General Doping Thread.

[fmk_RoI]

Back to supplements: UKAD, boxing and the Dillian Whyte case:

UK Anti-Doping and the professional boxer, Dillian Whyte, can today jointly confirm that Mr Whyte was charged with an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) earlier this year, but that this charge has now been withdrawn.

More questions than answers here so let's go from the top:

The British Boxing Board of Control, having delegated responsibility for anti-doping matters to UKAD, has been informed of the resolution of these proceedings against Mr Whyte.

Is UKAD's role in boxing like USADA's role in MMA? Boxing isn't part of WADA, has it's own rules, and the management is outsourced to UKAD?

The facts of the case:

• There is nothing in Mr Whyte's longitudinal urinary profile to suggest that he has used steroids.
• The levels of the metabolites found in Mr Whyte's 20 June 2019 sample were extremely low.
• Mr Whyte had provided a urine sample to VADA on 17 June 2019, i.e. 3 days before his 20 June 2019 sample, which was tested by a WADA-accredited laboratory and which returned a negative result, including for the metabolites in question.
• Mr Whyte provided several other doping control samples to UKAD and VADA between 20 June and 20 July 2019 (i.e. the date of his fight with Oscar Rivas) – all of which also tested negative.
• In light of the above points, the trace amounts of metabolites found in the 20 June 2019 sample are consistent with an isolated contamination event, and they are not suggestive of doping.

At the heart of it, then, UKAD are saying the Dianabol entered Whyte's system between the 17th and the 20th and by the 20th was in such low amounts they concluded it wasn't performance enhancing. Can we confidently assume this is a tainted supplement?

Has anyone looked at the actual rules here (soz, I'm being lazy today and not looking for them myself) and do they allow for thresholds, like the amended MMA rules do? Or is there a get out of gaol free card in the strict liability clause that allows UKAD to say "We ain't never caught this guy doping before and we really need to catch em twice in order to punish em once?"

 

[Merckx index]

At the heart of it, then, UKAD are saying the Dianabol entered Whyte's system between the 17th and the 20th and by the 20th was in such low amounts they concluded it wasn't performance enhancing. Can we confidently assume this is a tainted supplement?

Not necessarily. If dianabol was the drug in question (I'm going on your post, am not familiar with the case), that has a half-life of 3-6 hours. So if he had taken a large dose right after the test, it probably would have been detectable onlyin trace amounts 2-3 days later. If he was tested several times following that date, and was negative, that one hypothetical dose on the 17th or 18th would be all he took, which would seem unlikely. However, if he hadn't expected to be tested on the 20th, and as a result of that test he was told (or expected) he would be tested again soon, he might have stopped taking it altogether.

 

[fmk_RoI]

Here's one I didn't know: Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson sued supplement manufacturer Dynamic Life Nutrition for $8m after both popped positives which they blamed on supplements. The case was settled out of court.

And another one of these: UFC fighter Yoel Romero popped a positive for Ibutamoren in 2016 and served six months on the naughty step after convincing USADA that it was a tainted supplement that caused his positive. In May he won a lawsuit against Gold Star Performance Products, the makers of the supplement. He was award $27.45 million: $3m for lost income; $3m for reputation damage; $3m for emotional harm; all three trebled under New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act because Gold Star was found to have committed consumer fraud.

From the report linked above:

Given the relatively small scope of Gold Star Performance Products compared to supplement industry leaders, it remains to be seen what percentage of the $27.45 million Romero will receive before the company is devoid of cashflow and assets and forced to file for bankruptcy.

 

[F_Cance]

UCI Statement on Domingos Goncalves and UCI Professional Continental Team Caja Rural - Seguros RGA

www.uci.org

 

[fmk_RoI]

Any chance we could stop just posting links and maybe go to the bother of actually summarising the key point of the story? TIA.

 

[fmk_RoI]

Shayna Jack drops tainted supplement defence in favour of "cocaine kiss":

"There's the chance of it being in a contaminated supplement.

