The competitive results of Eddy Hellebuyck, an athlete in the sport of Track & Field, from October 1, 2001 through January 30, 2004 have been invalidated by an independent, three-member American Arbitration Association (AAA) panel, according to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

The 51-year-old Hellebuyck tested positive for synthetic erythropoietin (EPO) in 2004 and received a suspension of two years. Hellebuyck denied he had ever intentionally used EPO at the time of his initial suspension. The athlete’s own public admissions that he made his use of performance enhancing drugs dated back to 2001 that directly contradicts the testimony he gave during his original anti-doping hearing. The independent AAA panel, based on this new evidence, ruled that all previous competitive results dating back to October 2001 should also be disqualified.

The track and field athlete took the position that the statute of limitations prevented his past competitive results from being disqualified but the AAA panel said, “We are pleased the Panel has upheld the fundamental principle of fairness for clean athletes,” said USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart. “This decision sends a clear message that you can’t use performance enhancing drugs to cheat, conceal your violations, and when the truth is revealed, attempt to hide behind the statute of limitations.”

USADA is dedicated to preserving the integrity of sport through research initiatives and educational programs and responsible for the testing and results management process for athletes in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement.

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South African cyclist David George, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong, has admitted to making use of the blood-boosting drug EPO and said the sport had given him experiences “no person or young athlete should have to go through.” “I fully understand the consequences of my admission and will bear the results of this,” George said.

On August 29, the former US Postal Service rider failed an out-of-competition doping test, according to the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport. George was provisionally suspended by Cycling South Africa ahead of an independent tribunal and is now facing a ban of two years.

George rendered an apology to his sponsors but the backer of his current 360Life team, Nedbank, said it was immediately withdrawing its sponsorship.

“Nedbank has a zero tolerance towards the use of any banned substances or performance enhancing drugs and does not condone or support such use in any sport,” the South African bank said.

David George cycled on the disgraced Lance Armstrong’s US Postal team in 1999 and 2000 and was one of the top cyclists of South Africa and won the South African time trial championships five times and road race championships in 2003.

“Cycling, as you know, has been a confusing space, and although it has given me incredible moments it has also given me experiences that no person or young athlete should have to go through,” George said.

“His biological passport indicated suspicious activity and that triggered a targeted test for EPO,” SAIDS chief executive Khalid Galant said earlier Tuesday, announcing the positive test. “A subsequent urine test came back positive for the banned EPO drug.”

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London’s Sunday Times is considering suing seven-time Tour de France winner and disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong over a libel case he brought against the newspaper over doping allegations that resulted in a costly payout.

The potential legal action is in the wake of a report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that said it had uncovered “overwhelming evidence” that Armstrong had participated in and helped run the doping program of the U.S. Postal Service cycling team.

A spokeswoman for the Sunday Times confirmed the newspaper is “considering taking action to recover money spent on a libel case Armstrong brought and to pursue him for fraud.” The libel case pertains to a 004 Sunday Times article which referenced a 2003 book, “L.A. Confidentiel — Les Secrets de Lance Armstrong.” In 2006, the newspaper settled with Armstrong after the High Court ruled the article would be interpreted as meaning Armstrong was a “fraud, a cheat and a liar,” the UK Press Gazette, an industry journal, reported at the time.

Armstrong was part of “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen,” according to the USADA report released recently with more than 1,000 pages of evidence in which 26 witnesses testified to the USADA as part of its investigation into doping by Armstrong and other riders on the team.

Lance Armstrong has consistently denied doping accusations but stopped contesting the allegations after which he has banned for life and stripped of all his titles by USADA, a decision that was endorsed later by the governing body of cycling, UCI.

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Jamie Staff, Olympic gold medalist and USA cycling coach, says he believes Lance Armstrong has been made a scapegoat over using performance enhancing drugs in cycling.

Armstrong was labeled a “serial” cheat by the United States Anti-Doping Agency in their recent report on the cyclist and was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the sport’s governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI). UCI president Pat McQuaid said: “Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. He deserves to be forgotten.”

Jamie Staff remarked, “”A lot of people have done it, probably everyone in his generation. “If you wanted to finish the course you had to jump on board.”

