LaShawn Merritt finished second behind Jermaine Gonzales of Jamaica in Stockholm and remarked that his focus was on competing at the world championships after being selected by the US governing body.

The Olympic and world 400m champion banned for 21 months after testing positive for an anabolic steroid makes comeback after drug ban is cut.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Stockholm’s meet organiser, Rajne Soderberg, defended his invitation to the American, saying Merritt’s circumstances did not conflict with the EuroMeetings ban on drug offenders. “He is not banned for two years,” Soderberg said. “He’s not put the sport in real disrepute. He’s not got caught with doping products in his car, like some athletes have.”

Usain Bolt comfortably won the 200m, crossing the line in 20.03sec, on the same track where he suffered a rare defeat against Tyson Gay in the 100m last season. The 24-year-old’s time was short of his world-leading mark of 19.86sec in Oslo this season but the Jamaican was running into a headwind.

The 33-year-old Chambers qualified for Saturday’s 100m semi-finals at the UK Trials and is vying for a place at next month’s world championships. But because of his two-year drug suspension for taking the anabolic steroid THG, dating to 2003, he remains ineligible to run in Diamond League events.

“I’m just leaving it all up to God to figure it out,” the 25-year-old told the BBC. “My family are behind me. I’m clean and I’m really just getting ready for the worlds. Running 44.74sec [a time that ranks him fifth fastest in the world this year] in my first race, I can’t complain.”

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In almost all professional and amateur sports, including professional boxing, the use of performance enhancing drugs is on an increase.

These performance enhancement drugs can help sportsmen improve their performance or add extra pounds on that bench press or to get bigger in a shorter period of time.

From Boxingnews24.com:

There are anabolic steroids (medicines: androstenedione, ephedrine, stanozolol and nandrolone just to mention a few) for humans and even for animal use, human growth hormone (HGH, somatrotopine), and design laboratories drugs (tetrahydrogestrinone – THG) that have been used to improve the performance of athletes, but even some food supplements are banned; the hyperbaric chambers could be considered as a non natural way to increase your performance in some cases.

The use of performance enhancement drugs gives an illicit advantage to the user, it is shameful and disgraceful, and in some cases it could be even a coward attitude to take that illicit edge on your opponent.

Some argue that PEDS wont give you the skills but they do will give you extra strength, stamina, resistance, speed and power, so if I am a fighter who has average boxing skills I might be able to improve my physique so much that I could end up beating guys who are better naturally gifted than me and even also the ones who are more skilled than me.

Many successful sportsmen of the past had admitted to using anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and professional boxing cannot be the exception.

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Olivier Magne recently said that he suspected some rugby players of using drugs. Magne welcomed the decision of the World Cup organizers to begin testing for THG.

Magne, one of the game’s best openside flankers, said, “I have a suspicion, but for the time being I prefer to go no further.”

From Independent.ie:

Players at the World Cup will be tested as early as next week for the designer anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG). Rugby’s anti-doping body said all samples taken during the rest of the tournament would be tested for the drug and possibly some samples already taken would be re-tested.

The decision to start immediate testing, followed an announcement by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that 30 IOC-accredited laboratories worldwide had been provided with details on how to detect the drug.

Cup organisers say more than half the players competing at the tournament were dope-tested in the lead-up to the competition and at least two players from each of the 20 competing teams are randomly tested after each game. There have been no positive tests so far.

Magne also said, “I am a fitness fanatic and I work very hard to ready myself for the big matches, but it’s true that when I see some players making progress in double-quick time, I wonder how they can manage it.”

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The drugs crisis in athletics deepened when Calvin Harrison, America’s Olympic and world gold medallist, joined Britain’s Dwain Chambers in testing positive for a banned drug.

Harrison like Chambers is coached by the Ukrainian Remi Korchemny.

From Independent.ie:

Harrison tested positive for the stimulant modafinil when scientists reviewed 350 samples taken at the United States Championships in June. Samples were retested after the discovery of a new designer anabolic steroid which until recently was undetectable.

Sources close to the case claim Harrison is just the beginning and many more top names will emerge during the next few days. They believe as many as ten top American athletes may have tested positive for the drug used to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy.

Doping experts are suspicious that so many athletes are suddenly testing positive for the drug and believe it may be linked to the fact that they were also taking the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG). It is possible they believed that modafinil would act as a masking agent in case laboratories could test for THG.

Sweden’s Arne Ljungqvist, the anti-doping chief for the International Olympic Committee as well as the International Association of Athletics Federations said, “Apparently, there’s an epidemic among track athletes of narcolepsy in the United States.”

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Tetrahydrogestrinone, a designer steroid that was unidentifiable long ago has been identified by researchers at the Olympic Analytical Laboratory at UCLA in Los Angeles.

THG (Tetrahydrogestrinone) was identified after a spent syringe was anonymously provided to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

From News-Medical.Net:

Urine samples were purposely spiked with the newly identified THG and various analyses carried out to determine how the substance could be detected. Although it is not detectable by standard doping control screening, THG was found to be easily detectable by alternate methods. Once detection methods were established, the substance was administered to a baboon both intravenously and intramuscularly, and its excreted urine collected for analysis.

