Doping in other sports?

[Rob5091]

The once sport of gentlemen, is now involved in the drug trade - cricket (the sport not the insect!)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66816892
Former Australian star cricketer Stuart MacGill has been charged over his alleged role in a large cocaine supply plot.
Police arrested the 52-year-old, who played 44 Test matches for Australia, in Sydney on Tuesday.
Their investigation was sparked when MacGill was allegedly abducted and beaten in 2021.
...
In an interview following the alleged abduction, MacGill said "I've done nothing wrong" and police at the time said he was "purely" a victim.
Six people - including his then-partner's brother - have been charged over the incident.

But after a two-year probe, police have now also charged MacGill with taking part in the supply of a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug.
Local media have reported the alleged deal involved more than $300,000 of cocaine.

 

[Sciatic]

Equine doping - “quite unprecedented” - from the Emerald Isle -
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...positive-in-irish-doping-scandal-horse-racing
(QUOTE!)
Luke Comer, the billionaire co-founder of Comer Group, one of Britain and Ireland’s largest property developers, has had his trainer’s licence suspended for three years by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) after 12 of his horses tested positive for anabolic steroids in October and November 2021.

Comer was found to be in breach of Ireland’s anti-doping rules after a nine-day hearing in front of the IHRB’s referrals committee in May, details of which emerged on Thursday.

The doping scandal, which the committee described as “quite unprecedented” in Ireland, emerged after a hair sample from Comer’s He Knows No Fear tested positive for the anabolic agents methandienone and methyltestosterone after finishing fourth of 12 runners in a Listed race at Leopardstown in October 2021.

Investigators then conducted out-of-competition tests on horses at Comer’s stable and found 11 more positives. All the horses concerned have been banned from racing for two years.

Comer, who told the hearing that he “only spends about three months of the year in Ireland”, denies that he or his staff were involved in administering steroids to the 12 horses.

He also told the hearing that he believed hay fertilised with contaminated pig slurry could have caused the positive tests.

However, the panel decided that this was “unlikely”, and while it did not conclude that the steroids had been administered deliberately, it held Comer, the licensed trainer, liable for the presence of prohibited at all times (PAAT) substances in the hair samples.

In addition to the three-year suspension of his licence, Comer, who is one of the wealthiest businessmen in Europe, was fined €5,000 for each of the dozen breaches of the anti-doping rules.

He was also fined €5,000 after telling the committee that he had “an unblemished record” as a trainer despite having “multiple breaches of the Rules in the past”, and faces a legal bill of around £644,000 after being ordered to pay 80% of the IHRB’s costs. (END QUOTE!)

What an a-hole!

These doping excuses are really giving pigs a bad name

 

[Tim Cahill]

Benfica employee detained in doping sting, though no word if the club is connected.

Porto just glad it's not them for once I imagine.

Funcionário do Benfica detido em operação da PJ que desmantelou laboratório clandestino de doping

É suspeito de liderar uma rede de importação e distribuição de esteroides anabolizantes em vários ginásios

www.record.pt

The Judiciary Police confirmed the arrest of a Benfica employee, as part of the operation that dismantled a clandestine doping laboratory , suspected of leading a network of import and distribution of anabolic steroids in several gyms.


The Judiciary Police explained in a statement today that it managed to "dismantle a clandestine laboratory for the mass production of anabolic substances, probably the largest to date identified and located", in the metropolitan area of Lisbon.

Executing "11 search warrants, 6 of which were at home and 5 were non-domestic, and two arrest warrants were also served, outside of flagrante delicto", "several laboratory equipment and industrial machines for the production of these substances (oral and injectable)" were seized. as well as "prohibited substances, with a finalized production process and already packaged and labeled, containing cartons, blisters, holograms, leaflets, which enabled the doping products in question to enter the market, with the appearance of certified production and legitimate laboratory production".

Also according to the PJ's statement - which also reveals the "seizure of more than 250 thousand euros in cash and digital assets, namely cryptocurrencies, as well as four luxury vehicles, valued at around 300 thousand euros" -, the Two detainees have already been presented to the judge. One of them was placed in preventive detention and the other was given bi-weekly presentations and banned from contact.

 

[Aimar16]

No surprise then why the soon to be 36yo di Maria is flying in portugal while he was a real donkey at Juventus last season.

 

[Izzyeviel]

ST. LOUIS -- Milwaukee Brewers right-hander J.C. Mejia was suspended 162 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday after his second positive for a performance-enhancing drug.

Mejia tested positive for Stanozolol and became the first player suspended under the major league drug agreement since San Diego's Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended for 80 games on Aug. 12 last year.

Mejía was suspended 80 games on May 17, 2022, after his first positive test for Stanozolol, a synthetic steroid derived from testosterone.

There's no doping in baseball!

 

[Sciatic]

There's no doping in baseball!

Wow, to get caught for the same substance two times, under MLB’s not so stringent doping testing system is pretty impressive!

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Wow, to get caught for the same substance two times, under MLB’s not so stringent doping testing system is pretty impressive!

I think once you get to be old enough the doping (anti-doping) cycle just keeps on repeating itself no matter the professional sport, so you just end up laughing and let the younger generations deal with it.

MLB targeting someone for doping violations is pretty impressive though, what did this dude do to piss the MLB off?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I think once you get to be old enough the doping (anti-doping) cycle just keeps on repeating itself no matter the professional sport, so you just end up laughing and let the younger generations deal with it.

MLB targeting someone for doping violations is pretty impressive though, what did this dude do to piss the MLB off?

162 games is like, one season though. First offence half a season, second offence a whole season.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

162 games is like, one season though. First offence half a season, second offence a whole season.

Yes, but what did he specifically do to piss MLB off?

I remember the days of Balco when just about every "great" hitter got busted...

 

[Sciatic]

162 games is like, one season though. First offence half a season, second offence a whole season.

At least it’s a bit more stringent than the NFL, which I think is only 4 games ((sometimes reduced to 2) for 1st offense.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

At least it’s a bit more stringent than the NFL, which I think is only 4 games ((sometimes reduced to 2) for 1st offense.

As long as they pretend to follow the concussion protocol I suppose everything is all right...

My apologies btw., I feel like I'm being obnoxious to our fellow athletes/spectators now.

 

[wansteadimp]

Wow, to get caught for the same substance two times, under MLB’s not so stringent doping testing system is pretty impressive!

Can't be very smart, imagine not changing your supplement supplier after he let you down already /s