Positive HGH test for Canadian football player

A Canadian college football player has became the first athlete to test positive for HGH (human growth hormone) in North America after his team was suspended for the 2010 season because of a steroid scandal.

According to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports (CCES), one of the 20 blood tests collected from the University of Waterloo team was positive for HGH.

From Pressofatlanticcity.com:

Earlier this year, the British anti-doping authority announced a two-year ban on a rugby player, who became the first athlete anywhere to be suspended for using HGH.

In June, Waterloo suspended its football program for a full season after finding evidence of nine doping violations from 62 urine tests. One of those athlete’s blood tests also came back positive for HGH. His sanction will be announced next Wednesday, along with penalties for three other players.

HGH is among the hardest performance-enhancing drugs to test for, with no urine test available and a new blood test being developed that is expected to augment the one currently being used.

The Waterloo case is believed by many as the most significant doping case in the history of Canadian college sports wherein the school tested the entire team after a player was arrested in the spring and charged with possession and trafficking of anabolic steroids.

Tags: anabolic steroids, HGH, human growth hormone, steroid scandal