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The secret steroid.
In what may become one of the biggest drug scandals in sporting history, samples given by athletes worldwide, including at the recent world championships in Paris, are to be re-tested for the presence of a new steroid that was designed to evade the testing regime
ATHLETES have been forbidden from using artificial stimulants since the 1920s, and since the 1970s they have had to give urine samples to show they are not pumping up their muscles by injecting anabolic steroids--a class of synthetic drugs that promote tissue growth. But it now appears that runners and jumpers in several countries have been using a hitherto unknown steroid, tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which is believed to have been designed specifically to evade the sporting authorities' doping tests. On Wednesday October 22nd, America's governing body for athletics, the USA Track & Field (USATF) confirmed reports that four American athletes, as yet unnamed, had tested…
- THG now prohibited in Thailand.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 20, 2003 700+ words
...University, has announced that THG substance is now on the prohibited...the wake of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) decision that THG is a banned substance. He said...helps locate the existence of THG in the human body. "Thailand...
- Following the THG doping trail.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) July 28, 2004 700+ words
...Wednesday, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials pulled back the curtain on THG. They revealed how the...with hydrogen, creating THG. To determine just how...steroid was, the anti-doping agency sent fresh samples to...about the metabolism of THG. Researchers in Minnesota...
- British star tests positive for THG.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 22, 2003 700+ words
...Chambers' positive test. "The THG tests are being dealt with by...about any individual case." THG is at the heart of a major doping...history, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced last Thursday that...athletes tested positive for THG at the U.S. track championships...
- Past drug tests may be checked for THG.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 24, 2003 700+ words
...tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a previously...United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in June...government's anti-doping agency - is also wary of...scientific data on THG to arrive in our...areas surrounding THG be cleared up and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ...
- Pound: THG already a 'dinosaur drug'.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 14, 2003 700+ words
...Turkish Probe) World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Chairman Dick Pound has called the new designer steroid THG a "dinosaur drug" which has...s King's College. "It (THG) is a dinosaur drug." The...previously undetectable steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrione) had...
- Science could prove difficult in pursuit of THG's effects.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Almond, Elliott Emmons, Mark April 12, 2004 700+ words
...before the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency this week but perhaps...Bonds: What exactly is THG? What has been forcefully...from coming down hard on THG users. It underscores...steroids. The World Anti-Doping Agency, which oversees Olympic...molecular structure to THG. Gestrinone is not ...
- Chambers starts disciplinary hearing over use of designer steroid THG.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 19, 2004 700+ words
...expected to question whether THG constitutes a banned substance...body of athletics, maintains THG is a performance-enhancing...for "related substances." THG has since been added to the...adopted by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic...
- No positive cases in THG testing in tennis.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 15, 2003 700+ words
...positive findings for the steroid THG, the International Tennis Federation...in its weekly news bulletin. THG, or tetrahydrogestrinone...substance to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. At least five track &...players have tested positive for THG. Two positives for THG were...
- No hiding place for cheats as IOC plan new THG tests.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire November 13, 2003 700+ words
...the use ofthe designer steroid THG was not widespread. "We may...samples confirmed as positive for THG. The International Association...hearing before the US Anti-Doping Agency prior to a possible two-year...confirmed that a positive test for THG was supported by the results...
- THG testing to begin at Rugby World Cup.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 23, 2003 700+ words
...Testing for the designer steroid THG will begin next week at the...organizers said Thursday. THG, or tetrahrydogestrinone...sports after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency revealed several unidentified...Ricketts confirmed that testing for THG would start early next week...
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