Angel “Memo” Hernandez, the strength and conditioning coach of Juan Manuel Marquez, recently threatened to sue Alex Ariza, his counterpart in the camp of Manny Pacquiao.

“I would like to say through this medium and the public that logically, we are preparing a lawsuit for defamation against Mr. Alex Ariza,” Hernandez said, his words translated from Spanish.

From Boxingforum.com:

While it is unclear exactly which of Ariza’s comments have sparked Hernandez’ statements, Hernandez has come under scrutiny lately after former BALCO chief Victor Conte revealed through his Twitter account on Monday that Hernandez is the former Angel Heredia.

As the government’s star witness in the infamous BALCO doping cases, Heredia testified before a San Francisco court in May of 2008 that he had sold banned substances—namely EPO, growth hormone and steroids—to Olympic sprinters like Marion Jones.

Conte ended up serving four months in prison for his role in orchestrating the steroid distribution scandal.

However, Hernandez’ ire was not directed at Conte, but rather at Ariza and Pacquiao, the latter of whom will fight Marquez on Nov. 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

“On his behalf, the declarations he has made are very direct. I think they’re very prejudicial not just with respect toward the image of Juan Manuel Marquez, but for mine as his physical trainer,” Hernandez said.

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Adolpho Birch, who oversees the NFL’s drug-testing program, recently said that he was confident that game-day testing that can take place before or after games would not be disruptive to teams.

With this statement, Birch has provided a solution for a concern among players and coaches.

From NYtimes.com:

Birch said he did not believe H.G.H. is used by 10 to 20 percent of players, as some players have publicly guessed.

He declined to reveal if discussions with the players union had already begun to resolve the final details of growth hormone testing. But he played down concerns about the reliability of tests — concerns that players raised the day before the deal was completed last week — and he said that the N.F.L. hoped eventually to have a test that will expand the detection window for H.G.H.

Game-day testing would be limited to performance enhancing drugs like steroids and human growth hormone, and would not include recreational drugs, like marijuana and cocaine.

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According to Customs figures, the amount of steroids being smuggled into Australia at airports and through the postal system has more than doubled in the past five years.

In the year to July 2010, customs made 2695 seizures of steroids and growth hormone that highlighted a 155 per cent increase on the 1054 seizures made in 2004-05.

From News.com.au:

Most of the drugs seized are being imported from the US, Thailand, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, China and the UK, Customs said.

The revelation comes after the death of 22-year-old Australian bodybuilder and online celebrity Aziz “Zyzz” Sergeyevich Shavershian, who died of an undiagnosed heart defect in a Thai sauna last week.

His brother Said, 25, was found in possession of an anabolic steroid during a police raid last month. The Fitness First personal trainer pleaded guilty and was fined $479.

Zyzz denied using steroids despite talking about riding “bicycles” – gym slang for using a cycle of steroids – on Facebook.

“The majority of performance-enhancing drugs are detected at the international mail gateways and are generally from internet sites located in overseas jurisdictions which do not exercise the same controls as Australia,” a Customs spokesperson said.

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An investigation by Spanish police into a suspected dope trafficking ring led to arrest of seven Britons among 26 people.

The Spanish police were able to seize 700,000 doses of performance enhancing drugs and counterfeit medicines as well as 10,000 vials of human growth hormone.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

Spanish police said the Britons, who have not been named but are all believed to be residents of Marbella, were “leading members” of the alleged network. Some of the illegal substances were reportedly imported into Glasgow before being packed and distributed to Europe via Manchester.

Among others arrested was the director general of a cycling club where, according to police, several former European and world champions were members. Local media reports said the club were based in the Madrid area and that the man was arrested on suspicion of receiving a “significant amount” of the red blood cell-boosting drug EPO.

Other drugs seized in 19 property searches across Spain included anabolic steroids and substances not intended for the sporting market, including hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Viagra tablets. It was these that are alleged to have been sent through Glasgow and Manchester.

Police described the ring as the largest international organization operating in Spain dedicated to drug trafficking, growth hormone, and doping substances.

