The International Cricket Council is questioning the World Anti-doping Agency’s decision  to subject their athletes to Olympic drug regulations.

The Indians remained insistent that it poses as a security threat to high-profile athletes such as Sachin Tendulkar. They are confident that other nations would support them.

The WADA code demands that athletes must submit their whereabouts for an hour every day for the next three months so they can be tested at short notice. It is designed to prevent the use of hi-tech steroids that can be flushed out of the body quickly, yet steroid abuse is not seen as a problem in cricket.

The system was supposed to take effect last August 1 but the eleven cricketers involved refused to provide the required the information. The testing pool included Tendulkar.

The Board of Cricket Control for India  would rather see the International Cricket Council steup its own drug testing unit than adapt the Olympic regulations. However, the ICC seemed reluctant in committing the resources required.

In 2000, it has won respect around the world for the work of the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, formed in response to the match-fixing scandal. Since then, it has been used as a blueprint by other sports.

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The Indian board will seek to force a conclusion to the row over drugs-testing procedures at Tuesday’s International Cricket Council meeting in Johannesburg.

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According to Raymond Hack, South African Football Association (SAFA) Anti-doping Commission chairman, Drug Free Sport advised Golden Glove Promotions, Boxing SA, and boxing promoter Rodney Berman, that Lovett is not allowed to fight until his dope case is resolved. They were advised by Hack through a written statement.

Jared “The Storm” Lovett tested positive for steroids use last Jul11, 2009 after his 10-round loss to Thomas “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen.

Hack, who is a lawyer by profession, explained that any athlete who tests positive for doping tests and is scheduled to appear before a disciplinary committee is not eligible to participate in any sport.

Lovett, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is scheduled to appear before the Boxing SA’s disciplinary committee.

It was learned that Boxing SA is bounded by World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) Regulations.

Berman, the boxing promoter, said he already dropped Lovett from the tournament until his case is resolved. He respects the WADA code against steroid policies.

Lovett was previously scheduled to fight against Paraguay’s Javier Corrales for the IBO junior heavyweight youth title. The fight is supposed to be held at Emperor’s Palace on October 31, 2009.

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FLAMBOYANT young fighter Jared “The Storm” Lovett will not fight until his dope case is resolved.

Lovett, 22, tested positive for steroids after his 10- round loss to Thomas “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen on July 11.

Lovett, who commands huge support in the south of Johannesburg where he is based, has yet to appear before Boxing SA’s disciplinary committee.

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According to World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) President John Fahey, the 2010 list of banned substances reflects scientific advances.

Among those added in the list is the stimulant found in cold medicines, pseudoephedrine. According to the agency, the substance showed performance enhancing effects beyond certain doses.

The agency has been monitoring its use for the past five years, particularly the over-the-counter drugs Chlor-Trimeton Nasal Decongestant and Sudafed.

WADA will provide information and education about the use of this over-the-counter medicine. A urinary threshold was also set by the agency for this particular drug.

Salbutamol, an anti-asthma drug, will be allowed in minimal presence at the time of testing. Instead of requiring a Therapeutic Use Exemption, it will require a declaration of use.

“Blood spinning,” a process wherein platelets are segregated and injected into the area of injury to speed up tissue healing was also prohibited if administered through intramuscular injection. Other methods of administration will require a declaration of use.

However, supplemental oxygen, which was one prohibited, is now allowed by the agency.

During WADA’s executive committee meeting in Montreal, Fahey said that the annual revisions are founded on expanding anti-doping knowledge and continuous understanding of doping practices and trends.

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“The annual revision of the list is an elaborate and dynamic process involving international scientific experts and the solicitation of input from stakeholders so that changes are founded on expanding anti-doping knowledge, evidence from the field, and constantly growing understanding of doping practices and trends,” WADA’s President John Fahey said yesterday after the executive committee meeting in Montreal.

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If it is determined, that NFL could not run its steroid testing program effectively in cooperation with the player’s union, then it is possible that the league would give control of its steroid -testing program to an outside agency.

It would be a very significant move for the league, considering that it has administered its own testing policy for two decades.

The acknowledgement came after the court rulings on the case of Minnesota Vikings players were released. Courts ruled two issues involving Minnesota workplace laws while rejecting most of the players’ claims.

According to the league’s view, players belonging to different teams are subject to a different set of drug-testing rules depending on which state they play in.

