Swimmer's Daily

Category: Doping

  • “Drugs cloud over world swimming championships”

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    Nice one Brazil, serve the journalists the opportunity to write headlines like this, followed by these intro words: “A damaging drugs scandal overhangs the world swimming championships in Shanghai, where a misfiring Michael Phelps will try to reignite his Olympic form.” It could have been this, quote Swimming World Magazine’s John Long: “The 2009 World…

  • FINA appeals César Cielo and the others’ doping case

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    FINA has decided to appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the decisions of the Doping Panel of the Brazilian Aquatic Sports Confederation, in the matters of positive doping tests to the substance Furosemide for the swimmers César Cielo Filho, Henrique Barbosa, Nicholas Santos and Vinicius Waked. The athletes are presently not suspended…

  • Barbosa and Santos removed from Brazil’s World Champonship roster

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    In conjunction with their positive doping tests, which resulted in the loss of results from the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, Henrique Barbosa and Nicholas Santos have been removed from the Brazilian World Championships roster. Vinicius Waked did not make the team, so he is naturally missing as well, and now only Cesar Cielo remains, having…

  • Something’s rotten in Brazil: This wasn’t Waked’s first offence

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    FINA will press for an urgent CAS appeal before pool racing at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships begin on July 24, if current investigations conclude that Brazil was wrong to issue only warnings to Cesar Cielo, Nicholas Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked for testing positive with furosemide. Especially Waked’s case looks suspicious, if the…

  • Lab now denies having contaminated Cielo’s supplement

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    Yesterday, we heard that César Cielo’s supplement contamination had been found and confirmed to be from the pharmacy where his usual supplement was prepared. Today, however, the pharmacy denies accordingly to swim.com.br, saying that they always take very careful sanitation measures, including never using the same tray on the same day, and that the cross-contamination was…

  • César Cielo tests positive for masking agent

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    At the Maria Lenk Trophy in May, 4 Brazilian athletes including Olympic and world champion César Cielo tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic banned because it can mask the use of doping products. The Brazilian doping control panel decided that only a warning was necessary because the swimmers have never produced a positive test before…

  • Subirats suspended for 1 year after administrative anti-doping error

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    Ouch, Venezuelan Albert Subirats, who won gold in the 50 fly and silver in 100 fly at last year’s World Championships in Dubai, has been suspended by FINA for 1 year, after three “filing violations” within an 18-month period. Meaning that he failed to properly notify FINA of his time and place for drug-testing availability.…

  • Water polo player Stanton felled by that dreaded Clenbuterol

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    James Stanton, Australia’s goalkeeper at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, tested positive for Clenbuterol during an out of competition test on September 15 last year, and has therefore been banned for 2 years, including the London 2012 Olympics. The 27-year old strenuously denies knowingly taking the substance, saying it “goes against everything I believe in”,…

  • Molina tests positive for stimulant, out of World Championships

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    Brazilian swimming legend Fabiola Molina has tested positive for Methylhexaneamine, a stimulant used heavily as a dietary supplement and a nasal decongestant, as well as in the street-drug known as “party pills”. The CBDA anti-doping commission determined that Molina’s use was not intentional or meant to gain any competitive advantage, so they gave her a…