A leading Canadian University has suspended a football program after nine players were found to violate anti-doping policy during a special investigation.
Coaches of the team were placed on paid leaves along with cancellation of football programs for the coming season while the University of Waterloo in Ontario conducts its review.
From NYTimes.com:
The university called in the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the country’s antidoping agency, in March after the police charged a football player, Nathan Zettler, with trafficking a wide array of anabolic steroids as well as human growth hormone and tamoxifen, a breast cancer treatment often used to offset undesirable effects of steroids.
College football in Canada, though not as popular as it is in the United States, is the only college sport in Canada that serves as a training ground for a professional league, the Canadian Football League.
The C.F.L. is negotiating its first antidoping program with its players.
Copeland said the large number of positive results from the testing of the entire team suggested that Canada’s regular drug-testing program for university athletes can be easily evaded.
It was remarked by Bob Copeland, the university’s director of athletics that he was disappointed and surprised at the same time and consider this incident as a wake-up call for people across Canada.
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