The decision by the Breeders’ Cup to ban the use of Lasix for its year-end races is likely to embolden other organizations that are against the raceday use of the drug, according to officials.

The ban will be applied to the five races for 2-year-olds in the 2012 championships and all 15 races for the 2013 event.

From Drf.com:

Lasix, a diuretic that is used to treat bleeding in the lungs, is legal in every racing jurisdiction in the United States and Canada. It is banned, however, in every other major racing jurisdiction in the world, and the North American policy has been criticized consistently by participants in international racing, who cite its perception as a performance enhancer.

It remains unclear whether the ban by Breeders’ Cup will have an immediate impact on the willingness of state racing commissions to tackle the subject, especially in light of industry-wide talks about the issue at a conference in June. Following the conference, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, a research group that has a cross-section of industry stakeholders on its board, was given the task of developing an overall policy.

Supporters of a ban include the Jockey Club, the racetrack trade group Thoroughbred Racing Associations, the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, and the Association of Racing Commissioners International, an umbrella group for state racing commissions. But horsemen remain opposed and contend Lasix is the only treatment proven to reduce the severity and frequency of bleeding in the lungs, a condition that affects all horses who exercise strenuously.

“Breeders’ Cup can obviously decide what rules they want to adopt for their event,” Bellocq said. “The fact remains that the [June conference] clearly showed that this is not a black-and-white issue. We’re still focused on working with all these groups on a policy that’s best for U.S. racing,” Remi Bellocq, the executive director of the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.

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Amir Khan has vehemently denied allegations by Roger Mayweather that Khan is guilty of taking steroids.

“The only reason Amir Khan has become the fighter he is, is because he’s got those steroids in his ass, too!” said Roger Mayweather, the trainer and uncle of superstar Floyd Mayweather Junior.

From Eastsideboxing.com:

When Mayweather says Khan has got those steroids, “TOO,” he is of course making reference to Pound-for-Pound king Manny Pacquiao, who Mayweather also alleges is taking illegal stimulants. Well, quite understandably, Khan has fired back in anger over this nasty slur, and the 24-year-old former Olympian told U.K paper The Daily Mail how he is utterly innocent and that he came through the ultra-strict Olympic testing back when he competed in the 2004 games – and remember, OSDT is exactly what Mayweather Junior is demanding Pacquiao undertakes ahead of a fight with him.

Needless to say, Khan passed every single test he was subjected to in 2004.

“This is nonsense,” Khan said of Roger Mayweather’s allegations. “I’ve been tested repeatedly in my career, before and after fights. Don’t forget I came through the 2004 Olympics, where testing is very thorough.”

“I would question Roger Mayweather’s education abut steroids, first of all,” said Freddie Roach, Khan and Pac-Man’s trainer.

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Jose Canseco, the former baseball slugger, has expressed regret over his involvement in the sport’s ongoing steroids controversy in a one-hour documentary titled, “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot.”

Canseco regretted “mentioning players (as steroids users)” in his book “Juiced” that was published in 2005 and ultimately led to a congressional hearing on doping in the sport.

From Espnstar.com:

Canseco, 44, revealed that he wrote the book because he wanted to get even with Major League Baseball, which he believed had him “forced out of the game.”

In his book, Canseco named Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro as steroids users. Those three players, along with Canseco, were present at a March 2005 congressional hearing in which Sosa and McGwire provided questionable testimony while Palmeiro defiantly denied using steroids.

Less than four years later, Sosa and McGwire are widely considered longshots to reach the Hall of Fame despite ranking sixth and eighth, respectively, on baseball’s all-time list for career home runs. Palmeiro tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during the 2005 season and was suspended.

“If I could meet with Mark McGwire and these players, I definitely would apologize to them,” said Canseco, who developed a friendship with McGwire during their seven-year stint together with the Oakland Athletics. “They were my friends. I admired them, I respected them.”

“I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people,” Canseco said in the interview.

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Bringing an end to the duplication of results management process between the two bodies, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Wednesday agreed to transfer the dope cases of quartermilers Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu to the National Anti-Doping Authority of India (NADA).

The AFI medical panel that heard the cases of the two athletes who tested positive in an out-of-competition test conducted by the world body at the NIS in Patiala, has concluded its proceedings.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

“We got a fax from NADA on Wednesday evening informing us that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has given them the go-ahead to conduct the hearing as per the IAAF anti-doping rules. Accordingly, we have decided to stop the proceedings of the AFI panel and transfer the cases to the NADA,” AFI Director ML Dogra told TOI.

“We have also got a letter from International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that we can transfer the cases if the NADA hearing is conducted as per the IAAF rules. The next date of the hearing will now be set by the NADA panel and will be communicated to the athletes,” he added.

NADA supremo Rahul Bhatnagar said the NADA panel, headed by Dinesh Dayal, will decide on the dates in the next two days.

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Aswini Akkunji, the disgraced athlete involved in the latest doping scandal, believes consumption of food supplements supplied to her and other athletes by athletics coach, Yuri Ogorodnik, would have been the reason for the failed dope test.

Akkunji remarked she is innocent as far as consumption of performance enhancing drugs is concerned.

From Daijiworld.com:

“Stock of food supplements in National Institute of Sports in Patiala had been exhausted. Hence, we consumed the supplements provided by Ogorodnik and other coaches at the camp. We have been consuming food supplements since May 10, and one of the food supplements was in the form of tablets, which was given by coach, Yuri Ogorodnik himself. Three other food supplements were bought by us on the recommendations of the Indian coaches at the camp. This was the first time we had to buy food supplements on our own,” Ashwini, who won gold medals for India in both Commonwealth and Asian Games, said.

