Authorities recently said local professional athletes – who haven’t been charged — are being probed in a far-reaching Warren County drug investigation.

The investigation involved busting a clandestine anabolic steroids lab in Tennessee that led to indictments of 32 people.

From Communitypress.cincinnati.com:

The suspects who have been indicted hail from six Ohio counties plus Tennessee. They include a Liberty Township gym owner, a champion Cincinnati bodybuilder, a manager at LA Fitness in West Chester Township and an exotic dancer from Middletown.

“It was a tight network” that required deep undercover work to infiltrate, Burke said, noting the suspects knew each other from gyms and bodybuilding.

“Virtually everybody we dealt with had no criminal record,” Burke said, which is atypical for drug investigations.

“There are at least two (professional athletes) we feel have an involvement in this operation,” said John Burke, commander of the Warren County Drug Task Force. “The investigation is ongoing and there may well be charges (against the athletes).”

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In what has been termed as a large-scale drug ring by law enforcement officials, a Bethel man facing federal charges has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.

According to court records, Mark Mansa, 46, who was arrested in February on federal drug charges, is scheduled to appear before U.S. Judge Vanessa L. Bryant on Nov. 16 to enter a new plea in the case.

From Newstimes.com:

Prosecutors said Mansa operated a drug ring that distributed large quantities of marijuana for about four years and used his ties with people connected to organized crime and the Hells Angels to intimidate others.

Mansa is also the only member of the ring who is facing charges related to the distribution of anabolic steroids.

Federal prosecutors have said in court that Mansa was involved in steroid sales for nearly seven years and counted among his clients area high school athletes, as well as those in the bodybuilding industry.

The investigation into the drug ring, which started in 2005, included Danbury Police Department detectives and personnel from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

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The air inside Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium is thick with a handful of men flexing and posing onstage at the annual Lebanese Bodybuilding Championship on Oct. 8.

George, an ex-bodybuilder whose name has been changed to protect confidentiality, whispers ““See that guy?”, pointing to a contestant who looks puny and underdeveloped next to the bulging bronzed giants on either side of him. “He doesn’t use steroids. It’s obvious. He just can’t compete.

From Dailystar.com.lb:

Performance-enhancing substances such as steroids and growth hormones are the elephant in the room at bodybuilding championships, gyms and playing fields across the globe. Many people take these substances, which are illegal in Lebanon and most countries, in order to achieve a variety of physiological effects including increased energy and rapid muscle growth. The most commonly used are anabolic steroids, which are usually injected into the bloodstream and mimic the effects of testosterone in the body, increasing protein synthesis in the muscles.

They also cause a variety of harmful or unpleasant side effects, according to Dr. Johnny Ibrahim, the official doctor of Lebanon’s national football team.

According to Jihad Haddad, medical secretary of the Lebanese Olympic Committee, steroids are fast becoming an epidemic in Lebanon.

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Sin Cara is in damage control mode after WWE suspended him for a period of thirty days for violating their Talent Wellness Program by testing positive for anabolic steroids in June.

The violation has put Cara’s career with WWE in complete danger.

From Cagesideseats.com:

For starters, Record posted audio of the interview so he couldn’t claim to be misquoted like Rey Mysterio did when he gave an interview in Mexico after his suspension in 2009 for improperly using painkillers.  Anyway, Sin Cara is saying that it’s all a mistake, as it was an injection for his knee that could cause a false positive.  This is all a load of crap, and Kurt Angle tried to use basically the same excuse to explain the suspension he served a couple months before he was fired by WWE.  Angle claimed that WWE flagged him for a cortisone shot because it’s a “steroid” that was injected by his primary care doctor instead of a pain specialist.  In fact, he tested positive for nandrolone.

Cortisone is a corticosteroid that is commonly injected directly injured injured areas as an anti-inflammatory agent.  It is NOT like nandrolone (brand name Deca-Durabolin),an anabolic androgenic steroid, the class of drug colloquially called “steroids” when talking about bodybuilding and performance enhancement.  They’re different animals.  One could not cause a false positive for the other.  Nandrolone is indicated for treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women and aplastic anemia.  Which anabolic steroids do in fact make the joints feel better, none are indicated for musculoskeletal issues and no legitimate doctor would prescribe them for injuries.  It’s common for wrestlers and other athletes to try to confuse the general public’s lack of understanding of the different types of drugs referred to as “steroids.”  When someone says “I used anabolic steroids for treatment of an injury,” he’s full of it.

Cara promised that he will be meeting with Vince McMahon for discussing the suspension.

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Darren Towers, the bodybuilding cop, who was dismissed from his rank of Sergeant by Northumbria Police for gross misconduct is to launch legal action against police for “excessive punishment”.

Darren was sacked for using steroids after he admitted in court that he used the class C drug.

From Chroniclelive.co.uk:

The amateur bodybuilder was arrested last year and charged with conspiracy to supply steroids, but was found not guilty after a trial.

Despite being cleared of all charges, he was sacked this month following a lengthy probe by the force’s Counter Corruption Unit.

The Chronicle understands Mr Towers, 41, will launch an appeal against the decision claiming the force used excessive punishment in his case.