"The only unfortunate thing is I actually hadn't taken supplements in two months prior to that test."

Jack then outlined the "kiss cocaine case" defence.

"There was a case in the past called the 'kiss cocaine case' where someone had taken cocaine and then the partner, who was an athlete, kissed that person and they were contaminated because they had contact with something someone else had taken.

"I was told that anything I had come in contact with during that period could have been a risk of the contamination."

Deets

 

[wansteadimp]

Shayna Jack drops tainted supplement defence in favour of "cocaine kiss":Deets

Soon to move on to the contaminated gel capsules defense followed by the I drank too much beer excuse.

 

[BullsFan22]

Yesterday, WADA published a report on anti-doping violations from 2017.

WADA publishes Anti-Doping Rule Violations report for 2017

The Report highlights 1,804 confirmed Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) in 2017, involving individuals from 114 nationalities and across 93 sports 1,459 ADRVs came from Adverse Analytical Findings and 345 from non-analytical, evidence-based intelligence

www.wada-ama.org

Italy at #1, with 171, France at #2 with 128, US at #3 with 103. Russia at #5 with 82.
So why aren't those three countries (plus Brazil at #4) aren't banned as well? I'd be interesting to see the 2018 and 2019 lists. Hope they'll be available soon, rather than having to wait two years...

 

[GVFTA]

Yesterday, WADA published a report on anti-doping violations from 2017.

WADA publishes Anti-Doping Rule Violations report for 2017

The Report highlights 1,804 confirmed Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) in 2017, involving individuals from 114 nationalities and across 93 sports 1,459 ADRVs came from Adverse Analytical Findings and 345 from non-analytical, evidence-based intelligence

www.wada-ama.org

Italy at #1, with 171, France at #2 with 128, US at #3 with 103. Russia at #5 with 82.
So why aren't those three countries (plus Brazil at #4) aren't banned as well? I'd be interesting to see the 2018 and 2019 lists. Hope they'll be available soon, rather than having to wait two years...

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Plenty info in this thread

 

[BullsFan22]

Page 5 - WADA Getting Ready to Reinstate Russia

Page 5 - Get up to date with the latest news, scores & standings from the Cycling News Community.

forum.cyclingnews.com

Plenty info in this thread

Fine. I'll post the link there as well.

 

[Sciatic]

Reading an ESPN article about a Green Bay Packers (American football) running back, I noticed this:
" His goal entering 2019 was to trim body fat, so he eliminated candy from his diet. He maintained his weight of 205 but slashed his body fat percentage from 11% to 5.3%. "

Of course it's no surprise whatsoever, but it does shout 'NFL in the Aicar club'

 

[fmk_RoI]

Farah pops a positive for boldenone, the same drug that has seen Fernando Gaviria's brother-in-law Fabián Puerta sat on the naughty step since August 2018.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Farah pops a positive for boldenone, the same drug that has seen Fernando Gaviria's brother-in-law Fabián Puerta sat on the naughty step since August 2018.

Not Tyler Farah!

 

[BullsFan22]

Not Tyler Farah!

Or Mo Farah! LOL

 

[fmk_RoI]

Farah pops a positive for boldenone, the same drug that has seen Fernando Gaviria's brother-in-law Fabián Puerta sat on the naughty step since August 2018.

Let's run this one past the Clinic hivemind and see what comes out. As well as Farah popping a positive, a second tennis player went to the naughty step this week, Nicolas Jarry. A German media outlet spoke to someone at the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in Nuremberg, Fritz Sörgel ("a recognized doping expert", it says, although I doubt many here would be able to pick him out of a line-up) and he came up with this ...uh ... ingenious bit of ... well that's for you to decide, I hesitate to call this logic:

