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Brits and Belgium - Pigeon Racers on Dope
The Wall Street Journal reports that there is a growing scandal in
pigeon racing in Belgium and Britain. Evidently the drug of choice is (are?) steroids. My favorite paragraph is the following: "An incident involving one of Mr. Brammer's birds fanned the doping rumors when the pigeon in question went missing during a race between France and England in May, only to turn up in Canada two months later. A racing pigeon's maximum range is usually around 500 miles, but this bird traveled more than 3,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean." No doubt WADA to intervene shortly - as soon as they get a supply of little needles and little, tiny plastic bags for the drug testing. So if BL tires of the bicycling crusade, he has a whole 'nother flock of birds to go after. Wonder what would happen if African Swallows started taking dope... Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels... |
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