O’Sullivan reveals how he evaded drugs testing

World snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan claims to have “pushed his luck” by taking drugs during his career, to the point where he was desperate for tournaments to be over in order to avoid being tested.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Oct 2013, 10:35 BST

O’Sullivan, who won his fifth world title in May, lost his 1998 Irish Masters crown after testing positive for cannabis and suffered numerous problems as he looked for stability on and off the table.

“When I was having my weekly benders and my private life was in bits, I had a brilliant year professionally,” he said in his new autobiography, Running.

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“I remember getting to every World Championship and thinking, ‘I can’t wait til this tournament is over ‘cos then there’s no more drug tests, I can go out and smash it’.

“I’d got caught once in my career, but that’s all. I’d get tested between events, and I was trying to judge it perfectly so there’d be no drugs left in my system, but I was pushing my luck.”