Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Drug Scandal Rocks Tour de France

Stallone, seen here at a recent ‘Finger My Blog’ rally, was the early favorite of The Tour.

A major doping scandal threw the first Tour de France of the post-Floyd Landis era into chaos Friday, with favorite Sylvester Stallone forced out of the world’s premier cycling race under a cloud of suspicion. Aging Hollywood hunk Sylvester Stallone faces stiff fines after prosecutors said 48 vials of human growth hormone were found with the actor. The maximum penalty for bringing growth hormones illegally into Australia is a fine of $86,000 and five years in prison.

Chuck Norris, the lawyer for Stallone, the 60-year-old star of the "Rocky" and "Rambo" movie franchises, represented him in a Sydney court on Tuesday where he faces one charge of importing a banned substance. “Stallone isn't likely to receive such a sentence,” explained Chuck Norris, “Because as he told Rob Schneider in Judge Dredd, ‘He is the law’”.

Human Growth Hormone is officially considered a performance-enhancing drug in Australia, and it cannot be imported without a permit from the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

In the United States, on the other hand, the drug is promoted and encouraged among athletes since it’s virtually undetectable…

1 comment:

Avon Marksdale said...

I heard Stallone fingers this blog three, four, even five times a day.