Earlier, we asked whether American runner Antonio Pettigrew is a doper. Now we know the answer. From the AP: Olympic gold medalist Antonio Pettigrew admitted publicly for the first time Thursday that he used performance-enhancing substances during a long, successful sprinting career in which he passed all drug tests. So our Doper’s List of Shame [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Olympians Behaving Badly’
Mobile Company Dumps Ronaldo. Nike to Follow?
Poor Ronaldo. First he hires prostitutes who turned out to be men. Then one of them prostitutes, the fame seeking Andre Luis Ribeiro Albertino a.k.a Andreia Albertine, tried to extort money from him. Then Ronaldo tried hiding from the public hoping that the issue will die but the scandal raged on. Then TIM, a mobile [...]
Tim Montgomery Arrested On Heroin Charges
This is just sad. Someone needs to help this guy. He’s American but if his free fall continues, he might end up like former Nigerian star athletes who, according to Olusuji Fasuba, end up begging in the streets. Associated Press: Former track star Tim Montgomery has been indicted on heroin distribution charges, the Virginian-Pilot of [...]
Nick D’Arcy: A Lesson in GMRC
Here’s The Olympian Blog’s first rule in good manners and right conduct (GMRC): If you just qualified for the Olympics, don’t get drunk and elbow a fellow swimmer — or anyone for that matter — in the face. This is the lesson we learn from the story of swimmer Nick D’Arcy who was dropped from [...]
Olympians Behaving Badly: Scott Miller is a Drug Dealer?
Olympic silver medalist Scott Miller of Australia was arrested following a drug bust by authorities in Sydney. Miller, according to Australia’s heraldsun, used to be the “pin-up boy of Australian swimming”. Unfortunately, if the charges stick and he’s convicted, he’ll be staring at pin-ups in a jail cell or something. You can read the report [...]
