Olympic Champion Shaun Ryder Fails Drugs Test
Happy Mondays star stripped of medal
Happy Monday's singer Shaun Ryder revealed yesterday that he failed a drugs test at Salt Lake City. Ryder won a silver medal for Britain last week in the Snowball competition, but has had this taken away from him by Olympic authorities.
Ryder is battling the decision, in an attempt to clear his good name, claiming that although he tested positive for 57 different drugs, none of them were performance-enhancing.
"Its just not on, like, y'know what I mean? I won that medal fair and square, like, and now they're trying to take it away from me," said Ryder yesterday, "I reckoned the drugs test would be a doddle, cos I was up all night revising for it, but then when I turned up they didn't ask me any questions or anything. That's fully wrong."
Ryder's coach, Derek Hoovermatic, stood up for the athelete:
"I fully believe that Shaun is innocent of these charges of knowingly taking any medicine or substance to improve his performance," said Hoovermatic, "He'd have been far too drunk to notice what he was taking."
Bez was too busy shaking a pair of old maracas to be available for comment.
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