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An Assembly committee unanimously advanced legislation calling for increased surveillance of human growth hormone (HGH) amid growing evidence that the drug is abused.

The bill was described as a non-intrusive way to protect “the integrity of medicine” Health and Senior Services Committee Chairman Herb Conaway (D-Burlington) said that the bill will help eliminate abuse of HGH by patients and physicians.

From NJ.com:

“We will know whether it’s an individual patient doctor shopping or if it’s a physician who’s dealing,” Conaway told The Star-Ledger. “We’d be able to monitor both ends of the problem.”

The bill would add HGH to the list of drugs within the state’s prescription monitoring program. It follows a Star-Ledger series that revealed wide use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone among hundreds of law enforcement officers and firefighters in New Jersey.

The Star-Ledger found in most cases that the officers used their state-funded health benefits to foot the bill for substances, with the high cost of HGH running up a tab in the millions of dollars.

According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, growth hormone deficiency affects one of every 100,000 American adults annually.

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The police may be claiming to do everything in the world to fight against the popularity of anabolic steroids, but the pages of a magazine written just for law enforcement were all filled with advertisements for suppliers of anabolic steroids.

“We’ve found the fountain of youth!” shouts an advertisement in the December issue of New Jersey COPS, a publication read by officers across the state.

From NJ.com:

The full-page ad, one of two hawking hormone replacement therapy, features the image of a shirtless man with thunderous biceps, a sculpted chest and fist-size abs that bulge through bronzed skin.

As an added incentive, a text label proclaims, “Special Discount for Law Enforcement.”

The phone number leads to an answering machine without a message. The address, on Route 10 in Whippany, leads to the Fountain of Youth Anti-Aging Center and Signature Health and Wellness Center, two distinct but affiliated firms that share a small office connected to a gym.

There you’ll find Tom Boorujy, a licensed chiropractor and Signature’s owner, who explains why it was a simple decision to place an ad in a magazine for law enforcement officers.

“From what we heard, there were a lot of cops doing it, so we thought, ‘Let’s market it to that demographic,’” Boorujy said.

Newspaper, the Star-Ledger, found at least 248 officers and firefighters from 53 agencies getting anabolic steroids and other hormones, which were often forged and sold illegally in the diagnosis of growth hormone through the Jersey City doctor, Joseph Colao.

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Team New Zealand has sunk to a new low in an attempt to overthrow the Swiss Alinghi syndicate from the America’s Cup by suggesting that some members of the sailing team have been using performance enhancing drugs.

The allegation was without any formal proof and based on the results of a private detective, a former policeman, who was hired to investigate the charges.

From Guardian.co.uk:

It alleged that members of the Swiss winch-grinding team had been seen entering the premises of the Men’s Health Clinic in the suburb of Remuera, and, according to staff members at the clinic, had received growth-hormone injections.

Despite the report, no formal complaint has been made and there is no suggestion that the allegations have any substance.

The drug alleged to have been injected is the somatropin recombinant human-growth hormone marketed under the trade name Saizen, It is a product of Serono, the pharmaceutical giant controlled by Ernesto Bertarelli, the head of the Alinghi syndicate.

Britain’s Bryan Willis, head of the International Jury for the Cup confirmed that he had been informed by Team New Zealand of the allegations, but that it had not been a formal complaint, but more in the mode of information, a style of notification not uncommon in the event when a syndicate believes another is in breach of the rules.

The team is furious at the allegations after being questioned by a private detective hired by Team New Zealand, Alinghi spokeswoman said.

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A consultant physician who was medical officer to the Irish team at the 1996 Olympics has said that Beijing Olympics would play host to the cleanest Olympics in living memory.

Dr Conor O’Brien, Ireland’s leading expert on drugs in sport, said, “There is well-founded optimism that we will no longer have the spectre of the last 20 years, with almost every sprint champion being exposed as a cheat.”

From Independent.ie:

On his return from Atlanta , the Dubliner launched the Irish Anti-Doping Committee of which he was also the inaugural chairman for six years. And after retiring from this post in 2005, he was appointed by the Government to represent Ireland on the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA). Having stepped down recently from that post too, he feels free to express his views on a subject critical to the future of all sport.