"Suppose a substance can only be determined at a value of 1. Then the athlete simply takes five different substances with a value of 0.2. These then add up to 1, with the same effect, but cannot be tested positive. But you have to master that, but Jarry's adviser doesn't seem to. He mixed at least two preparations that he thought were undetectable. With the Ligandrol I am not surprised that it went wrong. The substance is chemically very different from the well-known steroid anabolic steroids and has not been scientifically investigated compared to the latter. ”

(Translation from German by Google's babelfish.) To me, this looks a bit like Enron accounting, where you turn one power station into a thousand power stations by mathemagics. Or like that hotel porter puzzle with the ten dollars that only adds up to nine. Any of the more sensible folk around here got a take on it? Jarry got caught for ligandrol and stanozolol. If that's two of his 0.2s, what options are there for the other three to be?

 

[BullsFan22]

Let's run this one past the Clinic hivemind and see what comes out. As well as Farah popping a positive, a second tennis player went to the naughty step this week, Nicolas Jarry. A German media outlet spoke to someone at the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in Nuremberg, Fritz Sörgel ("a recognized doping expert", it says, although I doubt many here would be able to pick him out of a line-up) and he came up with this ...uh ... ingenious bit of ... well that's for you to decide, I hesitate to call this logic: (Translation from German by Google's babelfish.) To me, this looks a bit like Enron accounting, where you turn one power station into a thousand power stations by mathemagics. Or like that hotel porter puzzle with the ten dollars that only adds up to nine. Any of the more sensible folk around here got a take on it? Jarry got caught for ligandrol and stanozolol. If that's two of his 0.2s, what options are there for the other three to be?

Just saw you posted about the two positives. Here's the news from tennis magazine.

Doubles No. 1 Farah tests positive for banned substance boldenone | Tennis.com

In addition, Nicolas Jarry, the 38th-ranked singles player last July, has been suspended for doping.

www.tennis.com

 

[King Boonen]

Let's run this one past the Clinic hivemind and see what comes out. As well as Farah popping a positive, a second tennis player went to the naughty step this week, Nicolas Jarry. A German media outlet spoke to someone at the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in Nuremberg, Fritz Sörgel ("a recognized doping expert", it says, although I doubt many here would be able to pick him out of a line-up) and he came up with this ...uh ... ingenious bit of ... well that's for you to decide, I hesitate to call this logic: (Translation from German by Google's babelfish.) To me, this looks a bit like Enron accounting, where you turn one power station into a thousand power stations by mathemagics. Or like that hotel porter puzzle with the ten dollars that only adds up to nine. Any of the more sensible folk around here got a take on it? Jarry got caught for ligandrol and stanozolol. If that's two of his 0.2s, what options are there for the other three to be?

I'm guessing the translation might be poor, because I think what he really is trying to say is that you can replace 1 effective, but easily detected, substance with several other substances at levels below the limit of detection/specification, whose effects adds up to the same as that one substance (which you probably worked out). His example is silly, because if the substance can only be determined at 1, you'd take it at a level of 0.9, along with the 5 other things, also at a level just below detection, and get 1+ benefit (5.4 to take his dodgy maths to completion).


As for how to do this, I'd suppose you'd look at the specified substance list and work out how much of these you can take without tripping the wire. Non-specified substances are harder, because their detection can be lab dependent (paging Berto...) so if you were planning this you'd need to have a good idea of where your samples are going to end up.

If I'm honest, I think that's probably a lot more work than most dopers go to. I would think most rely on wide windows in testing outside competition and some basic clearance times found on the internet (how long does such and such a product make you "glow" for). Because of variation in metabolism and efficacy of drugs from person to person, you'd need to do a fair bit of testing to work out what particular cocktail falls into Sörgel's suggestion and while you're doing that you run the risk of falling foul of anti-doping.

 

[F_Cance]

Denise Betsema free to race as UCI announces back-dated six-month ban

Dutch rider set to rejoin Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal and return to racing with immediate effect

www.cyclingnews.com

Although the minimum sanction for a positive steroid test would typically be four years, the UCI anti-doping rules provide for reduced bans for unintentional anti-doping rule violations (10.2.1.1).

