The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) president believes organized doping is behind the fifteen Greek athletes who have failed anti-doping tests before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Former 400-meter hurdles champion Fani Halkia, swimmer Ioannis Drymonakos, 400-meter runner Dimitrios Regas, sprinter Tassos Gousis and eleven unidentified Greek weightlifters all tested positive for the same prohibited anabolic steroid […]
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Conspiracy Against Greek Athletics Blamed for Failed Steroid Tests
Steroid Nation reports Greek 400 meter sprinter Dimitris Regas has tested positive for the anabolic steroid methyltrienolone. At least thirteen Greek athletes have failed steroid tests this year. It seems that all steroid tested athletes in Greece are testing positive for the same anabolic steroid which has never been commercially available. Earlier this year, eleven […]
Greek Weightlifters Test Positive for Anabolic Steroid Methyltrienolone
Eleven of the fourteen members of the Greek National Weightlifting Team have tested positve for the anabolic steroid methyltrienolone. Both samples A and B were positive for the steroid. This will likely result in the expulsion of the entire Greek Weightlifting Team from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Methyltrienolone is a very toxic oral anabolic steroid. […]
Opiate Antagonist Used to Counteract Addictive Anabolic Steroid Methyltrienolone?
Eleven members of the Greek Olympic Weightlifting Team tested positive for three banned substances. These have been identified as methyltrienolone (an anabolic steroid), buprenorphine (an opioid antagonist), and an anti-estrogen compound. There has been some speculation as to why, if the Greek athletes intentionally doped, would they use an opioid drug commonly used to overcome […]
Anabolic Steroid Methyltrienolone Kills 200 Bodybuilders
The Athens News, an English-language newspaper in Greece, has been covering the recent steroid scandal plaguing the Greek Weightlifting Olympic Team. The newspaper discusses the anabolic steroid methyltrienolone, one of the three substances in the failed drug tests for the eleven Greek weightlifters. The newspaper makes the preposterous and irresponsible claim that methyltrienolone killed 200 […]
Anabolic Steroids and the Drug Development Pipeline
I am told that articles on steroids are very popular. I guess there is some mystique surrounding chemicals that have the ability to dramatically transform one’s physique in a short period of time under the right conditions. You would think that people would get bored with this stuff after a while though, right? Well, apparently they don’t. […]