“When you consider the idea of a man of 6ft 5ins competing against an opponent possibly a foot smaller, it is fanciful to think of sport as being fair,” he said. “But where drugs are concerned, our objective must be to make it safe. Drugs like cocaine, anabolic steroids, growth hormone (hGH) and erythropoietin (EPO) kill people, by damaging the heart, causing tumours and bringing about a whole variety of conditions which shorten people’s lives.”

Dr O’Brien also said, “So, not only can testers pick up an illegal substance, they pick up such important changes as the ratio of testosterone to epi-testosterone in an athlete’s system. If you suddenly find the ratio is abnormal, then there is either something wrong with your system, or you’re getting it from an outside source.

“For the cheat, it’s no longer a matter of masking the drug: the effect the drug is having on the system is also being monitored. Changes in a person are observed. If, for instance, a person’s blood-count is normally x and it suddenly goes to y, suspicions are raised.”

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An Assembly committee unanimously advanced legislation urging for tighter monitoring of human growth hormone (HGH) amid growing evidence that the drug is widely abused.

The bill was termed as a non-intrusive way for protecting “the integrity of medicine” by Health and Senior Services Committee chairman Herb Conaway (D-Burlington) who said the bill will help in cracking down on abuse by both patients and physicians.

According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, growth hormone deficiency affects one of every 100,000 American adults annually.

From NJ.com:

“We will know whether it’s an individual patient doctor shopping or if it’s a physician who’s dealing,” Conaway told The Star-Ledger. “We’d be able to monitor both ends of the problem.”

The bill would add HGH to the list of drugs within the state’s prescription monitoring program. It follows a Star-Ledger series that revealed wide use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone among hundreds of law enforcement officers and firefighters in New Jersey.

The Star-Ledger found in most cases that the officers used their state-funded health benefits to foot the bill for substances, with the high cost of HGH running up a tab in the millions of dollars.

The Star-Ledger found a Jersey City physician routinely faking medical diagnoses for adult growth hormone deficiency and supplying the drugs for muscle building purposes to law enforcement officers and firefighters.

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Victor Conte, the founder of the designer drugs pharmacy BALCO, has revealed that Marion Jones, the greatest female athlete of her generation, was provided with insulin, growth hormone, EPO, and ‘The Clear’ (users’ slang for THG) as well as nutritional supplements.

Conte also said Jones was on a cocktail of drugs including insulin, growth hormone, EPO, and THG when she won three gold medals and two bronze at the Sydney Olympics.

From Independent.ie:

“People have asked me: ‘Do you feel guilty about what you did? Are you ashamed?’ The answer is no. I got to a point where I realised elite sport is about doing what you have to do to win. My clients didn’t come to BALCO to learn how to do drugs. Most were already using (drugs) before they came.

“I’ve seen athletes being forced to decide whether to use or not use, and it’s much more painful for them to entertain the idea of giving up their dream than to use anabolic steroids. That’s what’s really going on. That’s the choice athletes face when they get to the very top.”

Conte’s interview contains extraordinary detail about Jones and the drugs regime that he oversaw, beginning with the build-up to the Sydney Olympics.

“CJ (Hunter, the shot-putter and her husband at the time) had called me six weeks before the Olympics to ask me to work with Marion,” he says. “I started providing her with insulin, growth hormone, EPO and ‘The Clear’ (users’ slang for THG) as well as nutritional supplements. She was on all of it at the 2000 Games. I tell you this knowing Marion passed a lie-detector test saying it’s not true. All that shows me is lie detectors don’t work.”

Conte also said, “Soon I was working with their (Jones and Montgomery’s) rivals,” he says. It is here that Dwain Chambers, of Great Britain, enters the story, another who, despite being banned, continues to profess his innocence. Conte says he gave Chambers “the full enchilada”: ‘The Clear,’ insulin, EPO, growth hormone, modafinil and a testosterone cream.

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