Sprinter Dwain Chambers, who served a two year suspension after testing positive for anabolic steroids in 2003, has been named to the Team GB as a representative of Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London next month. While Chambers is thrilled to represent his country in the Olympics, the British Olympic Association (BOA) and former British Olympians likely would rather not see him there. [Read more…]
Jul
03
Brazilian Olympic Swimmer Busted Using Anabolic Steroids
The Confederação Brasileira de Desportos Aquáticos (CBDA), the federation that oversees the sport of swimming in Brazil, suspended an Olympic swimmer after an anti-doping urinalysis revealed evidence of anabolic steroid use. Glauber Silva tested “positive” for testosterone after failing the testosterone-epitestosterone (T:E) ratio test. Silva had qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London next month in the 100-meter butterfly competition. [Read more…]
Jul
02
Australian Olympic Committee Demonizes Stilnox.. and Caffeine
The Australian Olympic Committee apparently wants caffeine to be added to the list of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). John Coates, the president of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has gone public demonizing caffeine as a drug responsible for forcing athletes to use addictive sleeping pills and sedatives. [Read more…]
Jul
01
Boxer Antonio Tarver Tests Positive for Anabolic Steroid Drostanolone
Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver, who began his long professional boxing career shortly after winning the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, has recently tested positive for the anabolic steroid drostanolone. Bodybuilders and athletes may recognize drostanolone as the active steroid in Masteron. [Read more…]
Jun
30
Major Steroid Source in Poland Busted with Help of United States DEA
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been actively working with law enforcement officials in Poland to bring down individuals who have been accused of shipping anabolic steroids and other bodybuilding drugs to internet customers around the world. The long arm of American law enforcement may have set its sights on another major international steroid source. [Read more…]
Jun
29
Tour de France Becomes More Dangerous as Doping Decreases
On the eve of the 2012 Tour de France, the most prestigious annual race in professional cycling, Eric Niiler of Discovery News makes the argument that doping (the prohibited use of erythropoietin, anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, etc) has decreased. Niiler supports his argument, in part, by referencing data that indicates uphill riding times have been slower and red blood cell counts have been lower over the past decade. [Read more…]
Jun
27
Judge Releases Names of Jurors in Roger Clemens Steroid Trial
United States District Judge Reggie Walton released the names of all eight women and four men (along with four alternates) who served on the Roger Clemens jury. The names were provided in response to a Washington Post application filed shortly after the jury acquitted the former Major League Baseball player of all six counts of obstruction of Congress, false statements and perjury. [Read more…]
Jun
26
Matthew Dear Story of Fatal Steroid Overdose Revisited
“The Daily Mirror”, a popular daily British tabloid, has used the Jonny “I Want to Be a Bodybuilder” Spelman steroid scandal as a convenient opportunity to revisit the “steroid death” of teenager Matthew Dear. The Mirror has chosen to use the image of a dead Dear in a precautionary tale of what could happen to a teenager like Jonny Spelman who wants to be the “biggest guy there ever was.” [Read more…]
Jun
25
Marlon Byrd Suspended for Taking Tamoxifen
Major League Baseball player Marlon Byrd has been suspended for fifty games after violating the MLB Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Byrd tested positive for tamoxifen. Byrd subsequently admitting using tamoxifen and reported obtaining it from a “lifestyle coach” in Florida. [Read more…]
Jun
24
Musclebear Steroid Source Sentenced to Imprisonment in United States
The Ukrainians Oleksandr “Musclebear” Skochyk and Yvgeniy “Eugene” Suray have each been sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in United States federal prison. They previously pleaded guilty to charges related to the distribution of anabolic steroids to residents of the United States. “Musclebear” was an international steroid source based in the Ukraine. His organization shipped steroids to both individual customers and domestic remailers located in the U.S. The court outcome represents one of the limited successes in the federal government’s internationalization of its “war on steroids”. [Read more…]
