We’re not sure which is more remarkable — the attempt at the excuse, or that it actually worked. From the AP:

Richard Gasquet escaped a lengthy doping ban Wednesday when the International Tennis Federation’s tribunal panel ruled that he inadvertently took cocaine by kissing a woman in a nightclub.

The 23-year-old Frenchman, who was cleared to resume playing after completing a 2½-month ban on Wednesday, convinced the independent anti-doping tribunal that he ingested cocaine with the kiss with the woman he had just met.

The tribunal panel of three lawyers said Gasquet consumed no more than “a grain of salt” of the drug, and a long ban would be an injustice in a case that was “unusual to the point of being probably unique.”

This of course reminds us of the time Matthew LeCroy was spared a suspension after Bud Selig concluded that his positive test for opium came as a result of eating 100 lemon poppy seed muffins.

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