Friends said he feels the punishment is harsh considering his acquittal.

The ex-cop told how he had started using steroids in the 1990s during December’s trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

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The body of a Sydney student who rose to fame after transforming himself from self-confessed “skinny kid” to the pin-up boy of amateur bodybuilding is being brought home from Thailand.

Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian, 22, who was known as “Zyzz” to his legion of online fans died in a Bangkok sauna on Friday.

From Smh.com.au:

Mr Shavershian, from Carlingford, was a fulltime business and commerce student who crafted the wildly popular online “Zyzz” persona after discovering bodybuilding in his late teens.

He released a book, began promoting bodybuilding supplements and made countless videos in character as “Zyzz”; an aggressive and flamboyant, heavily-tanned showman. Throughout his studies he also worked part-time as a stripper with the male revue Sydney Hotshots.

His elder brother, Said Shavershian, a personal trainer at Fitness First, was fined $479 recently for the possession of an anabolic steroid.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 7 percent of ninth-grade girls reported ever using anabolic steroids in 2004, according to results of a national survey published in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Dramatic increases in the prevalence of teen girls using steroids during the 1990s by three national surveys.

From Infozine.com:

Previous analyses of female steroid use have focused on older women and found an association with competitive athletics and bodybuilding. Diane L. Elliot, M.D., of the Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, and colleagues assessed anabolic steroid use among teen girls using a nationally representative sample of U.S. high schools completed in 2003. A total of 7,544 female students in grades nine through 12 completed the survey, which included questions about sports participation as well as steroids, ecstasy use and other illegal or unhealthy behaviors.

“Adolescent girls reporting anabolic steroid use had significantly more other health-harming behaviors,” the authors write.

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The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is cracking down on manufacturers of specific weight loss, bodybuilding, and sexual enhancement supplements that contain potentially dangerous ingredients.

Some manufacturers are deceptively labeling products to hide that they contain ingredients known to cause adverse health effects, as per the FDA.

From www2.tbo.com:

“These tainted products can cause serious adverse effects, including strokes, organ failure, and death,” said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg. “The manufacturers selling these tainted products are operating outside the law.”

In a letter to the supplement industry, the agency said manufacturers who distribute tainted products could face prosecution.

The FDA said the agency is targeting weight loss products containing sibutramine, which can cause increased risk of heart attack and stroke. The agency said it has discovered “dozens of products” that contain the ingredient, including those marketed under the names Slimming Beauty, Solo Slim and Slim-30.

Body building products under scrutiny include those containing anabolic steroids or steroid analogs. The agency cited Tren Xtreme, ArimaDex, and Clomed as supplements that have been labeled to contain those products.

The FDA also said other supplements contain ingredients that should only be available by prescription.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California and former bodybuilding great, recently had his way during the torch exchange of the 2010 Games.

Schwarzenegger was invited by Sebastian Coe to the London Games. Coe demonstrated diplomatic behavior when asked if the former Mr Olympia will be the torch bearer.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Serving politicians are seldom granted the honour; nor are former bodybuilders with a history of steroid use. Schwarzenegger may have won the Mr Olympia title seven times but the Olympics run to a rather different set of rules.

Nonetheless celebrity counts for something and, at an occasion which has fashioned itself as the “green” Games, so does a strong record on green issues during his term as governor of California – a record cited by John Furlong, the head of Vanoc, the Games’ organisers, in defending the invitation. “He has taken an extraordinary position on the environment and has developed a great relationship with the province of British Columbia,” he said.

Certainly it proved to be a hugely popular decision with the Vancouver public, whose enthusiasm for the Olympics, and desire for the 2010 Games to be seen around the world as a success, seems to be building with every passing hour.

Shelley Rudman, Britain’s only medalist from the Turin Winter Games four years ago, was the only undisputed choice and was selected at a team reception in downtown Vancouver.

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The death of Arif Sakhi, who won the “Mr Afghanistan” crown earlier this year has shaken the body building community of Afghanistan. Admirers and experts of bodybuilding are finding it difficult to realize how Sakhi who was preening and posing his well-oiled muscles a few months ago broke down against the strain of steroid abuse.

Sakhi’s death has also suggested to the community that it things are not beyond the reach when it comes to the shady billion-dollar business involving legal and illegal supplements.

From in.reuters.com:

“Unfortunately using illegal supplements has been seen among our young body builders, but we have no resources to stop it,” said Ustaad Bawar Hotak, the head of Afghanistan’s Bodybuilding Federation.

“I always tell any sportsmen to use natural products instead of using dangerous supplements that damage their health.”

Hotak said there was evidence that both professional and amateur body builders in Afghanistan were using imported illegal supplements banned by the national federation.

But Hotak denied “Mr. Afghanistan’s” death was due to using risky supplements, saying Arif Sakhi was poisoned by his rivals — even as fellow body builders said the champion’s liver and kidneys had been devastated by steroids.

“Everyone who prepares themselves for a competition uses steroids and other types of injections for their muscle growth,” said Haroon, working out at the Kabul Gym.

Haroon says that almost every one at Afghanistan gyms, which are packed with costly workout machines and weights, use steroids.

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