The designer drug identified in this study is different from anabolic steroids previously found in athletes’ urine samples. The Food and Drug Administration has warned that its use could pose health risks, and it cannot be legally marketed without approval.

Don Catlin, principal investigator, was able to detect this anabolic steroid. It was disclosed that THG is detectable in urine after IV and IM administration (both).

The FDA has advised all health effects in the serious use of designer steroids and said it cannot be legally marketed without approval.

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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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A member of the victorious US 4x400m women’s relay squad at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Crystal Cox, has accepted a ban of four years ban for doping.

Cox admitted to doping from late 2001 through 2004 and used anabolic agents and hormones, the US Anti-Doping Agency said in a statement.

From TheAustralian.com.au:

“Ms Cox clearly competed under the pressures of her sport that accompanied one of the worst doping chapters in history and unfortunately gave in to the temptation to use performance-enhancing drugs,” USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said.

“However, to her credit, when confronted by USADA with evidence of her violation of sports anti-doping rules, Ms Cox promptly admitted her involvement in doping and accepted responsibility.”

The investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, source of the designer steroid THG, rocked the sports world prior to the Athens Olympics, and the fallout has continued in a wide range of sports.

Competitive results of Cox will be disqualified, including forfeiture of all medals, points, and prizes since November 3, 2001, according to USADA.

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According to a senior anti-doping official in the UK, British sport faces an unprecedented threat from the widespread availability of performance enhancing drugs in the run-up to London 2012 Games.

Andy Parkinson, acting head of anti-doping at UK Sport, expressed deep worries that young athletes may be tempted to use drugs by the prospect of competing in the home Olympics.

From Guardian.co.uk:

UK Sport already has evidence that designer steroids – substances that have been altered to make them undetectable – are being trafficked through the UK. “Our steroid findings are not high compared to the rest of the world, and I would argue that we have educated athletes that realise you can’t take them,” he added. “But with the proximity of 2012, designer steroids have to be a big concern for us. They can be imported or manufactured over here. But Victor Conte [owner of the Balco lab that supplied THG to Dwayne Chambers] was not the only one doing it, no question.”

UK Sport and the government are now reforming anti-doping operations, with the aim of establishing an independent national agency in time for 2012. Parkinson believes that UK Sport’s education programme and its strict “whereabouts” rules, which require athletes to make themselves available for testing one-hour-a-day, five-days-a week, have helped keep sport relatively clean. With organised crime increasingly involved in doping, however, there is a need for reform.

Parkinson warned that designer steroids, EPO, and human growth hormone are all readily available in the UK and athletes may be tempted to use them.

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The world 100 meters record holder, Tim Montgomery, may have used a cocktail of banned drugs, including human growth hormones and the blood-boosting agent EPO, as per allegations by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

The allegations were made in a nine-page letter sent to Montgomery setting out allegations that he was involved in doping as long ago as 2000, two years before he set the record.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Usada also said in the letter – published in the Los Angeles Times – that it “anticipates testimony” from an unnamed source regarding Montgomery’s “admitted use of the ‘clear’”, allegedly the code name for the designer anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) manufactured by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in San Francisco.

Usada alleges that apart from the THG, HGH and EPO (erythropoietin) Montgomery also used several other anabolic steroids.

They also claim to have discovered a series of Montgomery’s urine and blood test results that are consistent with the use of banned substances, calendars detailing a drug regime, receipts relating to the purchase of illegal drugs and correspondence referring to Montgomery by Victor Conte, the Balco founder and owner. Montgomery disputes this evidence. Montgomery has always denied taking banned drugs.

Montgomery had until last Friday to respond to Usada’s letter and a review board will meet this week to decide whether to charge him along with three other top US sprinters: Chryste Gaines, Michelle Collins and Alvin Harrison. If guilty they face at least a two-year suspension.

The lawyer of Montgomery has claimed that her client is innocent and the victim of a witch-hunt after a “bitter” falling-out with Conte.

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For Darren Campbell, Britain’s highest-ranked sprinter at one time, a court appearance in San Francisco of Dwain Chambers‘ coach Remi Korchemny on charges of distributing performance enhancing drugs added further to his suspicion that his rival had not acted alone.

“Whether he knew [he was taking drugs] or not, I never believed Dwain was solely accountable. I like Dwain, but I’m upset with the whole thing . . . it’s just dirty,” the silver medalist in the 200 meters in Sydney.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Korchemny’s alleged involvement, with three other men, in what amounts to a conspiracy to provide banned substances and to deliberately circumnavigate the drug-testing programme is a severe setback in Chambers’ efforts to avoid a two-year banas a result of his positive test for the designer anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).

There is no doubt, though, that the announcement on Thursday by John Ashcroft, the Attorney General of the United States, that criminal charges had been brought against Korchemny, Greg Anderson, a personal trainer of the baseball star Barry Bonds, and two executives of the California-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco) – the founder and owner Victor Conte and vice-president Jim Valente – was a watershed in the fight against doping. All have pleaded not guilty.

“Who’d have thought six months ago that you would see the Attorney General of the United States waving a 42-count indictment?” said Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Ex-President George Bush said, “The use of performance- enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message: that there are shortcuts to accomplishment and that performance is more important than character.”

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