Richard Gasquet's Life-Changing Kiss and the Lessons That Can Be Learned

Richard Gasquet kissed a girl, and the International Tennis Federation didn't like it. The kiss, according to Gasquet, caused him to inadvertently consume cocaine which led to a positive test and a two-year ITF ban in March at the Sony Ericsson Open. Almost five months later, a three-lawyer tribunal with the ITF concluded that Gasquet did in fact consume the cocaine from the kiss, ending his ban. Now the sports world has heard some classic excuses for failing a drug test. Manny Ramirez has his fertility drugs, Floyd Landis's elevated testosterone levels were "normal" and the list goes on. But who would have thought one of these excuses to be the actual reason? Gasquet's case is unique, very unique. The tribunal said the amount of cocaine in his system was no more than a grain of salt. Very potent cocaine or are the drug tests that good? Hard to judge, but it makes me wonder, are some of these athletes' excuses plausible? Certainly Ramirez wouldn't ...