Clearly 400m World and Olympic Champion LaShawn Merritt has been watching Austin Powers International Man of Mystery too many times. Merritt has been banned from competition with immediate effect and faces a lengthy ban by the International Association of Athletics Federations after he has been caught using a steroid.....for a penis enlargement.
Merritt won gold in the 400m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and then followed that up by winning the same event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin but was clearly not impressed by his own 'package' in the slow motion replays and turned to medicinal assistance.
When confronted by the allegation, Merritt did not think to much about his response as he could have used some better words to defend his actions rather than the following:
"To know that I've tested positive as a result of a product that I used for personal reasons is extremely difficult to wrap my hands around."
If Merritt was not already going to be the butt of all jokes on and off the athletics track, his own comments will have definitely 'raised' his profile. Lets just hope he can 'wrap' his head around his stupid mistake and learn from it.
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