Natalia Volgina
TWO Oceans Marathon women’s winner Natalia Volgina of Russia has tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid, the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (Saids) said on Thursday.
Volgina could face a two-year ban and be stripped of her title and R250,000 prize money if found guilty by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).… Continue Reading…
St Joseph’s Nudgee College
One of the states elite sporting schools has acknowledged a third student was involved in a steroids scandal that has rocked the institution.
Two students at St Joseph’s Nudgee College, aged 16 and 17, were arrested on Tuesday on charges of possession and supply of steroids. Both were expelled.… Continue Reading…
QUEENSLAND has become the nation’s steroids arrest capital as young men bulk up with drugs bought cheaply online from overseas.
Police commissioner Ian Stewart said the use of steroids among youths was “frightening”, and urged schools to be on alert in the wake of a scandal at Nudgee College.
National police figures to be revealed this month will show Queensland leads the country in steroids busts.… Continue Reading…
Australian Medical Association president Dr Steve Hambleton says young men are increasingly at risk of steroid pushers in schools
PARENTS would be “naive” to think the steroid scandal involving students from an elite Brisbane school was an isolated incident, the nation’s peak medical body has warned.
Australian Medical Association president Dr Steve Hambleton said every Australian school is at risk of being infiltrated by steroid pushers, with “ringleaders” taking advantage of increasing body-image pressures on young men.… Continue Reading…
(NEW YORK) – Ninety-seven percent of the American public believes that negative health effects existfrom using steroids, yet only nineteen percent believe that steroid use is a big problem among high schoolstudents, according to a groundbreaking national study announced today in New York City.… Continue Reading…
Mahmood Al Zarooni
The events of last week in England involving trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni and anabolic steroids is clearly something that will be occupying racing’s top administrators for some time. Harmonisation of rules even in respect of the (relatively) simpler areas like protests have proved difficult, but those are pebbles when stood against the monolithic obstruction of the different management of steroids issues in different jurisdictions along the road to a level playing field.
Racing’s chief vet estimates about 40 per cent of trainers use steroids on their horses, as Black Caviar’s handler Peter Moody hit back at his British counterparts over their queries whether his wonder mare might have been treated with anabolic steroids before her Royal Ascot win.
Racing Victoria’s head of veterinary services, Brian Stewart, says that the controlling body does not have systems in place to monitor the use of steroids so the best he can do is produce a ”guesstimate” on usage.
Gerald Butler – Trainer
BRITISH racing lurched back into crisis on Monday as a second Newmarket trainer admitted to using anabolic steroids on his horses.
Gerard Butler has told the BHA that several of his horses received treatment consisting of injections of anabolic steroids for injured joints. The trainer believes more than 100 racehorses across Newmarket may have been given the same treatment.… Continue Reading…
Roger Charlton has joined the chorus to ban the use of anabolic steroids worldwide.
The Beckhampton trainer’s comments came after Al Kazeem had won the bet365 Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown Park on Saturday.
Charlton trained Three Valleys when the colt was disqualified from the Middle Park Stakes in 2003 for failing a test for clenbuterol, a drug used to clear up a lung infection and aid normal breathing.… Continue Reading…
Trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni, left, and Simon Crisford, Godolphin racing manager arrive at British Horseracing Authority headquarters on Friday
Mahmood al-Zarooni has been disqualified for eight years by the disciplinary panel of the British Horseracing Authority after admitting administering anabolic steroids to horses in his care.
The Godolphin trainer said he had made a “catastrophic error” in using the banned drugs on a number of runners in his yard, including former Qipco 1,000 Guineas favourite Certify.
