Two serving Merseyside policemen who were involved in a plot to pedal body building steroids to fellow officers have been jailed for eleven years.
After being rumbled by an undercover colleague, detective Constable Paul Fletcher and Sergeant Paul Hornby of Merseyside Police pleaded guilty to nine drug offences.
From Clickliverpool.com:
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January 12, 2012 | Posted in
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The medical chief of FIFA, Jirí Dvorák, has called on anti-doping authorities not to take too hard a line against clenbuterol.
Authorities must be more understanding about how and why the substance gets into the body, said Dvorák.
From Insideworldfootball.biz:
Last month, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) performed a U-turn by abandoning its appeal to the Court of [...]
January 5, 2012 | Posted in
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The case of Alberto Contador that supposedly began with the cyclist eating some prime beefsteak on the second rest day of the 2010 Tour de France will start to draw to a close for four days, from November 21-24 at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
The triple Tour winner who tested positive for [...]
December 28, 2011 | Posted in
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China’s top quality watchdog has revealed it had found banned additive clenbuterol, commonly known as “lean meat powder” in China, in some imported pork products this year.
Clenbuterol was found in several batches of frozen pork products from the United States, Canada, and Denmark in July this year, according to the General Administration of [...]
December 14, 2011 | Posted in
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The lifetime ban on Iranian weightlifter Saeid Ali-Hosseini has been reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to 12 years.
Ali-Hosseini was barred by the CAS until October 2021 after the weightlifter tested positive for the anabolic steroid methandienone.
From Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
The court eased a lifetime ban imposed by the International Weightlifting Federation because of the circumstances [...]
December 1, 2011 | Posted in
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The production, sale, and use of clenbuterol hydrochloride tablets has been banned by China, as per a statement posted on the State Food and Drug Administration’s (SFDA) website.
Clenbuterol tablets are generally used to treat bronchial asthma and have been used illegally by farmers to make their pigs leaner.
From Thirdage.com:
According to the statement, the tablets’ [...]
November 16, 2011 | Posted in
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Mexican health authorities are finally making a crackdown on cattle merchants who use the banned substance clenbuterol to make the meat from livestock less fatty.
The effort was initiated after clenbuterol turned up in the urine of 109 players from various countries taking part in the Under-17 soccer world championship, an event hosted by Mexico in [...]
November 12, 2011 | Posted in
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A single bite of bad beef may mean a positive drug test for a Canadian athlete competing at the Pan American Games.
This is the reason why the Canadian team has been given strict orders not to stray outside the athletes’ village to eat, in a country plagued by positive doping tests blamed [...]
November 4, 2011 | Posted in
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Bernice Wilson has been suspended by UK Athletics after being charged with an anti-doping offence.
The British sprinter tested positive for the anabolic steroids, testosterone and Clenbuterol last month.
From News.BBC.co.uk:
UKA say Wilson has the right to a full hearing of the case.
The provisional suspension came into effect on 9 July. It was issued by UK Anti-Doping, [...]
October 8, 2011 | Posted in
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Alberto Contador’s doping case from the 2010 Tour de France was postponed Tuesday from next week to what may be late fall.
It would mean dragging out a matter that is more than a year old and prolonging an awkward issue for cycling.
From NYTimes.com:
The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that Contador’s final hearing about his [...]
October 1, 2011 | Posted in
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