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Old November 11th 04, 07:27 PM
Curtis L. Russell
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Default 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)
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