KISS ALMOST COST ROBERTS DEARLY

Gil Roberts, who won Rio Olympic gold on the US men's 4x400-meter relay, was cleared of doping after an arbitrator found he ingested a banned substance by kissing his girlfriend. In the weeks before the March 24 positive test by Roberts, Salazar and her family had visited rural India, where she received medicine for a sinus infection that included the banned substance. She returned home and saw Roberts while still taking the medication Moxylong, which contained probenecid. "Whenever they were together, they kissed frequently," the USADA report said. That included the day of the random doping test, when his sample was taken about three hours after she had last taken the medicine. "Surely he had kissed her before without being charged with a doping violation," the report said. "Thus, for Roberts, it must have been like lightning out of a clear blue sky for him to learn that by kissing his girlfriend he was exposing himself to a prohibited substance." –Afp