Great that microdosing can now be seen as unintentional.

 

[GP Blanco]

Denise Betsema's provisioneel suspension has been ended by UCI.

Denise Betsema mag weer crossen: "Ontzettend blij en opgelucht"

Denise Betsema mag per direct weer in actie komen voor Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal. De UCI heeft in een persbericht duidelijk gemaakt dat haar voorlopige schorsing, naar aanleiding van een positieve test op anabole steroïden, zes maanden duurde en al ten einde is. Na een ijzersterk seizoen, waarin de...

www.wielerflits.nl

 

[fmk_RoI]

If I'm honest, I think that's probably a lot more work than most dopers go to.

This is probably where I found Sörgel's "logic" most annoying: he presents it as a simple math problem. Product X has a testing threshold of Y, therefore you simply substitute it for a cocktail of five products with the same combined testing threshold.

First, there's the assumption that performance gain is somehow linked to testing thresholds. And that vice versa all products have comparable thresholds. Then there's the question of how do you know the testing threshold. And glow time for each of the substituted products.

Yes, I do get that people have been use cocktails of drugs for performance gain. But - as with claimed performance gains for kit - it is rather simplistic to think the numbers add up and substitution is so simple that you can do the math on the back of a dearest comrade packet.

Sörgel may be right in saying that Jarry testing positive for two substances suggests substitution and not contamination, but elsewhere in that interview he suggests as proof of Nadal's doping that he is Spanish.

 

[fmk_RoI]

do the math on the back of a dearest comrade packet.

A dearest comrade packet? Sounds like Soviet condoms ("I am sorry Vladimir, you cannot explore my vast steppe without your dearest comrades. I cannot afford the morning after pill and you cannot afford the antibiotics."). Not what I wrote though. I used a slang word for cigarette. Three letters, begins in F, ends in G, in between is the indefinite article. Feck off if that's censorable.

If the forum software is going to edit us I do think it should indicate it has done so.

 

[brownbobby]

Farah pops a positive for boldenone, the same drug that has seen Fernando Gaviria's brother-in-law Fabián Puerta sat on the naughty step since August 2018.

An interesting and relevant fact about Boldenone....in addition to promoting steady increases in strength and muscle mass, its also well known for rapidly increasing red blood cell production.......a bit like EPO on steroids if you like

 

[King Boonen]

A dearest comrade packet? Sounds like Soviet condoms ("I am sorry Vladimir, you cannot explore my vast steppe without your dearest comrades. I cannot afford the morning after pill and you cannot afford the antibiotics."). Not what I wrote though. I used a slang word for cigarette. Three letters, begins in F, ends in G, in between is the indefinite article. Feck off if that's censorable.

If the forum software is going to edit us I do think it should indicate it has done so.

Unfortunately I don’t think the software has the nuance to allow such exceptions, but I can ask. I also don’t think it’s capable of indicating words have been changed, but I think that’s mainly the point.

 

[F_Cance]

De Vuyst now going the Betsema way

KOERS KORT. Scheldeprijs voert enkele parcourswijzigingen door - Ook B-staal Sofie De Vuyst positief

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www.hln.be

nothing can go wrong with Maeschalck as your lawyer:
-defended Leinders
-avoided a ban for someone with more clen than Contador
-avoided a ban for cocaine Boonen
-defended Keisse
-got a ban lifted for someone with 2 EPO positives
-defended Betsema

Also interesting what Sporza wrote back then about De Vuyst:

"If my info is correct, it seems to me to be a very complex story, where for the time being nobody can be blamed for something. [...] Because it's such a complicated case that I've never seen before. Maybe it's even a world first. "

Dutch and Belgian made really try to wash their athletes clean. It's always supposed to be something "never seen before", "more complicated than it looks" or whatever.
The "contamination" excuse is really getting old

 

[Bavarianrider]

Rudy Pevenage's book will be releases tomorrow. Apparently tells everything about Doping with Telekom.