Staff said Armstrong has been kind of a scapegoat really as he was the most successful and said it was just a generation or a few generations who chose to take drugs to basically enable them to recover quicker. “What we’re hearing from a lot of people speaking up about it, they just feel so relieved to get that burden off their shoulders. They don’t care what results get taken away, they just don’t want to hold that in any more,” Staff remarked.

Ashford-born Staff, who won team sprint gold in Beijing alongside Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny and moved to track cycling after a highly successful career in BMX, said the recent revelations over doping admissions of fellow cyclists point to widespread abuse within the sport.

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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency while releasing more than 1,000 pages of evidence in the Lance Armstrong doping case said the cyclist was part of “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”

The agency remarked evidence against the disgraced cyclist and the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored cycling team encompasses “direct documentary evidence including financial payments, e-mails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance-enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong.”

“The USPS Team doping conspiracy was professionally designed to groom and pressure athletes to use dangerous drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately gain an unfair competitive advantage through superior doping practices,” the agency said.

Eleven riders came forward for acknowledging their use of banned performance enhancing drugs while being a part of the team and this includes George Hincapie, Armstrong’s close teammate during his winning Tour de France runs, and others include Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Tyler Hamilton, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters, and David Zabriskie.

USADA remarked the riders would receive various punishments, including suspensions and disqualifications. However, the attorney of Lance Armstrong, Tim Herman, said USADA report is “a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations, based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories.”

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Clomid, also known as Clomiphene citrate and LiquiClom, would be a good choice for you if you are looking forward to use a potent antiestrogen that has the ability to prevent or reduce side effects of estrogens with just three or four weeks of use.

The substance name of Clomid is 2-[p-(2-chloro-1,2-diphenylvinyl)phenoxy] triethylamine citrate (1:1) and its molecular formula of C₃₂H₃₆ClNO₈ (citrate) or C₂₆H₂₈ClNO. It has the molecular weight of 598.09 g/mol at the base and it is a variety of geometrical isomers [cis (zuclomiphene) and trans (enclomiphene)] such as of abut 30-50 % of the cis-isomer. The SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator) is commonly used by sportsmen on harsh and aromatizable anabolic steroids & performance enhancing drugs as part of post cycle therapy to stay away from estrogenic side effects like oily skin, acne, gynecomastia, bloating, and fluid retention besides enhancing bio-availability of bulking cycle steroids or cutting cycle steroids.

The use of Clomid is also associated with revitalized luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone levels and for treating polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) related infertility or cases of unexplained infertility or when expensive and invasive fertility treatments. This wonder drug is useful to aid conception and boost fertility by stimulating an increase in the levels of hormones that help the growth and release of a mature egg (ovulation).

Clomid may be used for a period of three weeks after Deca Durabolin, for a period of three weeks after using Sustanon 250, for a period of two weeks after using testosterone enanthate, for a period of three weeks after Trenbolone, 17-21 weeks after using Equipoise, 4-8 weeks after using Dianabol, 8-12 weeks after using Winstrol, and 3 weeks after using testosterone propionate.

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If you are looking for a legal anabolic steroid that can stimulate protein synthesis and muscle growth five times more than testosterone, Parabolan or trenbolone cyclohexylmethylcarbonate is an excellent choice for you.

The chemical name of Parabolan is 17beta-Hydroxyestra-4, 9, 11-trien-3-one and its molecular formula is C₂₀H₂₄₂O. It has an active life of 5-7 days and can be detected for 4-5 weeks. The fast acting and long lasting anabolic steroid and performance enhancing drug is considered as one of the best fat and weight loss drugs and used by sportsmen during bulking as well as cutting cycles. Parabolan use is associated with no water retention or storage of extra fat in subcutaneous tissues and lean hard muscles and a rapid gain in terms of body strength and muscle mass. In addition to this, the performance enhancing drug is also useful in promoting the process of protein conversion into muscles and avoiding possible over-training symptoms.

This anabolic androgenic steroid is a progestin and binds strongly to the female hormone progesterone and leads to a dramatic increase in the satellite cells that are beneficial for repairing damage muscle tissue and improving regenerative properties of muscle tissues via inhibition of protein mobilization and muscle breakdown in gluconeogenesis that further promotes extra skeletal muscle gains leading to dramatic physical strength gains.

