Olivier Renière banned
Steroids have once again brought trouble for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football.
A running back with the Université de Montréal Carabins, Olivier Renière, was found to be using a substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s 2011 “prohibited list” and will be banned for two years from all CIS sports.
From Cupwire.ca:
Renière’s adverse result came out of [...]
Positive tests in India trials
According to NADA (National Anti-Doping Agency), ten out of 21 samples taken during a trial for the second Kabaddi World Cup have tested positive for banned steroids and a stimulant.
Kabaddi players’ samples contained prohibited steroids stanozolol, boldenone, nandrolone, and stimulant phentermine.
From Hindustantimes.com:
Doping is a major problem in Indian sport and NADA has been forced to [...]
Police report disclose steroid use in Belgium
An increase in the amount of steroids seized in 2010 has been revealed by a report by the Belgian report that also provided details of two cycling-related incidents.
“In 2009 the use of anabolic steroids has overtaken that of all other illegal performance-enhancing drugs,” Francis Clarysse, the Ghent public prosecutor and coordinator of the [...]
Sale of nandrolone products banned
A British Government agency is to order the withdrawal from sale of all supplements containing anabolic steroid, nandrolone, which is at the centre of dozens of positive drug tests in sport.
Twenty-four competitors from 10 different sports in Britain alone tested positive for the b in 1999-2000, with most, including the 1992 Olympic 100 [...]
Game of football has one more cheater
The failed drug test of Kolo Toure is not new to the world of football that has already seen some of the biggest stars falling prey to name and fame.
The failed test also highlights the fact that the relationship between anabolic steroids and football is still on a surge despite tall claims by anti-doping authorities.
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Previously suspended athletes win Olympic golds
Two eastern European women who have served doping suspensions in the past have won Olympic gold medals after women’s world hammer champion Mihaela Melinte was escorted from the arena for failing a drugs test.
Olga Shishigina of Kazakhstan, who has served a two-year drugs ban, won the 100 metres hurdles in front of sentimental favourite [...]
Young to challenge life ban
Jerome Young is keen to overturn the life ban imposed on him after he failed to clear a drug test. Young was stripped of the gold medal he won in the 2000 Sydney Olympics for testing positive and expressed doubts over the reliability of the test for erythropoietin.
Young first tested positive for nandrolone [...]
DESPRES STILL DISMAYED OVER SUSPENSION
Serge Despres cannot hide his dismay over the suspension that was ruled by the Canadian Centr for Ethics in Sports for having detected nandrolone in his urine during a routine blood test in 2008. The bobsleigh pilot who competed in Turin, Italy in the 2006 Winter Olympics said the decision was unfair and he felt [...]