The International Olympic Committee wanted to permanently keep steroid users, who have served bans greater than 6-months, out of the Olympic Games. However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that the IOC’s so-called “six-month rule” was “invalid and unenforceable” and violated the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules. [Read more…]
Steroids in Sports
Masters Shotputter Banned from Track for Using Steroids
A 63-year old master athletes was banned for using anabolic steroids at the USA Masters Track & Field Championship on July 28, 2011. Stephen Craig Shumaker, competing for the Long and Strong Throwers Club, tested positive for exogenous testosterone. [Read more…]
Steroid Use in Sports is a “Highly Commutable Epidemic”
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and national anti-doping agencies have been treating the use of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) like an epidemic in sports. They have shown little regard for athlete privacy with increasingly more invasive and intrusive testing requirements. Athletes have given up considerable liberties in order to participate in high-level sports. After all, anti-doping crusaders see anabolic steroids and PEDs as one of the greatest threats to the health of the sport. This justifies whatever means they choose in order to accomplish their end goal of eradicating doping in sport. [Read more…]
Cleaning Staff Trained to Spy on Suspected Steroid Users at 2012 Olympics
Anti-doping officials are conceding that drug testing alone has not been particularly effective at catching athletes who use anabolic steroids and/or other performance-enhancing drugs. In spite of conducting a “world record” of over 5000 anti-doping blood and urine tests at the 2012 London Olympics, United Kingdom Anti-Doping admits that their secret weapon in the war on steroids will include a highly-trained cleaning staff. [Read more…]
Texas Cracking Down on Steroid-Using Bodybuilders “Wanting to Cheat the System”
The head of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is working to stop the flow of anabolic steroids to bodybuilders “wanting to cheat the system.” Bodybuilders who use steroids are apparently not only breaking the law but are also immoral cheaters according to Lt. Phillip Cash. The term “cheater” is usually applied to athletes involved in competitive sports who use performance-enhancing drugs in violation of the sport’s anti-doping code; they cheat the other athletes who presumably follow the rules. Yet bodybuilders who use steroids outside of a sporting context in order to improve physical appearance aren’t really “cheating” anyone else. Nonetheless, Lt. Cash asserts they are cheating “the system”. [Read more…]
National Level NPC Bodybuilder to Attend Steroid Education Classes
The Dansbury Superior Court has accepted NPC bodybuilder “PJ” Braun into a drug education program where he will apparently learn about the evils of anabolic steroids. Braun faced three counts of possession of a controlled substance, three counts of possession of prescription legend drugs and one count of possession of narcotics. All charges will be dropped upon the successful completion of the drug education program. While it is unlikely that Braun will learn anything new about steroids, there is a good chance the he will be able to teach the instructor a thing or two about the drugs. [Read more…]
The Hardy Boyz and the Case of the Not-So-Secret Steroid Cache
Just as the steroid case against professional wrestler Jeff Hardy concluded, Moore County investigators have initiated a separate steroid case against his brother Matt Hardy. Moore County Sheriff’s deputies experienced a sense of deja vu when they returned to Boys Camp Road in Cameron this week and raided MATT Hardy’s home. They found 20 vials of anabolic steroids which allegedly belonged to Matt Hardy. [Read more…]
Roger Clemens’ Steroid Supplier Gets Second Chance at Baseball Facility for Kids
The New York Daily News reports that Brian McNamee has been named the new general manager of Baseball Plus. Baseball Plus is a state of the art facility offering private, professional baseball instruction. It has been described as the “mecca” for kids aspiring to become professional baseball players. Steve Diamond and Rod Ganis, the owners of Baseball Plus, have given McNamee a second chance at being involved in the sport he loves. McNamee’s life fell apart after he was named as the steroid dealer who provide anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens in the Mitchell Report. [Read more…]
Roger Maris’ Family Wants Baseball to Acknowledge Steroid Era
The family of Roger Maris wants Major League Baseball to acknowledge the influence that the use of anabolic steroids has had on current records. Roger Maris set the home run record of 61 runs when he broke Babe Ruth’s single-season record in 1961. The record stood for 37 years until 1998 when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa shattered it. Barry Bonds currently holds the single-season home run record. Bonds, McGwire and Sosa have all since been linked to steroids and have become poster boys of baseball’s so-called “steroid era”. [Read more…]
Misconceptions About Steroids in Bodybuilding Refuted by Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler
The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently interviewed Jay Cutler about the bodybuilding lifestyle on the eve of the 2011 Mr. Olympia contest. The four-time Mr. Olympia champion used the opportunity to dispel some of the misconceptions about bodybuilding. At the top of his list was the perception that bodybuilding is simply a matter of consuming anabolic steroids.
“It’s a fringe sport, a cult sport. Misunderstood,” explained Cutler. “They think we work out eight hours a day, and they have that theory, ‘If I took steroids, I’d look like him.’ ” [Read more…]