Archive for March, 2011

Success in professional sports is solely measured by consistent rock-solid results but the human body may not always demonstrate a successful run. This is the reason why more and more sportsmen want to stay high on “invincibility” by opting for best performance enhancing drugs such as Clenbuterol.

Clenbuterol, which is also known by the names Clenbuteral and Spiropent, is an anti-catabolic anabolic that is primarily used to lose weight before a professional meet. Clen is also effective in enhancing levels of performance and development of solid muscle mass by facilitating improved transportation of oxygenated blood. Since Clenbuterol does not lead to lose of muscle mass and size while helping users lose extra kilos under the belt and safe and affordable at the same time, its success and popularity over the years have remain unchallenged.

The selective Beta-2-symphatonimetric agonist has the chemical formula of C₁₂H₁₈ CI₂N₂O and has the chemical name of -Amino-alpha-[(tert-butylamino) methyl]-3,5-dichlorobenzyl alcohol Monohydrochloride. It is available in varying forms such as injections, tablets, and syrups and has an active life of approximately 35-40 hours and can be detected over a period of 2-3 months.

Clenbuterol, the pre-contest cutting drug, demonstrates great efficacy when used in doses of 100-140 mcg per day for men and 0-100 mcg/day for women. Clenbuterol is not meant for individuals having an existing hypersensitivity to the drug or its ingredients or pregnant and breastfeeding women. Indiscriminate use of Clenbuterol or use of low grade Clen can lead to side effects such as tachycardia, excessive sweating, nausea, palpitation, limb tremor, and insomnia.

The Customs has found €200,000 of drugs under the steroid label since beginning of the year 2004.

This disclosure reveals an increase in the number of seizures of illegal anabolic steroids at Ireland’s ports and airports.

From Independent.ie:

In one seizure drugs with a street value of €130,000 were found while a number of seizures of €20,000 each have been made.

According to the Revenue, this may only be the tip of the iceberg as many substances are being posted into the country for sale in gyms.

Earlier this year a Croatian national was charged in Kilkenny with possessing 26,000 illegal anabolic steroids; with keeping for supply 20,000 methandienone tablets, worth an estimated €12,000 and with importing 6,000 tablets, worth around €3,500.

According to the Revenue, the seizures are a relatively new departure with substances coming in from Thailand , Japan and Eastern Europe.

Officer Helen McGoldrick said there were serious safety issues around counterfeiting steroids.

Athletes are banned from taking anabolic steroids that are illegal in sport as they speed up the process of both muscle building and recovery.

Deca Durabolin is one of those anabolic steroids that do not need an introduction. This is primarily because this performance enhancing drug is not potent and safe but also affordable and easily accessible. Professional sportsmen, all over the world, completely swear by benefits of this steroid when it comes to inducing muscle mass and body strength gains in as short as 6-8 weeks.

Deca Durabolin, which is also known as Deca and Nandrolone Decanoate, helps in buildup of solid muscles and improves stamina and performance over a continuous period of time by stimulating the processes of protein synthesis and nitrogen retention.

Classified as a 2.16 anabolic steroid, Deca Durabolin has an anabolic/androgenic ratio of 125:37

In the world of health care, Deca Durabolin is an integral part of adjuvant therapies related to specific blood disorders and is even recommended to women with disseminated breast cancer and osteoporosis caused by androgen deficiency in hypogonadal males.

The recommended dose of Deca Durabolin for men is 25-50 mg every three weeks for performance enhancing purposes. The doses should not be altered without medical recommendation else this could lead to steroid side effects such as suppression of the ovarian activity, water and salt retention, and reduced ejaculatory volume. Deca is not recommended to males afflicted with mammary or prostatic cancer and individuals suffering from jaundice, liver disease, hepatic carcinoma, or renal failure. It is also not recommended for use by girls and women, especially pregnant and breastfeeding women, unless otherwise specifically recommended by a qualified medical practitioner.

Founder of the designer drugs pharmacy BALCO, Victor Conte, has disclosed 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.

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, Conte said.

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.

Mikel Astarloza, the Euskaltel-Euskadi rider, has been suspended for a period of two years after a positive test for the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO).

Astarloza won the 16th stage of last year’s Tour de France, finishing 11th overall.

From Guardian.co.uk:

“I want to publicly announce that I have received a letter from the RFEC [the Spanish federation] notifying me that I am officially suspended until 26 June 2011 for having broken International Cycling Union rules,” he said via his website.

“I maintain that I have done nothing wrong … I will appeal this suspension to the relevant authorities,” he added without elaborating further.

Euskaltel-Euskadi rider Astarloza tested positive in an out-of-competition test collected last June and was provisionally suspended on 31 July last year.

The cyclist however denied any wrongdoings and said he would appeal.

Dimitry Fofonov, the Kazakh rider, has been expelled by the Credit Agricole team after he tested positive for heptaminol during the Tour de France.

The produced a positive A sample following the 18th stage from Bourg d’Oisans to St Etienne that was won by Marcus Burghardt.

From Espnstar.com:

Fofonov’s failed test was confirmed by race organisers shortly after Carlos Sastre claimed overall victory after Sunday’s final stage into Paris.

Credit Agricole, the French bank which sponsors Fofonov’s former team, had announced prior to the Tour that they were ending their sponsorship at the end of 2008.