Other middle distance runners like Mandeep Kaur, Jauna Murmu, Sini Jose, Tiana Marie Thomas and Priyanka Panwar, have also failed the dope test, as traces of anabolic steroids were found in their samples. These athletes stand suspended till investigation is completed, and coach Ogorodnik has already been dismissed. The activities of Indian coaches, Ramesh Nagpuri, and R S Sidhu, who are in charge of training athletes participating in women’s 400 metres race, 400 metres hurdles and 4×400 metres relay team, as well as three other Sports Authority of India officials including two women of Elite Sports Ladies Hostel, were dismissed on Wednesday, relating to the controversy.

The coach, Ogorodnik, already has denied his involvement with supplying steroids to the athletes. “I only brought medals for India, not drugs,” he claimed.

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David Vobora, the St. Louis Rams linebacker, has won a $5.4 million judgment from a Florida nutritional supplement company in U.S. federal court.

The linebacker could now move ahead as an athlete, a person and one day as a father with his name cleared.

From Nationalfootballpost.com:

Vobora, who has 16 starts the last three seasons on the strong side, readily admits it’s the defense you hear nearly every athlete use: The supplement was tainted. Except his was and he was determined to prove it.

“There is a general stigma toward, ‘This guy tested positive and, yeah, he blames the supplement and says he is going to sue.‘ No one ever follows through or no one ever ends up winning these cases,” Vobora told the National Football Post. “Why is that? Well, it could be a number of reasons. But in my case, people ask me what my conviction was to follow through with this and to stick this out for such a long process and such a painful process, let me tell you federal litigation is a heck of a process.

Vobora was suspended for four games in 2009 for violating policy of the NFL on anabolic steroids and related substances after testing positive for methyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid.

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According to a recent study by the Dutch company OrgaNext Research, activated vitamin D stimulates expression of the androgen receptor in skeletal muscle cells.

The Dutch scientist Lenus Kloosterboer, PhD, presented these breakthrough findings in Boston, USA, during the Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society (June 4-8, 2011).

The active metabolite of the anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate, Nandrolone, stimulates expression of the vitamin D receptor in skeletal muscle cells, as per the researchers.

From Starglobaltribune.com:

Kloosterboer: “We found that both compounds stimulate expression of their own and each other receptors in human skeletal muscle. This has never been published before and could help unravel the mechanism of action of muscle regeneration.

What makes this study unique is that both young and aged human skeletal muscle cells were used. However, the receptor expression was greater in the aged muscle cells. It is likely that the number of both the androgen receptor and the vitamin D receptor on human skeletal muscle lower as we age, which may be why muscle regeneration slows down as people grow older. It is really promising that we were able to demonstrate that the proliferation of satellite cells, also known as new skeletal muscle cells, can be triggered by the active metabolites of NDD.

The combination of nandrolone and hydroxylated vitamin D (NDD) has a synergistic effect on the in-vitro proliferation of human skeletal muscle cells, as per the research.

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New Orleans Saints guard Jamar Nesbit has been suspended by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on anabolic steroids and related substances.

Nesbit’s suspension begins immediately.

From Espnstar.com:

“We are disappointed in the suspension of Jamar,” Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said. “We will support Jamar through this process and look forward to having him rejoin the team soon.”

Nesbit will be unable to participate in team activities until the week of October 20. New Orleans heads to London that week to face the San Diego Chargers in Wembley Stadium on October 26.

The Saints re-signed Nesbit to a three-year contract in February. The 10-year veteran had appeared in all 16 games the past two seasons.

Jamar Nesbit has started 87 games in his career with the Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Saints.

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A Chinese court on Monday handed out long sentences, including a suspended death penalty, who were involved in the production and sale of pork tainted with a poisonous chemical, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The pigs were fed clenbuterol for producing lean meat that sells for a premium in China, which is the world’s largest producer and consumer of pork.

From Reuters.com:

The five people suspected of involvement in the case were pronounced guilty by the court in the central province of Henan on the charge of “endangering public security by using dangerous means,” Xinhua reported.

Aside from the suspended death sentence, which in practice means a life sentence, the other suspects got sentences ranging from nine years in prison to life, Xinhua said.

The five, “despite possessing knowledge of the harm of clenbuterol, nevertheless became involved in the production and sale of it,” the report added, citing their indictment.

“Their acts also brought tremendous losses to the local livestock-farming industry,” it said.

China is no stranger to food safety scares despite repeated government campaigns to crack down on the problem and tough punishments handed out to those involved.

In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 fell ill from drinking powdered milk laced with melamine, an industrial compound added to fool inspectors by giving misleadingly high results in protein tests.

“The accused, however, defended themselves by pointing out the loopholes in pork processing companies and government supervision. They also argued there was no relevant case in which consumers got ill as a result of taking in clenbuterol-tainted meat,” the report said.

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Manju Wanniarachchi has claimed he was prevented by the authorities from challenging the decision.

Sri Lanka’s boxing star whose gold medal from the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games was stripped off on a doping conviction alleged that the Sri Lanka government told him that an appeal would hinder the country’s bid to host the Games.

From Print.dailymirror.lk:

Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota competes against Gold Coast in Australia to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Wanniarachchi’s Delhi gold was recently handed over to Welsh boxer Sean McGoldrick after the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) found traces of nandrolone in his urine samples given in October 2010.

Nandrolone is among the banned substances under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regulations.

But Wanniaarachchi says he was prevented from proving his innocence by Sri Lanka’s sports ministry.

“I am unable to file the appeal because authorities believe that other countries may not help Sri Lanka’s bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games when a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) decision is challenged,” he added.

“Neither the government, nor the ministry exerted pressure on him. The medical report clearly shows that that substance was in his body. I have both the police and medical reports,” said Sports minister, Mahindananda Aluthgamage.

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