Josh Gross, Sports Illustrated, 10/21/2010
The Ultimate Fighting Championship, in hopes that it might shift the culture of competitive mixed martial arts away from a widely adopted philosophy that rationalizes the use of illegal drugs to enhance performance — i.e. everyone does it, people will always cheat when opportunity or money is on the line — should immediately and forcefully declare it no longer wants to be in the business of promoting steroid users.… Continue Reading…
(Reuters) – Three FBI special agents and one FBI intelligence analyst were arrested on Wednesday on charges that they concealed their use of performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormones.
U.S. prosecutors charged the four individuals with lying on forms that are used to assess their fitness for duty by omitting that they had conditions requiring the drugs and that they had taken them.… Continue Reading…
University athletes are clearly the best and the brightest, but what makes so many want to inject themselves with toxic sludge in the pursuit of excellence?
Don Hooton thinks he has the answer.
“A lack of knowledge,” said the Texas-based anti-doping crusader who brings his message to the University of Waterloo’s varsity athletes and local high school coaches this week.… Continue Reading…
BERLIN — Teenage athletes were also subjected to doping under communist East Germany’s vast programme of steroid abuse, a leading former sports official has admitted in his upcoming new book.
Thomas Koehler, former vice president of the East German sports association DTSB, is the first high-ranking member of the defunct Stalinist state’s sporting establishment to acknowledge that minors were also doped.… Continue Reading…
A recent op-ed on these pages by filmmaker Richard S. Schiffrin takes the view that Congress and the Administration have expended too much time and resources investigating the use of steroids by Roger Clemens and other professional baseball players.
One of the stars of UFC fighting has been closely linked to steroids by law enforcement. Yet, the leadership of the UFC is standing behind their fighter because he never tested positive under their random testing program.
What a joke! These testing programs are full of holes big enough to drive a Mack Truck through them.… Continue Reading…
The doping scandal at the University of Waterloo highlights the TREMENDOUS weaknesses of our current random testing programs. Up until this situation developed, officials at all levels could hang their hat on the belief that random testing programs proved the absence of drug usage in Canadian athletic programs. As it turns out, nothing could be further from the truth.… Continue Reading…
YOUNGSTERS are being warned of the dangers of anabolic steroids by a former fitness fanatic who developed heart problems.
Stephen Pratt was just 18 when he started taking the drugs to improve his physique, and his weight soon leapt from 10 st 7lbs to 13st 7lbs.
He stopped taking steroids in January, but was rushed to hospital in May because his resting heart rate was 150 beats per minute – when it should be 60 to 80.… Continue Reading…
Another tragic death of a performance enhancing drug user has been recorded. Whether his apparent suicide was related to his past use of performance enhancing drugs may never be known.
Don
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
Antonio Pettigrew, a graduate of St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh who was stripped of an Olympic gold medal after admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs, was found dead early Tuesday, authorities said.
Los Angeles Times – Sports
Taylor Hooton, 17, committed suicide; his parents say it was because of mood swings brought on by steroids. Young people need to know that even for a major-league star, there are consequences for steroid use.
The answer to the question of why Congress would spend time and money attempting to prove that a prominent athlete lied is found in a name.… Continue Reading…
