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No More Excuses Trivia Quiz

Drug testing is in nearly every sport worldwide now but it is not foolproof. This quiz will ask about 10 sports personalities who tested positive for drugs but somehow were excused for the positive test.

A multiple-choice quiz by dawgfan1995. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
dawgfan1995

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
349,534

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. This 2011 National League MVP winner supposedly tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone in his post-season urine sample. He was exonerated because the tester did not follow the proper protocols for sample collection. Who is this baseball player? Hint

Josh Hamilton

David Wright

Albert Pujols

Ryan Braun

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Question 2 of 10

2. This sportsman is a football player who tested positive for nandrolone, a banned steroid, after a UEFA Cup game between his club, Barcelona, and Celta Vigo in March of 2001. He had joined Barcelona as part of a package deal with his twin brother Ronald from Ajax. Who is this sports star? Hint

Josep Guardiola

Frank de Boer

Frank Rijkaard

Luis Figo

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Question 3 of 10

3. This British skier tested positive for methamphetamine after becoming the first-ever British skier to win a medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. His positive test result was overturned by the Court of Arbitration in Sport, but he never got his medal back. Who was this Scottish male slalom skier? Hint

Finlay Mickel

Alain Baxter

Craig Macfie

Roger Cruickshank

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Question 4 of 10

4. A Spanish football player tested positive for nandrolone usage while playing in Italy in 2001. He was cleared six years later by the Italian Football Federation and then was cleared again eight years later by the Italian Olympic Committee's Anti-Doping Court. He may be more famous for having resigned as the manager of FC Barcelona in April of 2012. Who is this Spaniard? Hint

Pippo Inzaghi

Frank Rijkaard

Joan Laporta

Josep Guardiola

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Question 5 of 10

5. This Canadian-British tennis player tested positive for nandrolone in 2003. He had achieved his greatest successes in the late 1990s, being ranked as highly as fourth after losing in the U.S. Open Final to Patrick Rafter in 1997. Who was this tennis player and 1997 BBC Sports Personality of the Year? Hint

Tim Henman

Greg Rusedski

Wilberforce Eaves

Jamie Delgado

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Question 6 of 10

6. Sometimes, vanity can cause a positive drugs test. This happened to an Israeli sailor named Udi Gal, who tested positive for a steroids masking agent called finasteride. Why was Gal using finasteride? Hint

To treat baldness

To deepen his voice

To prevent wrinkles

To treat acne

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Question 7 of 10

7. This successful German female marathon runner tested positive for elevated testosterone-to-epitestosterone levels in 1998. This positive test came just two years after she had become the first woman ever to win three consecutive Boston Marathons. Who is this distance runner? Hint

Uta Pippig

Sabrina Mockenhaupt

Hildegard Korner

Linda Kisabaka

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Question 8 of 10

8. French tennis player Richard Gasquet tested positive for cocaine use in March 2009. The test results showed very low levels of cocaine, however, and Gasquet was able to convince a tribunal that he accidentally ingested the cocaine. How did Gasquet say that he got the cocaine in his system? Hint

Drinking a cola laced with cocaine

Accidentally pricking himself with a cocaine-laced needle

Kissing a woman at a DJ party

Secondhand smoke at a club

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Question 9 of 10

9. Croatian swimmer Marko Strahija tested positive for human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, twice during his career. His second positive test in 2007, however, may have saved his life. What potentially deadly disease was uncovered by his second positive test? Hint

Heart arrhythmia

Testicular Cancer

Mesothelioma

Yellow fever

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Question 10 of 10

10. In 1990, a two-time gold medal winning American sprinter tested positive for phenylpropanolamine, a banned stimulant. This sprinter won his gold medals as a part of the 4 x 400m relay teams for the USA in both the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and also won an individual bronze medal in the 400m dash in 1984. Who is this Olympian? Hint

Michael Johnson

Edwin Moses

Antonio McKay

Carl Lewis

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Ryan Braun

Braun was the 2007 National League Rookie of the Year with the Milwaukee Brewers, the team that drafted him fifth overall in 2005 from the University of Miami. Braun's positive drug test was overturned because the sample was refrigerated over a weekend.

This did not meet with proper protocols as set forth in the baseball labor agreement, so a three-member arbitration panel overturned the test in a 2-1 vote.

Answer: Frank de Boer

Frank de Boer was named Ajax's manager in 2010 after spending two years in the split role of coaching Ajax's youth team and serving as an assistant manager to the Dutch National Team. De Boer was cleared of his nandrolone test by UEFA after it was determined that de Boer had taken approved but tainted dietary supplements.

Answer: Alain Baxter

Alain and his brother Roger both skied in the 2006 Olympics in Turin without obtaining medals. Alain's positive test was later determined to have resulted from using a commercial inhaler. The resulting Olympic inquiry was controversial in that an American skier, Benjamin Raich, received the bronze after Baxter was disqualified and an American doctor, Don Catlin, testified in favor of the disqualification despite having been part of a three-person committee that routinely allowed U.S. Olympians to continue competing despite positive drugs tests.

Answer: Josep Guardiola

Guardiola was a very successful football player in his own right, having won the European Cup in 1992 while playing for Barcelaond; as part of Johan Cruyff's "Dream Team" of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Getting cleared of the drug charges was important because Italy had made taking steroids punishable by time in prison.

In fact, Guardiola was sentenced to a seven-month suspended prison sentence that was overturned by the 2007 decision.

Answer: Greg Rusedski

Rusedski and Henman enjoyed a great rivalry in the early 2000s, before Rusedski's retirement. Rusedski's positive test was overturned because the dietary supplements he received came from Association of Tennis Professionals trainers. The ATP panel which heard Rusedski's appeal agreed that Rusedski should not be sanctioned since the panel had cleared seven other players for the same supplements causing positive steroid tests.

Answer: To treat baldness

Finasteride is a component of the baldness drug Proscar or Propecia available from Merck & Company (known as Merck Sharp & Dohme outside of the USA and Canada). Gal is a successful sailor for Israel and was named the chair of the Israel Olympic Committee's athletes section in 2004.

Answer: Uta Pippig

Pippig challenged the positive test successfully by showing that she had abnormally low levels of epitestosterone and not elevated levels of testosterone. This abnormality was caused by Pippig having a chronic bowel disease while taking oral contraceptive medication. Pippig went on to found a charitable organization called Take the Magic Step to promote wellness education.

Answer: Kissing a woman at a DJ party

Gasquet was at the Miami Masters tournament in Florida. He withdrew from the tournament but, before leaving Miami, he decided to blow off steam and attend a dance music festival to see a French DJ. While there, he kissed a woman named only "Pamela" who apparently had used cocaine. The panel hearing his case agreed with his explanation and cleared Gasquet to play again.

Answer: Testicular Cancer

Strahija tested positive in October 2007 and immediately underwent surgery. He was exonerated by the International Swimming Federation in February 2008 and competed for Croatia in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Strahija had previously competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Answer: Antonio McKay

McKay and his doctor both had no idea that the flu remedy the doctor had prescribed for McKay contained the banned substance. As a result, McKay's ban was overturned. McKay went on to become a track coach in the Atlanta area at Dunwoody High School in Dunwoody, Georgia.

Source: Author dawgfan1995

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