Boxer Juan Manuel Marquez Accused Of Using Anabolic Steroids
Mexican professional boxer Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez, a five-division world champion, may be using banned performance enhancing drugs, according to Victor Conte. The presence of acne on the chest on Marquez was rated as a sign of doping by Conte who remarked elevated testosterone levels in teen males can cause acne.
The controversy seems to exist because of the acne being evident, and also the fact Marquez is working with Angel “Memo” Heredia, who is known to have administered performance-enhancing drugs to US Olympic athletes, including multi-gold medal winner Marion Jones.
Manny Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz says he will insist on random drug testing by the Volunteer Anti-Doping Agency, should they agree to a fifth fight with Marquez.
Conte made these comments after Marquez scored a sensational win over Mike Alvarado in their 12-round welterweight clash. Marquez booked a 117-109, 117-109, 119-108 win over Alvarado. Several boxing enthusiasts started criticizing Marquez after his chest was seen filled with pimples and acne.
Conte, the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative or BALCO, spent four months in jail after his company was found guilty of producing and distributing anabolic androgenic steroids. He also served a four-month house arrest after he pleaded guilty for conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering. Since then Conte has been an outspoken advocate to clean up elite level sports of doping, PED and anabolic steroid use.Nowadays, Conte is involved in research for producing legal ways of making athletes perform better including hypoxic training..
In a statement, Conte blasted drug testing methods performed by the state commissions, inability of the media to report it, and the lack of interest of boxing promoters in cleaning up the sport. Conte went on to remark that promoters of boxing are enabling and promoting the use of performance enhancing drugs in boxing and this is all because of money. He continued that a dark cloud will hover without random testing and added random testing hopefully will become the standard for elite boxers in the near future.
Max Kellerman, the host of Face Off and one of the voices of HBO boxing, also raised his doubts about Juan Manuel Marquez. Kellerman said he is always highly cynical when he sees a guy who gets faster when he gets older and added that we live in a time where even before you get in association with people who have been caught up in scandals involving PEDs, there’s always that cloud of suspicion with a modern athlete who performs well and maybe differently as he gets to an advanced athletic age. Kellerman also remarked there is always that suspicion and that has certainly followed Marquez in recent years, particularly after the (fourth Manny) Pacquiao fight.
However, John Kelvin of Boxing News 24, said the emphatic win was a result of Marquez’s great conditioning and savvy in the ring. The boxing writer said this accusation has been floating around since Marquez linked up with strength and conditioning coach Angel Heredia, before his knockout victory over his great rival Manny Pacquiao. He added Juan Manuel Marquez has never failed a drug test in his career, so there is no evidence to suggest that he is doing anything illegal. In his article, Kelvin remarked it is disrespectful of some fans to throw such damaging accusations at a great fighter who has given so many great nights and fights to the world. Marquez has got to the level he is at in his career due to hard work, determination, and discipline.
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News: Tyson Gay Suspension For Banned Substance
United States Anti-Doping Agency has announced that Tyson Gay has been suspended for one year, following a positive test for a banned substance in two out-of-competition and one in-competition tests last year.
The 31-year-old US sprinter and former world champion at both 100m and 200m, accepted a one-year period of ineligibility which began on June 23, 2013, the same day his sample was collected at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Gay tested positive for ‘exogenous androgenic anabolic steroid and/or its metabolites’, which we believe was a product given to him called, “Testosterone/DHEA Crème”, which contained substances, testosterone, DHEA, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and human growth hormone (HGH).
Due to Gay admitting using banned substances that clearly offer an advantage in speed, performance and the promotion of muscle mass, he has returned the silver medal he won as part of the US team in the men’s 4x100m relay at the 2012 London Olympics.
Gay has admitted using the “Testosterone/DHEA Crème”, but not that it was done to enhance performance (which is strange due to its name). This cooperation and admission of use has earned him a 50% reduction in the standard two-year default length ban, down to one-year and also backdated to June 2013.
A USADA statement read: ‘USADA announced today that Tyson Gay of Winter Garden, Fla., an athlete in the sport of track & field, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a loss of results dating back to July 15, 2012 and a one-year suspension for his anti-doping rule violation.
‘Gay, 31, tested positive for the presence of an exogenous androgenic anabolic steroid and/or its metabolites which was confirmed by CIR (GC/C/IRMS) analysis, as the result of two out-of-competition and one in-competition urine samples collected by both USADA and the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF).