Parabolan use is not recommended to those suffering from health problems like testicular atrophy, testicular cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, liver damage, kidney damage, stroke, high blood pressure, and respiratory problems or girls and women, especially pregnant or breastfeeding women or women who may get pregnant while using the drug.

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If you want to join the world of body building or want to gain solid muscles and body strength while attaining a lean appearance, Equipoise or Boldenone would be the best choice for you. Originally developed as a veterinary anabolic steroid, this drug soon became one of the most popular body building drugs that help sportsmen achieve a completely new level of performance and aggression with just six to eight weeks of use.

The chemical formula of Equipoise is C₁₉H₂₆Oand its chemical name is 1,4-androstadiene-3-one,1 7b-ol) and this performance enhancing drug can be detected over a period of four to five months and has an active life of nearly 14-16 days. It has the chemical structure of 1,4-androstadiene-3-one,17b-o and provides an exceptional anabolic/androgenic ratio of 100:50.

Use of this extremely potent anabolic steroid is associated with very low levels of aromatization and water retention and sportsmen admire this drug for its benefits as a perfect pre-contest drug. Equipoise is as anabolic as testosterone and is half androgenic as testosterone and stimulates an increase in appetite and the ability to eat more food while making efforts to gain weight in the off-season. Use of this anabolic product is also associated with pronounced strength and muscle mass gains besides an increase in count of red blood cells (production of erythrocytes). Equipoise usage is also related with moderate reductions of HPTA function and promotion of solid, meaty muscle fiber and greater “pumps” during intense workouts. Boldenone is not hepatoxic to any serious extent and therefore can be used for long periods of time during extensive cycles.

A diet high in protein and calories, along with a proper training regimen and proper use of Equipoise can do wonders to the success, performance, appearance, and career of sportsmen and fitness-conscious individuals.

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Amateur and professional sportsmen on anabolic steroids trust Letrozole to stay away estrogenic side effects such as oily skin, acne, gynecomastia, and bloating. Also known as Femara, this non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor helps sportsmen reap the benefits of steroids during an anabolic steroid cycle.

This drug is prescribed globally to treat patients with hormonally responsive breast cancer after surgery. It is equally useful to stimulate metabolic rate of the body and promote the process of fat burning. Use of this third-generation selective oral aromatase inhibitor is also associated with reducing levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol and promotion in the level of spermatogenesis in male patients suffering from non-obstructive azoospermia. Letrozole is also admired for treating endometriosis and promoting dramatic improvements in terms of growth hormone, cortisol, SHBG, hepatic production of binding proteins, HDL, and growth and development of sexual characteristics besides promoting healthy immune function, healthy cholesterol levels, joint health, cognitive function, and muscle growth.

Use of Letrozole is also associated with significant reductions or elimination of estrogenic side effects such as oily skin, gynecomastia, and fluid retention and the treatment of certain types of breast cancer (such as hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer) in women after menopause or to prevent the cancer from making a return. The aromatase inhibitor helps in slowing or reversing the growth of these breast cancers by reducing the amount of estrogens in the body. Its potency can be measured from the fact that a single tablet of 2.5 mg Letrozole is good enough to inhibit side effects of estrogens by as much as 80 percent.

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Clomid, also known as Clomiphene citrate and LiquiClom, is one of the most popular antiestrogens among sportsmen looking for a highly effective and safe drug to reduce or prevent estrogenic side effects immediately before the end or at the end of an anabolic steroid cycle.

One of the biggest advantages associated with this selective estrogen receptor modulator is that it has the unique potential of restoring the natural production of hormones such as testosterone. In addition to this, Clomid can also revitalize the luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone levels besides enhancing bioavailability of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs. Medically indicated to women with an inability to conceive on their own and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) related infertility or cases of unexplained infertility, the antiestrogen is also indicated for hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis function test, low sperm count, male infertility, and study of the function of the ovaries.

Use of this drug is associated with the stimulation of more gonadotropin discharge from the pituitary to increase Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and even enhancing the count and fertility of male sperm to some extent. The commonly-followed dose of Clomid is 50 mg per day for a period of five weeks or as per medical advice and this use should not be made by those suffering from severe health complications like high blood pressure, stroke, kidney damage, liver damage, prostate cancer, breast cancer, or testicular cancer or those experiencing abnormal vaginal bleeding of unknown cause, suffering from fibroid tumors of the uterus.

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