Presentation of steroid use program
The picture of professional athletes is worsening each day with use of drugs for building muscle mass and jumping to the top of their game by becoming bigger, stronger, and faster.
According to recent data, the use of anabolic steroids, other appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs) has reached an alarming level among young people.
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Laraque’s allegations hurt NHL
George Laraque he is still getting under the skin of NHL players even after retiring long back from the NHL.
The ex-enforcer claims in his book “The Story of the NHL’s Unlikeliest Tough Guy” that the use of performance enhancing drugs was not contained to just enforcers like him but also extended to offensive stars.
From Foxnews.com:
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Session on healthy choices conducted
More than half a million high school athletes use performance enhancing drugs or supplements, each year, to try to get an edge on the competition, which is an undeniable fact in the books of most coaches.
“It’s a problem across the board…if not steroids, it’s the supplements (you can buy at health food stores) or the [...]
Anabolic steroid issue strike World Kabaddi Cup
The World Kabaddi Cup made headlines for the wrong reasons in sports magazines for reports that 13 of its players tested positive for anabolic steroids and stimulants.
The anti-doping tests conducted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were part of the pre-tournament drug testing of the players.
From Mirror.co.uk:
Groups lobbying for a clean and dope free [...]
Food Supplements blamed by tainted athlete
The disgraced athlete involved in the latest doping scandal, Aswini Akkunji, thinks the consumption of food supplements supplied to her and other athletes by athletics coach, Yuri Ogorodnik, would have been the reason for the failed dope test.
Akkunji claimed innocence as far as consumption of performance enhancing drugs is concerned.
From Daijiworld.com:
“Stock of food supplements in [...]
Arrest of FBI employees over use of steroids
Three FBI special agents and one FBI intelligence analyst were arrested recently on charges that they concealed the use of performance enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormones.
The four accused were charged by U.S. prosecutors for lying on forms that are used to assess fitness for duty by omitting that they had [...]
Tour de France and Doping Scandals
In the last few years, the focus of every one with an interest in cycling has changed from cyclists to the growing relationship between cyclists and anabolic steroids.
Big names Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador have been blamed of doping in sports.
From Reuters.com:
* 2010 - Alberto Contador, winner of the 2010 tour, tests positive for the [...]
US judge quashes appeal by Doug Barron
Doug Barron, who became the first golfer to be banned for using performance enhancing drugs, has received another jolt when his appeal to quash the ban was rejected by a US federal judge. It was ruled out the judge that it would not be fair on other players trying to qualify for [...]
No end to debate over use of steroids in baseball
There is no end to whether anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in professional sports such as baseball and this is very much evident from the fact that incidences of steroid use have not reduced ever since steroid era in baseball, which is considered by many as an amazing black [...]
New system to detect use of performance enhancing drugs
A new system to test athletes for performance enhancing drugs is presently being developed by scientists at the University of Nottingham.
The research is believed to provide a more reliable way to detect drug molecules in the body and is led by Professor Colin Snape in the University’s School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering and [...]