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. […]
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Texas Steroid Network Sold Steroids to Shaun Kelley Weight Control Clinic
One of the co-defendants in the David Jacobs federal steroid investigation claims to have sold personal use quantities of anabolic steroids to Shaun Kelley, owner of Shaun Kelley Weight Control Clinic in Houston (“Suspect says he sold performance-enhancing drugs to clinic tied to Clemens,” April 24). A co-defendant in the Plano steroids trafficking ring linked […]
Steroid Seizures by Australian Customs in First Quarter 2008
Australian Customs has reported over 300 anabolic steroid seizures during the first three months of the year. This reportedly exceeds steroid seizures from previous years. The increase in steroid shipments confiscated by customs prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is similar to increases seen prior to the 2000 Sydney Olympics (“Steroid imports not […]
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Loses Its First Doping Case
Track sprinter LaTasha Jenkins is the first athlete to win a doping case against the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). She was charged with an adverse analytical finding after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in both Sample A and Sample B in July 2006. She was banned from competition for two years. Last week, the World […]
Austrian Legislation Will Criminalize the Possession of Anabolic Steroids
Following the revelation of an international doping scandal centered in Austria, the Austrian government has announced legislation that will criminalize mere possession of anabolic steroid and/or other performance enhancing drugs. Previously, there was no punishment for possession of steroids (“Austria to tighten anti-doping law,” April 18). Legislation to tighten Austria’s anti-doping laws by criminalising possession […]
Jose Canseco’s Steroid Source Claims He is Anti-Steroid
Joseph Dion, currently a Miami-based personal trainer, told two Sports Illustrated reporters that he was the individual identified as “Max” in Jose Canseco’s book Vindicated. Canseco claimed that Max was a steroid dealer who provided baseball player Alex Rodriguez with steroids. Dion has refuted Canseco’s claims and told Sports Illustrated that he is completely anti-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 […]
Jose Canseco to Reveal Steroid Sources to Federal Investigators?
Federal investigators are going to ask Jose Canseco about the true identity of a steroid dealer identified as “Max” in his latest book on steroids in baseball, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball. Canseco says that baseball player Alex Rodriguez received steroids from “Max” (“Investigators to Ask Canseco: Who Is Max?” […]
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 […]
Steroid Users Largest Client at UK Needle Exchange Programs
Anabolic steroid users represent the largest client at needle exchange programs in the United Kingdom according to the weekly current affairs magazine, the New Statesman (“Shape of the future: observations on bodybuilding,” April 17). In recognition of the increasing number of steroid users entering needle exchange assistance programs, steroid expert William Llewellyn, author of Anabolics […]