Doping in other sports?

[D-Queued]

Hysterical

The 24-year-old four-time Olympic medallist blamed the injection - administered last July - for a positive drug test on urine samples he provided in September, before the Asian Games.

July to September? Seriously?

Are they that stupid? Doesn't the MD have a lawyer who can count?

Dave.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

July to September? Seriously?

Are they that stupid? Doesn't the MD have a lawyer who can count?

Dave.

the mind boggles...

 

[D-Queued]

the mind boggles...

On the other hand, perhaps this is a convenient way to let their guy off.

Maybe the MD isn't even an MD, but some sort of out-of-work stage actor.

Dave.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Link


Anti-doping experts have voiced their concern that drugs cheats are going undetected in amateur sport because limited resources mean that the authorities? efforts are concentrated at the elite level.

The huge rise in amateur events in the UK, especially in cycling, has coincided with an increasing number of amateur athletes banned from competition, despite limited testing at lower levels. The former rugby coach for Surrey?s U15s, a woman boxer, and a cyclist are among non-elite athletes recently banned for drugs violations.

(more at the link)

Article in the Independent yesterday

 

[bobbins]

Link


Anti-doping experts have voiced their concern that drugs cheats are going undetected in amateur sport because limited resources mean that the authorities? efforts are concentrated at the elite level.

The huge rise in amateur events in the UK, especially in cycling, has coincided with an increasing number of amateur athletes banned from competition, despite limited testing at lower levels. The former rugby coach for Surrey?s U15s, a woman boxer, and a cyclist are among non-elite athletes recently banned for drugs violations.

(more at the link)

Article in the Independent yesterday

There might be an increase in fun events like the Ride London and other sportives but competitive cycling is dying.

Having said that, there are plenty of amateurs taking the gear these days, I've notified UKAD about 2 that I know of. No action taken so far which goes to show that positives aren't seen as positive.

I reckon that missed tests / blood passport cases are preferred rather than actual black and white positive tests.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Having said that, there are plenty of amateurs taking the gear these days, I've notified UKAD about 2 that I know of. No action taken so far which goes to show that positives aren't seen as positive.

I reckon that missed tests / blood passport cases are preferred rather than actual black and white positive tests.

Thank you for doing the right thing, a shame that it hasn't lead to noticeable action though.

 

[LeakyBoat]

Link


Anti-doping experts have voiced their concern that drugs cheats are going undetected in amateur sport because limited resources mean that the authorities? efforts are concentrated at the elite level.

The huge rise in amateur events in the UK, especially in cycling, has coincided with an increasing number of amateur athletes banned from competition, despite limited testing at lower levels. The former rugby coach for Surrey?s U15s, a woman boxer, and a cyclist are among non-elite athletes recently banned for drugs violations.

(more at the link)

Article in the Independent yesterday

From the article: Lower-level rugby players dominate the list but it's accompanied by two cycling photos.

 

[sniper]

...

I reckon that missed tests / blood passport cases are preferred rather than actual black and white positive tests.

that makes sense.
A missed test violation means "look how much we test our athletes", so the ADA looks good yet it also enables the athlete to save face, deny doping and get away with a short ban.
win-win.

do you have any indications of UKAD surpressing positives or handing out silent bans?

 

[veganrob]

Link


Anti-doping experts have voiced their concern that drugs cheats are going undetected in amateur sport because limited resources mean that the authorities? efforts are concentrated at the elite level.

The huge rise in amateur events in the UK, especially in cycling, has coincided with an increasing number of amateur athletes banned from competition, despite limited testing at lower levels. The former rugby coach for Surrey?s U15s, a woman boxer, and a cyclist are among non-elite athletes recently banned for drugs violations.

(more at the link)

Article in the Independent yesterday

Yep, yet we are supposed to believe that once they reach the highest levels of sport they magically go cleans. Incredible.

 

[bobbins]

that makes sense.
A missed test violation means "look how much we test our athletes", so the ADA looks good yet it also enables the athlete to save face, deny doping and get away with a short ban.
win-win.

do you have any indications of UKAD surpressing positives or handing out silent bans?

There were plenty of silent bans back in the 90s. Glandular fever was always a good cover story!

 

[Catwhoorg]

There were plenty of silent bans back in the 90s. Glandular fever was always a good cover story!

I'm just going to flat out state that my glandular fever which kept me out most of a rugby season in the early 90s was actually genuine.

Can't speak for anyone else though

 

[blackcat]

There were plenty of silent bans back in the 90s. Glandular fever was always a good cover story!

and non-bans. Australian swimmers in 90s?

What is a non-ban called?

rugsweptundery

 

[blackcat]

There were plenty of silent bans back in the 90s. Glandular fever was always a good cover story!

in US terms, mono

 

[sniper]

There were plenty of silent bans back in the 90s. Glandular fever was always a good cover story!

cheers.
Roger Black springs to mind.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1303098/Olympian-Roger-Black-beaten-Epstein-Virus.html

He was sent for blood tests and subsequently diagnosed with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes mononucleosis, otherwise known as glandular fever.

'The diagnosis came as a relief,' says Black. 'That was the point when I knew I wasn't being weak ? there was something wrong.'

However, he was frustrated there was no treatment.

'I couldn't just take a pill,' he says. 'The doctor said I needed to rest and rebuild my immune system, but no one could say how long it would take. I needed to let go ? but as an athlete you want to be in charge of your body.'

...

The measures he took to combat this were drastic. He relocated to the Institute of Sport in Canberra in Australia, where he rested and slowly built up his training over six months.

