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In reply to the discussion: OMG! Braun Wins Appeal!!! [View all]

chelsea0011

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13. There was no "flawed" chain of custody.
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 08:54 AM
Feb 2012

By most accounts protocol was followed. Braun is now attacking the chain of custody. But if the tester is to be believed everything he did was within the protocol. There are two samples taken and both tested positive. The second test is a more rigorous test if the first comes back positive. That, as what I have read, this is what happened. Braun is nothing but lucky in this. He isn't fighting the results but the manner in which the sample was handled. So, he is implying that something could have "happened" to the sample. This smacks of OJ when his defense also questioned the chain of custody and how a sample was precessed later than usual even though protocol was follows. Manny Ramirez probably should have fought his results. He also never tested positive for PED's but had high testosterone levels. I would like to see the tester come out and smack down Braun by saying he did nothing wrong and Braun's implications are false.

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