‘No one should know that’: Thorpe opens up drug test nightmare that rocked legendary career
Ian Thorpe was rocked to his core during a drug test nightmare that briefly clouded his status as one of Australia ’s greatest Olympians.
Thorpe was stunned to wake up one morning to be told French newspaper L’Equipe had reported that he had returned an unusual level of testosterone during a standard anti-doping test in Australia. “An irregular test isn’t uncommon. They happen. So firstly, no one should know that information to begin with,” Thorpe says in the book, per theHe said at the time the speculation that he was a cheat was “so upsetting” and the way the information was leaked to French journalist made him feel “deeply alarmed”.
He told News Corp he is grateful for his actions at the time because today he is happier and more comfortable with himself than he ever has been.Even before his Sydney 2000 Olympics heroics, Thorpe was on the world stage as one of Australia’s biggest sporting stars ahead of a home Games.He now says in the book he tried to “withdraw” from the situation — which ultimately made it even more difficult to make his sexuality public.
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