The doping scandal in India involving school children is threatening to take shocking proportions with schools from Punjab and Maharashtra topping the list of offenders.

According to National Anti-Doping Agency, 11 children – from boxing, wrestling, and weightlifting – tested positive for steroids and diuretics during the 57th National School Games, which concluded recently in New Delhi.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

While the three wrestlers tested positive for diuretic furosemide (a substance used to mask the presence of prohibited substances in the body), the weightlifters’ samples contained the steroid stanozolol THC (found in marijuana). The boxers tested positive for a cocktail of banned drugs – stanozolol THC (marijuana), methylhexaneamine and nandrolone.

Those caught for doping in wrestling are from schools in Maharashtra, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, while in weightlifting the positive cases came from the students of Delhi and Punjab schools. In boxing, the positive samples were found in students from Maharashtra, Manipur and Punjab.

“This has become a very serious matter. That 14 per cent of the samples have returned positive is a matter of shame for the schools and officials. It is much higher than the national average of 4 per cent,” NADA director general Rahul Bhatnagar told TOI.

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The former WWE and TNA wrestling star, Matt Hardy, is back in jail. Hardy was arrested early Saturday morning after he was reportedly booted from a rehabilitation center after failing a Breathalyzer test.

The 37-year-old was booked into the jail at 1:40 a.m. on Saturday. Jeff Hardy, his brother, is back competing in TNA Wrestling after receiving 10 days in jail, 30 days probation, and a fine of $100,000 in a September plea bargain that stemmed from his 2009 arrest on drug charges.

From Thepilot.com:

Multiple wrestling websites are reporting that Hardy was expelled from the rehab program on Nov. 18 after he failed a Breatha-lyzer test. Members of the rehabilitation center staff administered the test after they became suspicious of Hardy’s behavior, according to TMZ.com.

Hardy said he wasn’t drinking and had failed the test because he’d just used mouthwash, TMZ reported.

“I’m reading a lot of ridiculous things on the ‘dirtsheets’ tonight,” Hardy’s girlfriend, Reby Sky, said on Formspring. “So to clear things up: I could have bailed him out and did not. He’s still in jail. Have fun with that.”

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Chris Carnage, the HWA wrestler, has been indicted on drug trafficking, drug possession, and other felony charges.

Carnage was indicted for his involvement in a steroid ring that allegedly imported drugs from China, processed them in Tennessee, and then sold them to high school athletes and other customers.

From Examiner.com:

According to authorities up to 32 people were involved in making and distribution of the steroids which were purchased in powder form in China and then processed in Tennessee before being distributed by a number of dealers who were often rewarded with bonuses. Among those arrested were a bank manager, a financial planner, a health club manager and a stay-home mother. Over $600,000 worth of steroids were recovered by police along with $300,000 in cash and a cache of assault rifles and other firearms.

The wrestler worked mostly in the Mid-West and some southern federations including working a TV taping for Ohio Valley Wrestling in 2010.

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At the ongoing Kabaddi World Cup in the northern state of Punjab, local organizers are grappling with rampant doping after 18 participants tested positive for banned steroids.

A popular team sport in south Asia, Kabaddi, is a seven-person game that involves “raiding” the opponents’ side, WITH tackling, and wrestling.

From Taiwannews.com.tw:

Punjab sports director Pargat Singh was quoted in Thursday’s edition of The Times of India as saying that local organizers wanted to find a solution to the menace since “the tournament’s reputation is at stake.”

Three players tested positive from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, two from Norway, and one each from Italy, Argentina, Spain and Germany.

The doping count has now gone up to 18.

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On September 14, Matt Hardy was charged with drug possession following a search warrant being executed on his home in Cameron, North Carolina.

Police seized 20 vials of Anabolic Steroids, 1 “dosage unit of MDMA” (Ecstasy), $1,961.00 as well as unnamed drug paraphernalia during the search.

From Examiner.com:

Hardy has been charged with possession with intent to sell/deliver schedule III controlled substance (the steroids), possession of schedule I controlled substance (the Ecstasy), maintaining a place to keep controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to TMZ, the search warrant was executed after a phone call from Hardy’s girlfriend Rebecca Reyes (better known in wrestling circles as Reby Sky) to 911.  Reyes was concerned for Hardy’s well being.  When police arrived she led them to a safe containing several painkillers.

Matt and Jeff Hardy, brothers, made up a popular pro wrestling team known as the Hardy Boyz.

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The Moore County Sheriff’s Office recently disclosed that former professional wrestler Matt Hardy has been charged with possession of steroids.

This news comes just a few days after Hardy was charged with DWI for the second time in less than a month.

From Abclocal.go.com:

Moore County Sheriff Lane Carter said deputies searched a home on Boys Camp Road in Cameron and seized 20 vials of anabolic steroids, one dose of the drug Ecstasy, along with cash and drug paraphernalia.

Hardy, 36, whose legal name is Matthew Moore Hardy, was charged with possession with intent to sell/deliver schedule III controlled substance (anabolic steroids), possession of schedule I controlled substance (Ecstasy), maintain a place to keep controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was released from the Moore County Detention Center on a promise to appear in court later this month.

