New York Post
5 August 2019
D.J.
Cooper suspended by FIBA for fraud urine which showed he was pregnant
[…] D.J. Cooper, a former Ohio University
star who’s played professionally in Europe, is currently suspended by FIBA
after using someone else’s urine for a doping test — a sample which showed
Cooper was pregnant, according to Eurohoops.net. […] It’s unclear what Cooper
might have been trying to hide, but it stands to reason he wouldn’t have used
his girlfriend’s urine had they known she was pregnant. […]
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Add this report to the catalogue of true,
fictitious, or unverified stories of men’s switched urine samples revealing
them to be pregnant. Some of these tales are quite old.
Plinio Prioreschi, Medieval Medicine (Omaha: Horatius Press, 2003), 583.
He [the Duke] sent him instead the urine of
a chambermaid. Notker [after examining the specimen] said: “The Lord is going
to perform an unheard-of miracle. A man is going to have a baby! In about
thirty days the Duke will give birth to a child and will nurse him.” The Duke
was shamed by the man of God, accepted his medical care, sent him gifts, and
the chambermaid, reputed to be a virgin, repented and confessed to the
physician of St. Gall. She gave birth as he had predicted.
Prioreschi assumes this incident actually
occurred, which is unlikely. For more legends of the results of switched urine
samples, see Michael Stolberg, Uroscopy
in Early Modern Europe, trans. Logan Kennedy & Leonhard Unglaub (New York:
Routledge, 2016), 132-134.
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