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Even now, five years after testing positive for a banned substance, Gatlin seems in denial about the incident that disgraced his career. He continues to maintain that he never knowingly doped, that his former massage therapist sabotaged him by rubbing a testosterone-like cream onto his legs in 2006.
It is a variation of Barry Bonds’s flaxseed oil defense, and just as unlikely to be true. The masseur denied any subterfuge. And given that Gatlin’s coach, Trevor Graham, and seven other athletes in their former training group, including Marion Jones, were barred from the sport in the Balco scandal, it seems highly improbable that Gatlin was an innocent wronged.
Still, he persists in saying so. “I’ve always stuck by my story,” Gatlin said. “I’m just going to tell the truth. That’s the way I was raised. If I did it, I would have said it.”
Read more: Gatlin Looking to Outrun Competition and Suspicions - New York Times
It is a variation of Barry Bonds’s flaxseed oil defense, and just as unlikely to be true. The masseur denied any subterfuge. And given that Gatlin’s coach, Trevor Graham, and seven other athletes in their former training group, including Marion Jones, were barred from the sport in the Balco scandal, it seems highly improbable that Gatlin was an innocent wronged.
Still, he persists in saying so. “I’ve always stuck by my story,” Gatlin said. “I’m just going to tell the truth. That’s the way I was raised. If I did it, I would have said it.”
Read more: Gatlin Looking to Outrun Competition and Suspicions - New York Times
