Posts Tagged ‘anabolic steroids’

MMA phenom Cris “Cyborg” Santos has been suspended by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) for testing positive for anabolic steroids prior to her bout with Hiroko Yamanaka on Dec.17.2011.

The legitimacy of Cyborg’s bulky frame has been questioned for years but this is the first time an official testing has confirmed those suspicions.

From Mmaboom.com:

Along with her suspension, Cris “Cyborg” Santos will face a $2,500 fine and her bout with Hiroko Yamanaka will be retroactively changed to a No Decision (NC). With Santos currently out of the women’s MMA picture, there are early concerns that the Strikeforce 145 lb women’s division may be in big trouble moving forward. With all the best female fighters at 135, and Santos now gone, it wouldn’t be shocking to see the two divisions merged or purged in some fashion in the near future.

As it would happen, the recent confirmation of Ronda Rousey vs. Miesha Tate now makes that contest the biggest match possible in women’s MMA, although that’s a bit of a bittersweet recognition under the circumstances.

The news has once again brought the relationship between steroids and professional sports to the limelight.

A court has heard that a man facing drugs charges after a police raid which allegedly turned up cash, cocaine, MDMA, and steroids was already on bail for a serious offence.

Gregory Jason Merrilees briefly faced the ACT Magistrates Court after being arrested on Thursday night following the search.

From Canberratimes.com.au:

Police allege they found 8g of suspected cocaine, 100 tablets believed to be MDMA or ”ecstasy” and three vials of steroids.

Merrilees’ lawyer told the court her client was already on bail over serious alleged offences which carry a maximum penalty of five years or more. Under territory law a person accused of committing further crimes while on bail for a serious offence has to show special or exceptional circumstances to justify their release on bail again. Merrilees was remanded in custody.

The 39-year-old was formally charged with unlawful possession of property, cocaine trafficking, possessing anabolic steroids, and is also facing a charge of driving while disqualified.

The Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion and considered by many as the baddest woman on the planet, Cristiane Justino Santos tested positive for anabolic steroids the day before her most devastating career win.

The featherweight champion, better known as “Cyborg,” tested positive for the anabolic steroid Stanozolol, also known as Winstrol, according to a release by the California State Athletic Commission.

From Uk.eurosport.yahoo.com:

The result of the fight held on the Dec. 17 Strikeforce show at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego has been overturned by the commission and ruled a no contest.

“Our primary concern is for the health and safety of fighters,” CSAC Executive Officer George Dodd said in a press release sent out on Friday.

“Anabolic agents and other banned substances put not only the users of those agents at risk, but their opponents as well. The commission simply will not tolerate their use.”

The test happened on Dec. 16, the day before she knocked out the top contender for the title, Japan’s Hiroko Yamanaka, in only 16 seconds.

A North Alabama satellite technician who admitted to illegally selling anabolic steroids to a Monroe County doctor has been sentenced by a federal judge to 5 months in prison, followed by 3 years’ probation.

Chief U.S. District Judge William Steele decided to grant Ashley Dewayne Rivers, of Morgan County, the 50 percent sentencing reduction he likely would have been eligible for had his cooperation efforts paid off as he had tried to help law enforcement investigators pursue other cases.

From Blog.al.com:

Rivers pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to illegally dispense anabolic steroids. He admitted to selling the performance-enhancing drugs to Dr. Mark Koch, who faces his own sentencing hearing next month.

Defense attorney James Robinson asked Steele to impose “stringent” probation that would allow his client “no wiggle room” as an alternative to prison. He said Rivers and his wife care for their own 2 adopted children in addition to the 3 children of his disabled brother.

“Mr. Rivers knew when he got into this that there was a risk to this. He never for one minute was misguided into this,” Robinson said. “Ashley knows this is his fault.”

“I don’t think it’s lost on you that this is a serious offense,” Steele said.

UK Athletics has been accused of encouraging the British discus thrower, Brett Morse, to work with a coach who was banned for taking anabolic steroids.

A former discus thrower, Vesteinn Hafsteinsson, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and was suspended for two years.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

UK Athletics says it was Morse’s personal decision to change coaches and insists it is not paying Hafsteinsson for his services.

But Bevan, who competed for Britain in the javelin at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, claims the move to Hafsteinsson was orchestrated by UK Athletics. He cites an email, seen by Telegraph Sport, which was sent to him by UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee on Oct 16, 2010.

“We identified a need for greater technical input into Brett’s training and a person who could deliver that to the athlete and his coach in a controlled and monitored environment. The athlete has now chosen to work with this coach,” a spokeswoman for UK Athletics said.

