The NFL has suspended San Diego Chargers strong safety Steve Gregory for four games without pay.

Gregory was suspended for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

From Signonsandiego.com:

Gregory said in a statement released by the Chargers that he appealed the suspension, and was denied. The suspension was announced a day after he intercepted Derek Anderson in a 41-10 win against the Arizona Cardinals that pulled the Chargers to 2-2.

“I was completely shocked to find out about this positive test from May during the offseason,” Gregory said in a statement. “I have never knowingly used any form of performance enhancing substance. However, as an athlete I know that I am responsible for everything that goes into my body. I appealed these test results, and through this process I was disappointed to learn today that I am going to be suspended for the next four games.

“It is tremendously upsetting to me, but I fully respect and support the NFL‘s policies. I will take this as a learning experience and come back stronger and as committed as ever. I apologize to my teammates, coaches, the organization, fans, and my family and friends. I look forward to moving past this and helping my team win a championship this year.”

The substance the player tested positive for was not revealed by the NFL as well as Gregory.

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The Australian Open Champion, Petr Korda, was stripped of the prize-money and world ranking points he accrued at Wimbledon.

The punishment was handed over to Korda after testing positive for anabolic steroids.

From Independent.ie:

An appeals committee established that Korda, 30, had breached the sport’s anti-doping programme. However, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) took account of the “exceptional circumstances“ in that Korda “did not know he had taken the relevant substance.”

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) was, however, of the view that the tennis player did not know he had taken the relevant substance.

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Two eastern European women who have served doping suspensions won Olympic gold medals after women’s world hammer champion Mihaela Melinte had been escorted from the arena for failing a drugs test.

Ellina Zvereva, 39, of Belarus became the oldest woman to win a track and field gold and Olga Shishigina of Kazakhstan, who has served a two-year drugs ban, won the 100 metres hurdles in front of sentimental favourite Glory Alozie from Nigeria.

From Independent.ie:

In unprecedented scenes at an Olympic Games, Romanian Melinte was told she had also tested positive for nandrolone and was led away from the field.

The IAAF general secretary Istvan Gyulai said the world governing body had rejected Melinte’s excuse that she had ingested the anabolic steroid from a food supplement. CJ Hunter used the same defence at his news conference.

Several other Olympic and world champions failed to survive the day – but for differing reasons.

Jinxed Gail Devers, Nourredine Morceli, Svetlana Masterkova and ageing Sergey Bubka joined the ever-growing champions’ casualty list as all failed to reach their respective finals.

Devers, a double Olympic sprint champion but who has never won her favoured 100 metres hurdles event, crashed out of the semifinal after clipping a barrier.

Shishigina’s fiance was killed by a car in Sydney before the start of the Games.

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According to drug rules that are set to be agreed at the World Anti-Doping Conference in Madrid, athletes found guilty of heavy-duty steroid abuse will face bans of up to four years for a first offence instead of the existing two years.

The new punishment for the most serious of doping offences follows a scientific study that has revealed that performance-enhancing effect of anabolic steroids could last as long as four years.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

The lengthening of the ban has the backing of Professor Arne Ljungqvist, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee medical commission, who said: “The study shows quite clearly that the changes in the muscles that occur in people who are on steroid regimes and programmes last well beyond two years, even three or four years and possibly more.

“This means that for people who have doped systematically, like we know many people have, the steroids may have benefits much longer than the length of their ban, so it would be unfair to let them back.”

Ljungqvist confirmed that had the rule been in place for the summer’s World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Ukrainian Lyud-mila Blonska, who beat Britain’s Kelly Sotherton to the heptathlon silver medal, would not have been eligible to compete.

Guilty athletes who co-operate fully with the anti-doping authorities will have the chance to get the punishment reduced by providing credible evidence of doping among other athletes or their support personnel.

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Abel Xavier is making a desperate struggle for clearing his name and resume his iddlesbrough career after UEFA disclosed that the defender’s B sample had tested positive for a performance enhancing drug.

The defender was suspended from all competition after a routine urine test was found to contain traces of a banned substance, which has been confirmed as an anabolic steroid.

From Independent.ie:

The former Portugal defender, who has insisted that there is a “reasonable and entirely harmless explanation” for the controversy, will be required to appear before a disciplinary committee at Uefa’s headquarters in Switzerland a week on Thursday. Xavier has claimed he “never” intended to dope himself, but that is not regarded as an adequate defence.

Xavier was tested at random by drug collection officers after Middlesbrough’s 0-0 draw away to Xanthi, the Greek side, in the UEFA Cup. His club were informed of the positive result on October 15 and he was omitted from their home match against Portsmouth the next day.

It is understood he told Middlesbrough that he had been taking a legal food supplement imported from the United States.

While his employers have signalled their intention to support the player, they would be within their rights to terminate his one-season contract with immediate effect were he to be found guilty of taking Dianabol, which is the trade name for methandrostenolone.

A year’s suspension could be expected though the football authorities reserve the right to treat cases individually.

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Tommy Conlon Pieter de Villiers accidentally ended up with a cocktail of cocaine and ecstasy coursing through his bloodstream after he and his Stade Francais team mates went out for a feed of drink after beating Harlequins.