In a telephone interview, Jeff Pash, the league counsel and executive vice president for labor said that their program was fragmented by wide-ranging state laws. If this were the case, then it would be best if they turn to an outside agency such as the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) to administer their drug-testing program. If there is anything they do not want to do, that is to stop the program because it has been beneficial to everyone.

According to The Washington Post:

The NFL might consider giving control of its steroid-testing program to an outside agency if it determines that it cannot continue to run the program effectively in cooperation with the players’ union, a top league official said Thursday. Such a move would represent a significant shift in policy for a league that has administered its testing policy in conjunction with the union for two decades.

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The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) is the independent body that monitors, controls and fights drug use in sport.

It has identified six different classes of prohibited substances: stimulants; narcotics; anabolic / androgenic steroids; diuretics; peptide hormones and other performance-enhancing drugs.

Currently, there are two methods available for steroid testing and only method used for HGH detection.

The first is through urine testing, which is by far the cheaper of the two. It is non-invasive, which means people with needle anxiety prefer this method of testing. It also has fewer complications compared to blood testing.

The second is blood screening. With this method, more banned substances can be detected and is proven to be sensitive compared to urine testing. Blood screening results are harder to “masked”.

HGH detection on the other hand, can only be done through blood screening.

A new kind of urine test is currently being developed by the George Mason University. It uses nanotechnology, which makes urine testing more sensitive. It can also detect HGH in urine for a longer period, up to two weeks time. However, it is still in the process of being approved by the World Anti-doping Agency.

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There is a new and promising HGH urine test that was developed at George Mason University. The new test uses nanotechnology to bind and amplify HGH in urine so that it may be detectable for a longer period of time. Blood screening can only detect HGH taken within the previous 24 to 48 hours. Nanotechnology may allow urine detection out to that two-week range.

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Many people would refer to Human Growth Hormone (HGH) as steroids. Actually, it’s not. Human growth hormone is a synthetic hormone.

For years, HGH has been promoted to increase healing following an injury or trauma, enhance athletic performance and increase cardiac output. Some even take HGH, which is believed to have anti-aging properties.

Professor John T. Wendt, Associate Professor in the Ethics and Business Law Department of the University of St. Thomas, a specialist in Sports Law and Olympics policies and business, explained the real effects of HGH, its side effects, and its impact in sports.

The major effect of HGH in the body is to stimulate the production and secretion of insulin. As insulin levels increases production of cartilage cells is stimulated. This results in bone growth and in organ growth.

Among the side effects of HGH include diabetes, muscle, joint and bone pain, abnormality in organ growth, hypertension, cardiac deficiency, accelerated osteoarthritis and worsening of cardiovascular diseases.

HGH is never permitted in and out of the competition, based on the World Anti-doping Authority rules.

There are cases, however, that steroids or PEDs use is permitted. A medical condition such as asthma is allowed by WADA to be treated with steroids such as Symbicort.

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Professor Wendt reiterates that using HGH is not permitted under the World Anti-Doping Authority’s list of Prohibited Substances and it is not possible for one to obtain a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for the hormone. Professor Wendt wrote, “The important thing to remember is that hGH is prohibited in both in- and out-of-competition. WADA uses a blood test to test for hGH and has been in use since the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.”

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Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a new, highly sensitive, anti-doping steroid test using hydropyrolysis. It’s a technique that has previously been used for oil exploration. The technique is also used to refine current radio carbon dating processes using carbon 14 isotope.

The process uses high pressure environments to investigate the chemical structure and make-up of a sample. It is refined at the University to develop highly accurate tests for detecting levels of illicit steroids in urine.

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Funding from the Natural Environment Research Council’s Ocean Margins LINK programme saw researchers take the hydropyrolysis technique and apply it to geochemical studies.

Colin Snape, Professor of Chemical Technology and Chemical Engineering at the University, said: “Steroids are produced naturally in the body, but they have a different carbon 13/carbon 12 ratios to those that have been introduced illicitly. By refining the measurements of these two isotopes we can produce a very accurate test for the presence of illegal steroids in athletes.

“We are currently working with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to develop the technique for trial and have entered into partnership with Strata Technology, a London-based company with expertise in high pressure equipment, to commercialize the technique.”