Police at Raleigh-Durham International Airport arrested Hardy last week after a driver reported a 2011 red Chevrolet Camaro was swerving across traffic and had nearly hit a couple of different cars three times.

Hardy and Jeff, his brother, made up a popular pro wrestling team known as the Hardy Boyz.

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Katsuya Kitamura, a leading Greco-Roman Japanese wrestler, has been banned for duration of two years after being found guilty of doping.

The ban means that the wrestler who tested positive to anabolic steroids is now out of next year’s London Olympics after banned by the Japan Anti-Doping Agency.

From Insidejapantours.com:

The Japan Anti-Doping Agency implemented the ban – for testing positive for anabolic steroids – on Monday (June 13th), ruling Mr Kitamura out of next year’s London Olympics.

Yuji Takada, who is the general secretary of the Japan Wrestling Federation, said the organisation will work to ensure others are not taking performance-enhancing drugs.

“We never thought our wrestlers were buying supplements from overseas,” he said.

“We’ve become trouble for the sports community with the London Olympics right around the corner. We will work to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Earlier this year, twenty five wrestlers and other people involved in the sport were severely punished for being involved in the match-fixing in Japanese sumo wrestling.

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Katsuya Kitamura, the three-time Japanese Greco-Roman wrestling champion, will miss the London Olympics next year after he was banned for two years.

The 25-year-old was banned on June 13, 2011 after testing positive for anabolic steroids.

From Reuters.com:

The triple 96-kilo national champion, the first Japanese wrestler to fail a drugs test, told Japan’s anti-doping agency JADA he took the substance by accident after buying supplements abroad.

“We never thought our wrestlers bought supplements from overseas,” Japan Wrestling Federation (JWF) general secretary Yuji Takada told local media.

“This has smeared the sports community with the London Olympics coming up. We will take measures to ensure this does not happen again.”

Kitamura — who the JWF said tested positive for the banned muscle-building substance drostanolone — is not expected to appeal the ban, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported.

The wrestler has represented Japan at two world championships without winning a medal.

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Jim Cornette, veteran commentator, promoter and booker for TNA, aired his sentiments over the condition of wrestling by saying that wrestlers are forced into drugs. This remark has come as a serious blow to reports in the past that Vince McMahon did not support the use of steroids.

Cornette also remarked that Vince McMahon is promoting larger-than-life stars in WWE and the wrestlers are supporting his ideology by using steroids to keep a high-profile job in the wrestling business.

From Pwtorch.com:

Cornette views Andrew “Test” Martin as an example of a wrestler being re-hired because he has a certain look and not for any additional talent he could bring to the table. Cornette says Martin probably felt the need to look a certain way, which required use of steroids.

“As far as Test goes, it’s a tragedy that a guy is 33 years old and is gone because he got involved in professional wrestling,” Cornette said recently on the Who’s Slamming Who podcast. “In the old days, everybody was a cowboy and if they did drugs, they did it for recreation because they were making too much money. That’s almost easier to take, to me, than guys feeling like they have to do drugs to keep a job or they have to do drugs because their bodies are so broken down from the style that they get addicted to them.”

Cornette says the combination of hardcore wrestling and fewer jobs in wrestling have made it difficult for wrestlers to stay away from an addictive lifestyle. Moves don’t mean as much, so wrestlers have to use weapons that lead to pain pill addiction. Fewer jobs are available with only one major player, so wrestlers have to look a certain way to get major-league work.

Cornette further remarked that there seems to be no coming back for the good for wrestlers particularly when they have shorter life-spans in the business and in life.

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The death of Eki “Eddie” Fatu, a two-time Intercontinental Champion and cousin of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, has put Senate hopeful Linda McMahon fighting a different kind of bout.

Eki was a wrestler with a history of substance abuse and died of an apparent heart attack at the young age of 36.

From Stamfordadvocate.com:

McMahon’s critics say that Friday’s death of Eki “Eddie” Fatu, a two-time Intercontinental Champion commonly known as “Umaga” and the cousin of actor/wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is a further indictment of WWE’s lax drug policy and general disregard for the welfare of its entertainers, a number of whom have gone down similar paths of self-destruction.

“The sheer number of deaths raises serious questions about whether or not Linda McMahon, as CEO, has done all she can to stop them,” said Jim Barnett, campaign manager for former Rep. Rob Simmons, who has developed an intense rivalry with McMahon to represent the GOP in next year’s Senate race against Chris Dodd. “I think most CEOs, if they saw their employees and former employees dropping dead in their 30s and 40s at this astonishing rate would be compelled morally and ethically, if not legally, to get to the bottom of it.”

Robert Zimmerman of the WWE remarked that Eki was asked by the WWE to go into rehab and his contract was terminated in June upon his refusal to do so.

Irvin Muchnick, who has written several books on the culture of pro wrestling, said that the 2007 suicide of WWE star Chris Benoit and murder of his wife and son, as well as the 2005 heart failure of Eddie Guerrero Llanes are cocktails of death that are promoted by the wrestling industry.

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