‘Since all three samples were tested in short succession prior to notification of the first positive result, the three adverse analytical findings, under the rules, are treated as one offense.
‘Upon receiving notification of his positive tests from USADA, Gay voluntarily removed himself from all competition prior to the 2013 World Championships and has not competed since that time.
‘On the same day that Gay was notified of his positive test result, he agreed to assist USADA in its investigation of the circumstances of his positive tests. Gay provided substantial assistance as outlined in the WADA Code including being interviewed on several occasions by USADA and providing all of the products he was using at the time of his positive tests.’
Gay’s sanction is subject to appeal by the IAAF and by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Gay has also since has taken the first step towards rebuilding his shattered reputation by making an immediate repayment of all the prize money and appearance fees he received since he started using a banned anabolic steroid in 2012, which totals some $500,000.
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Tim Wiese Has Been Turned from Germany Goalkeeper into Bodybuilder
Tim Wiese was in Germany's World Cup squad for the 2010 tournament. As Germany announce their squad for this time around, four years on, pictures of the German have emerged, and they show a fairly enormous transition.
The time he had currently: Tim Wiese has still contract in Hoffenheim (2016), but both sides agreed that the goalkeeper no longer participates in team training. The search for a new club ran unsuccessfully: Recently it was even rumors of a return to his former club Werder Bremen (where he played 2005-2012) where. But Werder Bremen manager Thomas gauge ruled brutally: "He has passed its peak!"
Wiese left football in January this year. since then, he has been bodybuilding:
It's a remarkable change, as the pictures show:
The German Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (DBFV) would allow him so easy for a competition - in the highest weight category "Men 5" - for Mucki fans over 100 kilo ...
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FOREIGN AGENTS BLAMED IN KENYA DOPING REPORT
A probe into allegations of widespread doping in Kenya sports has blamed lack of education, ignorance, and manipulation by foreign agents as the main reasons behind the serious incidences of drug use by Kenyan athletes.
The report says all sports bodies in Kenya are aware of anti-doping policies as propagated by the respective international federations and WADA, but none of them have elaborate programs targeting education and testing.
The government-appointed commission however did not uncover evidence of doping among its record-breaking distance runners. The commission completed its work earlier this month and has presented its findings to the Kenyan sports minister, Hassan Wario. The report said foreign agents have brought an upsurge in cases of athletes testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, including the blood-booster EPO.
The head of the taskforce, Professor Moni Wekesa, said we have left our athletes in the hands of foreigners and added that Athletics Kenya (AK) only organizes the national events, including the African games and Olympics and have given the foreign agents the free hand to manage the athletes in the Diamond League and other international competitions. Wekesa added these are the people who have the greater control on what to give the athletes and said any drugs which we found to have been used by the athletes was only through the influence of the foreign agents and remarked that these are the very sophisticated drugs only the agents know how to administer. The country had every reason to worry about the surge in drug use, according to Wekesa. Out of the total of 37 athletes suspended in the last two decades, 17 tested positive between January 2012 and June 2013. Wekesa added the report, yet to be made public, calls for all national sports associations to be mandated to comply with the policies of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Running great Kipchoge Keino, Kenya’s National Olympic Committee chief, said it is important that doping in Kenya should be stopped to ensure that no Kenyan athlete of a similar caliber to Tyson Gay or Asafa Powell is lured into using performance enhancing drugs. Keino added we need to educate our athletes. We need to sit down together and give them seminars so they can understand and said we have to show them in practical terms that this is not the right way.
According to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), eight Kenyans have been suspended in 2012. All the blood samples taken in Nairobi are flown to Johannesburg, Barcelona, or Paris for tests because the country does not have a single IAAF-certified drugs testing lab.
Before London Olympic Games, the German national television broadcaster ARD aired allegations that doping is widespread in Kenya. Initially, Kenyan officials were furious but they soon started to acknowledge the problem. Colm O’Connell, coach to Kenya’s Olympic champion and 800 meters world record holder David Rudisha, said we are in a very hazy situation about this whole drug situation with recent developments. O’Connell added that the Kenyan federation has to get on top of doping issues to maintain its credibility.