Professor Snape is an expert on hydropyrolysis - he’s been working on the technique, both in industry and academia, for the past 25 years. Over the coming year he hopes to refine the testing process, exploring optimum sample sizes and checking the sensitivity of the technique, working with WADA and experts in steroid testing from Imperial College London.

The same process can be used to detect the presence of illicit steroids in the urine of athletes - and racehorses. The test procedure is already in the process of being commercialized and is expected to be ready for use in the 2012 Olympics.

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Tyler Hamilton, the American cyclist, declared his retirement from the international scenario on Friday due to his positive test findings for a banned substance. Hamilton said that he was battling from depression.

Prior to declaration, Hamilton, the Olympic gold-medal winner, confessed of taking an over-the-counter homeopathic anti-depressant containing the steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.

In a teleconference the emotional cyclist said, “There are times when you are at such a low, low point anything that you can do — if it was taking a hammer and hitting yourself over the head you’d do it to feel better.” He also said, “I was desperate. Was it the right decision? Absolutely not. At the time I didn’t think about the consequences. The people who suffer from the disease of depression…understand my drastic decision.”

The 38-year-old cyclist said that in 2003 he was first detected with depression and accepted that he got positive for DHEA during an out-of-competition test on February 9 while he was training for the Tour of California. However, Hamilton had denied the allegations that he used the steroid to enhance his performance in his next-to-last finish in the race.

From Reuters:

Olympic gold medal-winner Tyler Hamilton has tested positive for a banned substance and retired from cycling, the American said Friday.

Hamilton said he is battling depression and admitted taking an over-the-counter homeopathic anti-depressant containing the steroid DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), which is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.

“There are times when you are at such a low, low point anything that you can do — if it was taking a hammer and hitting yourself over the head you’d do it to feel better,” he said during an emotional teleconference.

“I was desperate. Was it the right decision? Absolutely not. At the time I didn’t think about the consequences. The people who suffer from the disease of depression…understand my drastic decision.”

The U.S. national road champion, Hamilton won a gold medal in the 2004 Athens Olympic. It was in the month of September of that year only that he tested positive for blood doping and got a two-year suspension ban. Meanwhile, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said that despite Hamilton’s retirement, it would reveal the cyclist’s sanction “in the coming months.”

According to the WADA code, a player is subject to a ban from eight years to life time if he is charged second time in a doping offence.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is facing new criticism against its new set of codes as they still breach the European data protection laws. Criticism of WAD’s code has come first from the tennis and football frontiers. The Professional Players’ Association, an umbrella group of professional player associations in the UK, even alleged that out-of-competition testing rule of WADA was becoming a “fiasco”.

However, the allegation was rejected by WADA, but its latest testing procedures were also called as”draconian” by current British tennis number one Andy Murray.

Though, in the past reports, WADA officials had stressed that the new code, which came into force at the beginning of this year, was formed after having consultation with athletes and European regulators.They insisted that the code would be a proportionate response to the rising threat of steroids abuse in sports.

The BBC has obtained a copy of a report by the Article 29 of working party for the European Commission, which states that numerous issues remain problematic. It also questions about the neccessity of binding so many athletes by the code. In addition, it consists of the “whereabouts system”, where athletes can disclose where they are for one hour of every single day.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency’s new code is set for renewed criticism, with new claims it may still contravene European data protection laws.

The BBC has obtained a copy of a report by the Article 29 working party for the European Commission, which says that numerous issues remain problematic.

It also questions whether so many athletes need to be bound by the code.

It includes the “whereabouts system”, where athletes reveal where they are for one hour of every single day.

Under the rules, any athlete on the national testing register must make themselves available to testers for one hour a day, between 0600 and 2300, three months in advance.

According to the WADA rules, athletes, named under the national testing register, must make themselves available to examiners for one hour a day, between 0600 and 2300, for three months in advance. This testing process is to be done online with the help of Adams (Anti-Doping Administration & Management System) website and can be updated by email or text message.

However, the working party report, which will be published next week, could raise concerns in regard of information gathering and its secure transferring processes. The report would also suggest that the policy of naming drugs cheaters and making the details of their doping abuse online publicly is not required.

But from the Football frontview, it seems that its place in the Olympics is under threat after world governing body FIFA and its European counterpart, UEFA, said that they would not comply with the code because they wanted to respect players’ privacy.

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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.

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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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