There was the Dutch cyclist who blamed a failed a drug test on his father-in-law, who fed him pigeon pie purportedly made from doped-up racing pigeons.
Or the German runner who claimed his nandrolone positives came from someone surreptitiously injecting it into his toothpaste.
Or Fidel Castro, who insisted world-record high jumper Javier Sotomayor's positive test was the work of the Cuban-American mafia.
