Category: Doping
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Danish World Champion Mads Glæsner 3-month ban for doping at Istanbul 2012
The Danish Swimming Federation announced today that FINA has handed Mads Glæsner a 3-month ban for doping at the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m). I will try to explain the situation briefly here in the following, but read the official press release if you can, or wait for the press release from FINA. The…
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Danish national team member Frans Johannesen tests positive for Terbutaline
Danish and Faroese swimming is shell-shocked today by the news that Danish national team member Frans Johannesen at the Danish Open 2013 meet in March was tested positive for Terbutaline. Frans himself thinks that the positive test is because of the asthma medication he used during the Danish Open. – “I am used to using an…
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Danish anti-doping agency receives major grant
Read Jyllands-Posten The Culture Ministry is giving Anti Doping Denmark a nearly one million kroner grant to help it combat the growing use of steroids and growth hormones in the nation’s gyms and fitness centres. Steroid use is rampant in some centres, with Danes as young as 14 reportedly shooting themselves up in pursuit of…
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Spanish doping doctor Fuentes’ secrets for sale
Read The Guardian The convicted sports-doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes is threatening to reveal the dirty secrets of the world’s major sporting events as he offers to sell his story to newspapers after being convicted on public health charges in Spain for his role in helping top cyclists to cheat. Fuentes, considered one of international sport’s…
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Omar Pinzon (COL) suspended 2 years for cocaine offense
Read SwimmingWorld Colombian Olympic swimmer Omar Pinzon has been suspended for two years after testing positive for cocaine last November. […] Pinzon, who is the South American record holder in the 200-meter backstroke in long course (1:56.40) and short course (1:52.34), has been training under Dave Salo at the Trojan Swim Club in Los Angeles…
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Lance Armstrong formally banned from U.S. Masters Swimming events
Read for instance SwimmingWorld A few hours after FINA, the global organization that oversees aquatic sports, sent a letter to U.S. Masters Swimming recommending that Lance Armstrong be denied permission to swim in a Masters meet this weekend, USMS has banned the former cyclist from any future Masters swim meets. So that would be the…
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Lance Armstrong withdraws from Masters Swimming event
Read CBS 11 via SwimmingWorld U.S. Masters Swimming Executive Director Rob Butcher says Armstrong has decided not to try to swim in the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas this weekend after swimming’s international governing body raised objections. Armstrong had been entered in three distance events. But Switzerland-based FINA sent…
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Yekaterina Andreyeva also banned for doping
A tough weekend in Russia, summarized for instance here on SwimNews. 3 swimmers banned and 1 warned for doping, 19-year-old Yekaterina Andreyeva banned for 18 months for testing positive in November, and 14-year-old Dariya Ustinova warned. The others were 23-year-old Ksenia Moskvina banned 6 years for a second doping offense and 24-year-old Natalia Lovtsova banned for 18 months.…
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Russian swimmer Natalia Lovtsova banned for doping
Read SuperSport Russian swimmer Natalia Lovtsova has been banned for two and a half years for doping, Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA announced on Saturday. “The Russian Swimming Federation has banned Lovtsova for a violation of the anti-doping code for two and a half years from November 30, 2012,” the agency stated on its website. Lovtsova…