Category: Doping
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What is Ligandrol? Is Ligandrol legal?
Is ligandrol legal? Can atletes use it? What is it? This video briefly covers what is ligandrol, and focuses on its legality (or lack thereof). In short, it is not legal, and should not be used. The evidence in relation to its use and side effects is still preliminary and particularly buying it from suppliers…
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Shayna Jack faces maximum suspension
Australian swimmer Shayna Jack has reportedly been officially notified she will be suspended from swimming for four-years for failing a doping test.
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What is Ligandrol, the drug swimmer Shayna Jack had in her system?
Ligandrol, which is also known by the development codes LGD-4033 and VK5211 and the name Anabolicum, was initially developed by the company Ligand Pharmaceuticals in the United States. It was patented in 2009. The results of the first human clinical trial were published in 2013, where taking Ligandrol was found to increase muscle mass without also putting on fat. The…
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Shayna Jack not alone in returning a positive drug result for Ligandrol
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) was forced to deny any involvement in leaking the positive drug result to the public. Executive director Cornel Marculescu has been very vocal in his distaste for Mack Horton’s stance against Sun Yang. Horton infamously refused to stand on the podium with Yang following allegations the Chinese athlete was tampering…
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Austin swimmer training for Olympic dream
KXAN’s Gary Cooper reports she’s not letting that experience stand in her way.
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Shayna Jack has ‘a lot of explaining to do’
Shayna Jack has “a lot of explaining to do†if she is to reduce the four-year ban reportedly set to be imposed on her for failing a doping test, according to former Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority chief Richard Ings.
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Shayna Jack: The swimming scandal that has embarrassed Australia
Australian swimming is being accused of hypocrisy after an Olympic hopeful said she returned an abnormal drug test just days after teammate Mack Horton’s high-profile protest against a Chinese rival suspected of a doping offence. Read BBC https://youtu.be/-uofCMxHKpk https://youtu.be/6FMfbEonQq4 https://youtu.be/YVM1utLrevg https://youtu.be/BX5zGuQerCM https://youtu.be/wM_kanss1jg https://youtu.be/3jxWeoSMLHU
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Olympic swim champion Ruta Meilutyte retires at 22 after missing doping tests
Lithuanian swimmer Ruta Meilutyte announced her retirement on Wednesday at the age of 22 after missing three doping tests, ending a career in which she became Olympic and world champion. Lithuania’s swimming federation said earlier this month that Meilutyte faced a suspension of up to two years for missing three drug tests, meaning she would…
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Madisyn Cox suing vitamin company after suspension
Madisyn Cox is suing Cooper Concepts and Cooper Aerobics, claiming the Dallas-based companies “produced, distributed, and sold” a multivitamin that turned out to be tainted with Trimetazidine.