HAMILTON DECLARES RETIREMENT FROM CYCLING WORLD
Olympic gold-medal winner, Tyler Hamilton declares his retirement from the inetrnational cycling world on Friday because of his confirmation of steroid use. Hamilton said that he took the drug to battle the problem of depression.
Hamilton, the American cyclist, admitted using an over-the-counter homeopathic anti-depressant that contains the steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which is named in the [...]
WADA SAYS DRUG TESTS REMAIN INFALLIBLE
World Anti-Doping Agency said that the gene variation discovered to possibly effect the absorption of testosterone in the urine will not affect the results of the drug tests conducted in the Olympics to find out if the athletes were using steroids. The gene variation, UGT2B17, varies the testosterone and epi-testosterone (t/e) in urine samples depending [...]