Gullible Media Fall for Hoax Linking Elliot Rodgers' Mass Murder to Creatine Use
The mass murder of six individuals by Elliot Rodgers has led to much speculation about the causes of such horrific violence. Some people have blamed mental illness while others have pointed to a gun culture and/or a misogynistic society as contributors to the tragedy. But some reporters have even blamed creatine for Rodgers' actions!
A headline titled “Virgin killer 'hooked' on bodybuilder pill'” written by Christopher Bucktin appeared in the print edition of the UK newspaper the Daily Mirror. It claimed that Rodgers went berserk after he started using the popular bodybuilding supplement creatine.
The Mirror alleged that Rodgers was a frequent contributor to the Bodybuilding.com forums and was considered “a serial killer in the making” by many forum members. But it was his creatine use that was said to have concerned a friend contacted by the Daily Mirror.
Emma Foster, a journalist for the Daily Mirror, had been browsing Facebook looking for friends of Rodgers. She stumbled upon a fake Facebook account for Rodgers and proceeded to contact the people on his friends list via private message.
This was how Foster came into contact with “Chris Akin”. Akin claimed to have met Rodgers at the Isla Vista GNC; they allegedly struck up a conversation and became friends.
“[Rodgers] would also tell me how he wanted to get into the bodybuilding lifestyle and started on creatine around four months ago,” Akins wrote. “I could notice the anger and changes everytime we spoke on skype.”
Foster seized upon the creatine link to the tragedy.
“It must have been hard to see the changes in him when he started taking creatine,” Foster wrote. “Did he ever get angry with you or was his anger directed at his issues with girls and fitting in? Did he take creatine every day?”
“Akin”, who really never knew Rodgers and was nothing more than an internet troll who posted on online bodybuilding forums under names like “ghettocandyman”, knew he had a gullible reporter on the line.
“Anyway as for creatine, I believe he took it everyday, he wouldn't answer my questions about his usage but as time went on you could totally tell the changes in his character,” Akin continued. “He wasn't very different at first, but then as time went on it seemed like he was getting into dark places emotionally.”
Despite such a ridiculous assertion that creatine could have contributed to such a tragedy, the story gained credibility as several other Murdoch-owned newspapers continued to report the “exclusive” story as fact. The NY Post, the Daily Mail, The Herald Sun, and news.com.au all ran with the story.
The internet story that launched the news cycle – “California shooting: British serial killer Elliot Rodgers was 'hooked on bodybuilding supplement pills” – was eventually taken down.
But this was not before various dietary supplement industry groups responded to the story and gave it even more credibility through their denials.
Dr. Adam Carey, the chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA), wanted to make it clear that creatine couldn't possibly have contributed to Rodgers' actions. After all, creatine is not an anabolic steroids and can not be linked to “roid rage”.
“It is crucial that people know that creatine is not an anabolic steroid and therefore has no association with what is commonly referred to nowadays as 'roid rage', as is implied in this very unfortunate scenario.”
Duffy MacKay, the senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), also wanted to emphasize that creatine is not an anabolic steroid.
“Creatine is not an anabolic steroid, nor is it a hormone,” MacKay wrote in a statement. “There is no reason to believe that using creatine would lead to psychological changes or side effects, to addiction or dependence, or to other safety risks.”
“We extend our sympathies to the families and friends who lost their loved ones, and we regret having to step into the story. We urge the press to more carefully check their facts and more cautiously rely on their sources.”
And we certainly encourage the ESSNA and the CRN to also check their facts when throwing anabolic steroids under the bus. After all, ESSNA and CRN have no greater credibility when suggesting that the story would have been entirely plausible if steroids were identified as the culprit instead of creatine.
The fact that this story gained any sort of traction in the media is a sad reflection of the many so-called “journalists” who are willing to suspend any and all critical journalistic skills in the quest for a sensationalistic angle on a breaking news story.
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Americanluxurymag.com. (May 28, 2014). Hooked on ‘Creatine’? Major News Outlets Fall for Elaborate Elliot Rodger Hoax. Retrieved from: http://www.americanluxurymag.com/2014/05/28/major-news-outlets-fall-for-elaborate-elliot-rodger-hoax/
Starling, S. (May 28, 2014). Serial killer's creatine use no link to 'roid rage'. Retrieved from www.nutraingredients.com/Consumer-Trends/Serial-killer-s-creatine-use-no-link-to-roid-rage/
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