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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

“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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