Category: Doping
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Olympic swimmer Sun Yang’s jail stint no piece of pie for fellow inmates
Read South China Morning Post After serving his week-long punishment for driving without a licence, Chinese Olympic swimmer Sun Yang managed to dodge a media scrum of almost 50 reporters when he was released from detention on Monday morning, Chinese media reported. Sun snuck out a side door of the Hangzhou detention centre at around…
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Clenbuterol contaminated meat still a problem in China
A valid question from Michael Jamieson on Twitter Heading to Beijing for last leg of the World Cup series! We’ve been advised to avoid eating red meat for risk of Clenbuterol contamination.. — Michael Jamieson (@mj88live) November 11, 2013 ..a banned steroid. We’re only here for 4 days, what do the Chinese athletes or…
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Indian swimmer Arjun Muralidharan banned 2 years for doping
Read The Hindu Champion swimmer Arjun Muralidharan has been handed a two-year ban by National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel after testing positive for stimulant Methylhexaneamine during the All India Police Aquatics Championships in March. The panel imposed a sanction of two-year ban on Muralidharan, starting October 25, a NADA source told PTI. “Arjun has been handed…
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Halifax swimmer Dmitry Shulga receives 11-month suspension after testing positive for banned substances
Read TheChronicleHerald The 24-year old Shulga, a member of the Halifax Wavecutters swim club, tested positive in-competition during the Eastern Canadian swimming championships in Montreal last February. His urine sample revealed the presence of prohibited stimulants, N-ethyl-l-phenyl-2-butanamine and 1-phenyl-2-butanamine, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) said in a release Wednesday. Bette El-Hawary, executive…
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Frans Johannesen handed 3 months suspension for doping at Danish Open
The Danish Swimming Federation today announces that the Danish Anti-Doping Agency has handed Frans Johannesen three months suspension for testing positive with Terbutaline at the Danish Open / World Trials back in March 2013, the suspension starting 12 May 2013 and excluding him from all competition and practice under the Danish Sports Federation in that…
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Estonian swim coach banned for life after spiking his athlete’s drink with anabolic steroids
Title says it all, read PostBulletin.com and see fina.org FINA says an Estonian anti-doping panel found that Nikolai Borzov gave Anita Stepanenko a drink containing stanozolol “without notifying the swimmer.” The Estonian Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel imposed undermentioned sanctions: Ms Anita Stepanenko (EST) – one (1) year ineligibility starting on July 23, 2013; Mr Nikolai Borzov…
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Former WADA boss Dick Pound says doping so widespread he no longer has faith in elite sport
Read for instance Mail Online “It’s pretty clear just from the numbers of people being caught that drug use is rampant, and it’s rampant at the top end of sports.” “This isn’t people ranked at No 300 taking drugs to boost them up the rankings, it’s the people at the top who have used drugs…
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Danish former pro cyclist: Mads Glæsner got off easy
A very interesting discussion here on Danish TV2, retired Danish swimmer Jakob Andkjær, Danish former professional road racing cyclist Niki Østergaard and Danish footballer Thomas Rasmussen and others discussing the two current doping cases in Danish swimming, plus doping and doping prevention in general. It is unfortunately in Danish only, but Niki Sørensen says when…
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Paltrinieri new 1500 SC World Champion, as Glæsner loses his medal
The Danish Swimming Federation today specifies in a new press release, that Mads Glæsner will not only lose his 400 meter freestyle bronze medal from the Istanbul 2012 World Championships (25m), but also his 1500 meter freestyle gold medal. This means that the world championship honor goes to Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri, the silver medal to…