Black also looked to complementary therapies such as acupuncture and yoga.

'Leaving the country took the pressure off me. Yoga enabled me to breathe and switch off from things that might be worrying me ? which has got to be good for your immune system. I still do yoga today.'

....

within 18 months of the symptoms first appearing, Black was back at the top of his profession.

He won Olympic silver medals at the 1996 Atlanta Games for the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. He says: 'Coming back from the virus was the hardest thing I had to do in my career.'

cool story Roger

 

[the delgados]

https://sports.vice.com/video/painkillers-in-the-nfl-nate-jackson-on-hurt-vs-injured

Can someone listen to this interview of a former NFL player and tell me why PED's aren't mentioned?
I once knew a former NCAA Division 1 football player who didn't hesitate to answer yes when I asked if he was on the juice.
I feel terrible for the Nate Jackson's of the NFL world who took a boat-load of painkillers to endure the pain of playing in the NFL; his story is certainly sad.
My guess about why he and others don't mention steroid use is that it's an afterthought. It's just what you have to do.

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

There's a new wrinkle in the PEDs positive of Anderson 'Spider" Silva at UFC 183. He had two OOCs prior to the fight. He tested clean ten days after the OOC he failed, so there is no evidence he still was juiced when he fought. Which could give Dana White the flimsy excuse he's desperate to find to let his cash cow off with a (oh so gentle) slap on the wrist.

 

[Random Direction]

Low level baseball coach and pals busted with a steroid lab. Of course he is innocent.... Likely was supplying a bunch of recreational jocks in Vancouver and Victoria - as well as the affiliated baseball teams. Hope the cops got the client list and forwarded it along to CCES.

"I'm innocent and I’m going to defend the charges, that’s all I can tell you right now,” he said.

Court documents describe how Canadian Border Services Agency investigators executed a search warrant at a building on West 3rd Avenue in Vancouver last February, and found a clandestine lab.

Inside was a large amount of anabolic steroids with an estimated street value of several hundred thousand dollars, according to the documents."

Authorities allege smuggled raw powder was used to produce injectable liquids, dropper bottles, and pills.


Read more:*http://bc.ctvnews.ca/ex-youth-baseball-coach-charged-in-steroid-ring-1.2225144#ixzz3RbLtPJI2

 

[Catwhoorg]

Luke Crunden, another British Rugby Union player banned for 2 years by UKAD

Clomiphene, Nandrolone
(Anabolic steroid + SERM to mitigate the undesired effects)

Cinderford (National League 1 so 3rd tier).

Player taking 'natural Testosterone booster'. Admits Charge and ADRV.

Specifically he says they were "Androtest and what I believe was Reversitol V2"

 

[neineinei]

The Swedish swimmer Magdalena Kuras got a public warning only for missing a test.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/simning/article20318138.ab

 

[neineinei]

Swedish sailor Pontus Dolfei got 30 months for testing positive for cannabis and cocaine.

http://www.svensksegling.se/Forbundet/Nyheter/2015/1akvartal/Dopingfallisvensksegling/

Miss a test: tsk tsk.
Test positive for pseudoefedrine at the Olympics: tsk tsk.
Party party in Stockholm: 2 and a half year ban.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Swedish sailor Pontus Dolfei got 30 months for testing positive for cannabis and cocaine.

http://www.svensksegling.se/Forbundet/Nyheter/2015/1akvartal/Dopingfallisvensksegling/

Miss a test: tsk tsk.
Test positive for pseudoefedrine at the Olympics: tsk tsk.
Party party in Stockholm: 2 and a half year ban.

lol, absurd.

 

[D-Queued]

The Swedish swimmer Magdalena Kuras got a public warning only for missing a test.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/simning/article20318138.ab

My Swedish isn't that good, but I thought that the standard was that three missed tests are required for a suspension?

(Not that we haven't seen suspensions after one, of course, but that is another - as yet not fully revealed - story)

Part of the 2009 update to The Code formalized that provision:

The 2009 Code formalizes the past WADA recommendation that any combination of three missed tests and/or failures by an athlete to provide accurate whereabouts information within an 18-month period as determined by the anti-doping organizations with jurisdiction over the athlete shall constitute an anti-doping rule violation.

Dave.

 

[Nicko.]

Swedish sailor Pontus Dolfei got 30 months for testing positive for cannabis and cocaine.

http://www.svensksegling.se/Forbundet/Nyheter/2015/1akvartal/Dopingfallisvensksegling/

Miss a test: tsk tsk.
Test positive for pseudoefedrine at the Olympics: tsk tsk.
Party party in Stockholm: 2 and a half year ban.

1 wasn't a missed test, she didn't hear/get the testers instructions and left the pool deck to fill her waterbottle - she couldn't be tested after that
2 NHL+IOC ...
3 substance! positive test!

 

[neineinei]

1 wasn't a missed test, she didn't hear/get the testers instructions and left the pool deck to fill her waterbottle - she couldn't be tested after that
2 NHL+IOC ...
3 substance! positive test!

It was a missed test. She was informed that she was to be tested, stay in the pool till it is your turn and we'll get you. She left the pool and was outside the tester/chapeone's control for a while. The testers couldn't test her: missed test.

 

[D-Queued]

It was a missed test. She was informed that she was to be tested, stay in the pool till it is your turn and we'll get you. She left the pool and was outside the tester/chapeone's control for a while. The testers couldn't test her: missed test.

If that was the situation, then yes, missed test.

Others have been sanctioned two years for a similar story.

Dave.