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Warne rejects drugs ban appeal

Top Aussie sledger Shane Warne has decided not to lodge an appeal against the playing ban imposed on him for testing positive for drugs at the cricket World Cup.

Warne, who was recently voted one of the five blondest cricketers of all time, shocked lovers of the Summer game when revealing he had been heavily using crack cocaine to reduce his chin total from three to two.

Doping investigators reported at the time that the ex-pot of lard Warne's body contained enough of the banned substance to have fuelled a full side of 11 for three tests.

Immediately after the test results were announced Warne protested that he had never ever taken such a drug. Or at least not deliberately. And not even then unless his mum put it in with the rest of his tucker and he consumed it unwittingly. He vowed to fight to clear his good name.

Yesterday afternoon however, at an emotional press conference by the swimming pool at his suburban Sydney hideaway, Warne explained exactly why he has decided to swallow his pride like he used to swallow cheeseburgers back in the 1990s.

"There are many reasons why I have decided not to query the ICC's unfair decision: I have no wish to undermine the organisation behind the World Cup or to bring the game into disrepute. Above all else I don't have any better explanations than the ones I've already given."

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