North Korean officials have remarked that a traditional Chinese medicine is to be blamed for the biggest case of doping in FIFA history.

The statement came in wake of three North Korean footballers at the women’s World Cup testing positive for banned steroids.

From Abc.net.au:

In a bizarre explanation for the failed drugs test, North Korean officials claim the steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines based on musk deer glands.

The officials say the remedy was used to treat players who had been struck by lightning at a training camp in June.

FIFA’s chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak says it is the first time the substance has ever been discovered.

It is the biggest case of doping at a major event that FIFA has ever dealt with and the first since Diego Maradona in 1994.

The doping incident has brought total in the squad caught up in the scandal to five.

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The women’s World Cup in Germany has been hit by a doping scandal after defenders Song Jong-Sun and Jong Pok-Sim from North Korea tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid.

A North Korean delegation told that steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines based on musk deer glands for treating players who had been struck by lightning on June 8 during a training camp in North Korea.

From Newstalkzb.co.nz:

The women’s World Cup in Germany has been hit by a doping scandal after North Korea defenders Song Jong-Sun and Jong Pok-Sim both tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid.

The pair were removed from the lineup for North Korea’s goalless draw with Colombia, but after the Group C game, the remaining 19 players in the squad were all tested by FIFA.

“This is a shock,” FIFA President Sepp Blatter said at a news conference. “We are confronted with a very, very bad case of doping and it hurts.”

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FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have entered into new drug testing procedures for footballers playing at the highest level.

The new anti-doping rules by the football governing body come into force as a pilot project initiated after FIFA objected to players being held to the toughest standards of the new WADA code.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Fifa proposed the targeted testing program to Wada after arguing that team sports like football, where training and playing locations are more predictable, should not be treated like individual sports such as athletics and cycling, where competitors’ plans change at short notice.

It also argued that footballers were entitled to their individual privacy during out-of-season holiday times. Individual testing and whereabouts requirements for players was “inefficient and ineffective,” Fifa said on Tuesday. “Random team testing of elite teams at any time has more of a deterrent effect.” Fifa has also created a specialised anti-doping unit of medical and legal advisers and anti-doping administrators to operate the pilot scheme this year.

It will work with Wada and liaise with national anti-doping organizations and other sports federations. More than 28,000 doping controls were carried out in football in 2007 with 93 samples testing positive. Around 60% of those positives were for recreational drugs and 12 involved anabolic steroids.

The doping tests will be targeted at football players classed in three high-risk categories: players with Champions League clubs, international players, and those sidelined for long periods through injury or suspension.

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Giving a new spark to WADA’s new code, football could face Olympic axe if its chief bodies, FIFA and its European counterpart UEFA, do not meet the terms of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (Wada) “whereabouts” code.

WADA wants the sport to join athletics against steroid abuse fight by providing players’ location for one hour each day of the year for doping test procedures. However, FIFA and UEFA said that they wanted to respect players’ privacy and did not accept that controls be undertaken during the short holiday period of players.

Wada general secretary David Howman said, “The sport could be removed from the Olympics.” He also added, “There is a clause in the IOC (International Olympic Committee) charter that states this – it falls in the IOC jurisdiction and not ours.”

In a teamwork effort to fight against doping, FIFA and Uefa asked Wada to reconsider its position on the ‘whereabouts’ rule. The governing bodies wanted to point out the fundamental differences between an individual athlete, who trains on his own, and a team sport’s athlete, who is present at the stadium six days out of seven, and thus easy to locate. Because of that, FIFA and UEFA wanted to replace the individual ‘whereabouts’ rule by collective location rules.

From BBC:

Football’s place in the Olympics could be under threat if its chief bodies do not comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (Wada) “whereabouts” code.

Wada wants football to join sports like athletics and provide players’ location for one hour each day of the year.

World football body, Fifa, and its European counterpart, Uefa, said they wanted to respect players’ privacy.

“The sport could be removed from the Olympics,” Wada general secretary David Howman told BBC 5 Live.

He added: “There is a clause in the IOC (International Olympic Committee) charter that states this – it falls in the IOC jurisdiction and not ours.”

President of Wada, John Fahey responded, “One of the key principles of efficient doping control is the surprise effect and the possibility to test an athlete without advance notice on a 365-day basis. Alleging that testing should only take place at training grounds and not during holiday periods, it ignores the reality of doping in sport.”

However, Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who sits on Wada’s board, said that football’s world governing body had teamed up with other team sports, such as basketball, ice hockey and rugby union, to oppose the rules. “We are a little bit surprised that through certain declarations [Wada] say there will be no exceptions made,” he said.

The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) had already signalled their opposition to the WADA’s new code of doping.

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Sports organizations net two athletes for violation of anti-doping policies.
Soccer player Eduardo Carlos Morgado Oliveira tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone after the Russia-Italy matchup at the FIFA Futbal World Cup Brazil 2008 on Oct.18.

From Web News Wire:

Italian player Eduardo Carlos Morgado Oliveira was suspended for two years after testing positive during a doping control after the match for third place at the FIFA Futbal World Cup Brazil 2008 between Russia and Italy on 18 October.

The substances found were the two major metabolites of the synthetic anabolic steroid nandrolone, which appear on the list of “Prohibited Substances” of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The sanction for such a case is two years and applies for all matches, whether friendly or official fixtures, at domestic and international level, from 6 November 2008, the date on which the player was first provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.

Meanwhile Liberian player Melvin King received a five-month ban subsequent to a positive test at a doping control after the match of the preliminary competition of the 2010 FIFA World Cup between Senegal and Liberia. The match took place on 21 June 2008. King was discovered of using a glucocorticoid, which is a medication included in the list of specified substances of WADA.

The use of such a substance requires a therapeutic use exemption, something which the player did not have. The sanctions for such an anti-doping rule violation range from a warning to a two-year suspension, and the FIFA Disciplinary Committee decided to impose a sanction of five months starting on 2 October 2008, the date on which the player was first provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee. The sanction applies for all matches, whether friendly or official fixtures, at domestic and international level.

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