The South African-born French rugby player is now facing a ban of two years after a random test on December 18 picked up traces of the drugs.

From Independent.ie:

“I might have fallen into a trap,” he said last week, “but I have never knowingly taken cocaine or ecstasy.”

Ah yes, “knowingly.” No statement by any athlete caught with his or her steroids down is complete without the knowingly protocol. And these days it is met only with knowing nods of disbelief from all but the incurably innocent.

De Villiers would have played against England next weekend but at 30, his international career may be over.

If he was playing for Australia he might have had a better chance of getting away with it. In March 2001 the Australian wing Ben Tune took the banned drug Probenecid. Tune claimed he used it for a gash on his knee that was not responding to antibiotics.

Probenecid has powerful healing properties when used in conjunction with antibiotics. It is primarily used by power athletes as a masking agent for anabolic steroids. His medical advisers claim to have prescribed it and subsequently informed the Australian Sport Drug Agency. He played two Super 12 games before ASDA contacted the Australian Rugby Union.

If his statement is any thing to believe, Pieter de Villiers probably had received an unfair deal.

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The career of Geraldine Hendricken received a lifeline thanks to a lab in Cologne.

The athlete from Ireland sent the laboratory two samples of the dietary supplement she had been taking prior to her out of competition positive dope test and it seems that one of them contained enough anabolic agents to provide a positive test.

From Independent.ie:

The supplement is known to be plant based and is used for its weight loss properties.

Hendricken is still waiting on the Athletics Association of Ireland to finalise their arbitration panel to look into her case, but it now looks likely that she will learn her fate before the end of the month.

The international athletics body, the IAAF, has a strict liability rule with regard to positive nandrolone tests which states that the athlete is responsible for any illegal substance found in their system, so it is unlikely she will get off scot free.

However, this latest evidence, which suggests that she inadvertently took the banned substance, could work in her favour and the normal sentence of two years could well be reduced.

Traces were found of metabolites similar to 19-Norandrosterone, a precursor to the anabolic steroid Nandrolone that produced positive test for the athlete.

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Officials from the Woodstown Barracks of the New Jersey State Police have disclosed that a man was recently arrested after police gained entry into his residence and discovered various amounts of illegal and prescription drugs.

Police initiated a narcotics investigation in early February and obtained a search warrant for the residence of David Boucher, 23, of Forest Lane, according to Trooper Jason Bobo.

From NJ.com:

Police entered Boucher’s residence without incident Thursday and seized approximately 8.5 ounces of high-grade marijuana, valued at roughly $4,250, as well as anabolic steroids, marijuana smoking pipes, and various amounts of prescription drugs, said Bobo.

He added that an additional $2,000 in cash was also seized from Boucher.

Boucher was arrested at the scene and interviewed at the Woodstown State Police Station, Bobo said.

According to police, Boucher was charged with narcotic and related offenses, including narcotics possession and distribution, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of prescription legend drugs, and possession of steroids.

The NJSP TEAMS Unit, NJSP Canine Unit, Woodstown Criminal Information Office, Salem County Prosecutor’s Office, Carneys Point Police Department, NJSP Troop A Intelligence Office, and Woodstown state police personnel assisted in the arrest.

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A shocking survey of athletes in Britain has revealed the widespread use of the controversial dietary supplement marketed as a legal alternative to anabolic steroids, creatine.

Nearly 57 percent said they had taken creatine, in a poll of elite men and women athletes conducted by The Independent newspaper.

From Independent.ie:

Creatine is a substance found naturally in the body and in foods such as meat and fish. Sold legally over the counter in synthetic form as an amino acid powder, it helps build muscle and speeds recovery from training.

Among those who have used creatine and hailed its benefits are members of the England national soccer team, league and FA Cup double winners Arsenal, and athletics stars Linford Christie , Colin Jackson and Sally Gunnell.

But some experts believe the substance could have adverse long-term health effects.

Some doctors suggest it causes kidney damage, while others link it with shorter term problems such as muscle cramping and dehydration.

The figure was a startling 100 percent among weightlifters and rugby league players.

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The possibility of a retest of urine samples taken from the 1999 Tour raised by President of the French anti-doping agency (AFLD), Pierre Bordry, was denied by the seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong.

Bordry remarked that the samples of the cyclist’s first Tour de France could be tested to see if they contain EPO traces.

From Espnstar.com:

With Armstrong set to make a comeback in 2009 after three years away from the peloton, Bordry felt such a move would give the seven-time Tour winner “a chance to confirm that he never cheated in his brilliant career”.

But Armstrong will not agree to the AFLD‘s request, insisting the matter is in the past.

“He is not interested in discussing again results from samples taken in 1999,” Mark Higgins, Armstrong’s media spokesman, is quoted as saying in L’Equipe.

“I will refer the AFLD or whoever will ask the questions on this subject to the Vrijman report.”

Higgins is referring to a report, published in 2006 by Dutch lawyer Emile Vrijman, which cleared Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour and accused anti-doping authorities of misconduct in dealing with the American.

In an age of doping scandals that have rocked the sport over the past few years, many sceptics still doubt that Armstrong was clean when he won his seven successive Tours between 1999 and 2005.

Many in the world of cycling are of the view that Armstrong’s illustrious career was dominated by use of performance enhancing drugs.

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