The team won two stages of the Tour through Thor Hushovd and Simon Gerrans.

Fofonov is the fourth rider to test positive for a banned substance on the 2008 Tour after Manuel Beltran, Moises Duenas Nevado and Riccardo Ricco, who all were found guilty of EPO use.

This incident once again highlighted the link between cycling and doping that has seen many highs during the last few years.

The 37-year-old climber from Spain, Manuel Beltran, recently insisted that he should be considerd innocent unless the results of his failed dope test are confirmed.

The Liquigas team removed him from the race after his urine sample was found to include traces of the banned substance Erythropoetin (EPO).

From Espnstar.com:

If a B sample proves his guilt, Beltran will be the first rider to fail a drugs test in the 2008 Tour, a year after one of the most tainted races in history.

“Following the normal conduct in this type of procedure, I will request the analysis of the B sample and I ask you to respect my presumption of innocence until the results of that analysis,” said Beltran.

“I want to express my wish that neither the sponsors of the team nor my team-mates are prejudiced against by these facts, and I hope that nobody takes actions against them which would prejudice them in an indiscriminate manner.

“I am grateful for the words of support I have received.

“Everybody has reminded me of the occasions when in this type of procedure, the B sample analysis has not confirmed the result of the A sample analysis.”

EPO is an injectable hormone, which stimulates the production of red blood cells and enhances transport of oxygen to the muscles.

A number of riders have admitted undergoing EPO programmes in past years.

Beltran’s protestation means that Tour organisers, the Amaury Sport Organisation, are forced to contend with the sort of doping scandal they hoped would be avoided this year.

Liquigas general manager Roberto Amadio said, “It is unthinkable. We have a very hard line of doping in the team.”

Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, will not be offering consent to a retest of six samples from his first Tour de France win to see if they contain EPO traces.

Pierre Bordry, President of the French anti-doping agency (AFLD), had raised the possibility of asking the cyclist to undergo a new analysis of the urine samples taken from the 1999 Tour.

From Espnstar.com:

With Armstrong set to make a comeback in 2009 after three years away from the peloton, Bordry felt such a move would give the seven-time Tour winner “a chance to confirm that he never cheated in his brilliant career”.

But Armstrong will not agree to the AFLD’s request, insisting the matter is in the past.

“He is not interested in discussing again results from samples taken in 1999,” Mark Higgins, Armstrong’s media spokesman, is quoted as saying in L’Equipe.

“I will refer the AFLD or whoever will ask the questions on this subject to the Vrijman report.”

Higgins is referring to a report, published in 2006 by Dutch lawyer Emile Vrijman, which cleared Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour and accused anti-doping authorities of misconduct in dealing with the American.

In an age of doping scandals that have rocked the sport over the past few years, many sceptics still doubt that Armstrong was clean when he won his seven successive Tours between 1999 and 2005.

Despite the fact that Armstrong has never been caught cheating, many sceptics still doubt that he was free from drugs when he won his seven successive Tours between 1999 and 2005.

Bjarne Riis’s name has been removed from the record books of Tour de France after the cyclist confessed using drugs in the 1996 race.

Christian Prudhomme made this announcement and shared it with the Guardian.

From Guardian.co.uk:

“Formally it’s down to the International Cycling Union to disqualify him but for us he can no longer be the winner and he has already been wiped from the road book [the official press guide] you will see at the start of the Tour,” said Prudhomme.

“His name will not be at the top of the page, and below we will put that following his confession he cannot be considered the winner of that Tour,” said the organiser.

Riis confessed to using the blood booster erythropoietin and growth hormone between 1993 and 1998 when he was at his peak. He has been requested to return the yellow jersey he was awarded in 1996 and negotiations are taking place to that end.

Prudhomme did not commented when asked if Erik Zabel of Germany, who confessed to using EPO during the 1996 event when he took his first victory in the award, will find the same fate.

Dianabol or Dbol is rated by many professional sportsmen as one of the most potent and safest anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs. This steroid is also known as Methandrostenolone and is second to none when it comes to promoting enhancements in terms of performance and body strength.

Dianabol, the derivative of testosterone, demonstrates unparalleled strong anabolic and moderate androgenic properties and is one of the most commonly used oral steroids in today’s market of anabolic steroids.

The chemical name of Dianabol is 17ß-hydroxy-17a-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one and its molecular formula is C₂₀H₂₈O₂. It has the molecular weight of 300.435 g/mol at the base and is available as a performance enhancing drug in oral and injectable forms. The 17-alkylate steroid is highly effective for stimulating nitrogen retention, protein synthesis, endurance, body strength, red blood cells, performance, and muscle mass improvements in a short span of 4-6 weeks. However, the doses of Dianabol should not be altered at will and consumed without medical guidance as it can cause liver damage due to indiscriminate use or abuse.

If you are considering Dianabol for a steroid cycle, it is recommended that you have ready supplies of antiestrogens such as Clomid or Nolvadex so that excess estrogen formation does not become a concern for you. The recommended dose of Dianabol, in oral form, for men is 25-50 mg per day and 50-150 mg per week for men, when taken in an injectable form. This anabolic steroid is not recommended to girls and women, especially those who are breastfeeding or expecting.