that he may be able to defend it's presence enough to be given a slap on the wrist. Who knows... I don't think his dad's food contamination theory was the smartest thing to come out with.