One Pennsylvania columnist thinks he has figured out why Alex Ovechkin hasn’t been the dynamic player he has been in years past, as the Capitals continue to find their footing after recent changes to the coaching staff.

A long time Pittsburgh sports scribe, the Capitals center isn’t what he used to be because he is off the juice, according to the Pennsylvania Observer-Reporter’s John Steigerwald.

From Wtop.com:

The guy was superhuman when he first came into the league. He had the hardest shot anybody had seen in years. Goalies around the league talked about how it was different from everybody else’s shot.

He’s taking about half as many shots as he used to.

Is any of this proof that Ovechkin’s performance was enhanced before, and now it’s not? No. But, you combine it with the fact that his doctor was charged with bringing PEDs over the border from Canada, and it gives you the right to be suspicious.

Add to that the fact a Washington D.C. chiropractor was investigated after he bragged about supplying steroids to members of the Capitals and Washington Nationals.

The chiropractor Stigerwald refers to is Douglas Nagel, who was arrested in 2010 for buying anabolic steroids from a Florida dealer.

For his part in a Fredericton-based anabolic steroid trafficking conspiracy, Perry Gustav Moore, 45, of Glace Bay, N.S., was sentenced to seven months of house arrest and fined $5,000.

Moore was one of twenty people who were charged in connection with Operation Jellybean, a two-year, joint-forces drug investigation focused in Fredericton.

From Dailygleaner.canadaeast.com:

The goal of Jellybean, which began in 2005, was to disrupt the sale of cocaine, marijuana, prescription drugs and anabolic steroids in New Brunswick.

Defence lawyer Howard Peters said Friday his client, who pleaded guilty, was only involved in selling anabolic steroids and was at the lower end of the scale in the conspiracy.

Peters said Moore was buying steroids for personal use and for sale in his gym in Glace Bay, N.S., and wasn’t selling in his community in general.

Crown prosecutor William Lebans painted a similar picture about Moore.

Moore was ordered to pay a $750 victim-fine surcharge in addition to the $5,000 fine.

A new study has found that adolescent football players may be at a higher risk of suffering from stroke.

Various case studies of football players in their teens that suffered a stroke and found some potential causes for strokes in young football athletes were evaluated by Jared R. Brosch and Meredith R. Golomb.

From News.bioscholar.com:

They found that some of the potential risks include an increase of hyperventilation, repeated neurological injury, use of anabolic steroids, use of highly caffeinated energy drinks and an increase in obesity of young players.

The authors point out the increase in obesity presents a two-fold risk as it not only increases the force of impacts among the players, but also the likelihood for other stroke risk factors such as hypertension.

“Two of our subjects had mild hypertension, but were too young to have had the many years of exposure that would lead to chronic vascular injury,” the researchers said.

The study has been published in the Journal of Child Neurology (JCN).

Ryan Braun, who joined the Milwaukee Brewers in 2007, does not fit the image fans conjure up when they hear that a baseball slugger has been accused of using performance enhancing drugs.

Braun helped drive the Brewers to the playoffs and was voted the NFL’s Most Valuable Player.

From Greenbaypressgazette.com:

A spokesman for Braun said in a statement issued to ESPN and The Associated Press that there are “highly unusual circumstances surrounding this case which will support Ryan’s complete innocence.”

ESPN cited two sources Saturday in first reporting the result, saying Braun tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone, adding that a later test by the World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Montreal determined the testosterone was synthetic. Braun is appealing, according to people familiar with the case.

“One theory is that anabolic steroids hasten the repair of those muscle fibers, and allow you to work out harder,” Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin, said.

A couple living lavish lifestyles while operating a multi-million pound racket to import and supply anabolic steroids have been stripped of assets worth more than £1.3m, under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

In December 2010, Patrick Hyland and his estranged wife Hyacinth were both jailed at Chelmsford Crown Court.

From Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk:

During the trial Patrick Hyland was described as the chief executive of the smuggling operation, while his wife was involved in the organisation when he was abroad sourcing and buying anabolic steroids.

Patrick Hyland was sentenced to 54 months and Hyacinth Hyland, of Little Waltham, near Chelmsford, was handed a two year sentence.

At a Proceeds of Crime Confiscation hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court this week (December 6 and 7) Patrick Hyland, 49, of Great Saling, was found to have accrued a criminal benefit of £5,142,110.

“The defendants will have to make considerable payments in line with the confiscation orders and if not they face additional time in custody, this clearly highlights to those involved criminality that crime really does not pay and we will continue to use this dynamic legislation to hammer home that principle,” Det Chief Insp Keith Davies, head of the Kent and Essex Police serious economic crime unit, said.