Muhammed Lawal, former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, will not file an appeal with the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).

The champion tested positive for the anabolic steroid Drostanolone following a Jan. 7, 2012, win over Lorenz Larkin.

From Mmamania.com:

Drostanolone, also found in previous drug test results from Josh Barnett and Hermes Franca, is popular among athletes and competitive bodybuilders because its “anti-estrogenic properties make it a very effective cutting agent.”

But “King Mo” insists he “had no intent of taking any illegal substance.”

That’s according to his manager Mike Kogan, who told the MMA Hour (via MMA Fighting) that Lawal ingested “a supplement called S-Mass Lean Gainer by Rock Solid, which Lawal said he bought at a Max Muscle store in California and used only sporadically for ‘rehab stuff.’”

“When I went to Max Muscle, I figured you can’t buy steroids at a Max Muscle. It’s a chain store,” he said. “That’s like going to a grocery store and buying something illegal there. …I guess that’s the mistake I made. When I looked at the bottle, it just had a bunch of numbers on it. It had the ingredients. I didn’t see anything that looked illegal on the bottle, to be honest with you,” Lawal said.

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Doubts about the reliability of doping violations for clenbuterol in the past have been raised with an outbreak of positive tests for the anabolic steroid clenbuterol at this summer’s under-17 football World Cup in Mexico.

An astonishing 109 positive tests were recorded for the banned drug out of 208 urine samples taken during the tournament, according to a revelation by FIFA.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

The statistics are so extraordinary that both FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) have confirmed they will not be prosecuting any cases, blaming the failed tests on contaminated meat.

Mexican authorities admit the country has a major problem with farmers feeding clenbuterol to livestock to produce leaner, more valuable meat.

Based on what it describes as FIFA’s “compelling evidence”, Wada has also dropped its appeal against the decision of the Mexican football federation not to sanction five senior Mexican players who tested positive for clenbuterol at the Concacaf Gold Cup in June.

The news is expected to help Contador and Priestley who have been accused of using clenbuterol but have blamed contaminated meat. The ban of Priestley is due to end in February, though he remains banned from the Olympics for life under British Olympic Association rules.

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A man who was previously accused of being one of the biggest prescription drug dealers in Levy County has been arrested on a new, rarely used charge.

Larry Andy Meeks Jr., 29, of 9750 NW 60th Ave. in Chiefland, was charged with possession of anabolic steroids.

From Gainesville.com:

Meeks was initially arrested April 7 by the Levy County Sheriff’s Office Drug Task Force for two counts of sale with intent to distribute and two counts of possession with intent to sell prescription pills (oxycodone).

While executing a search warrant at Meeks’ home, task force members said they seized some drugs, weapons and ammunition, along with a large amount of cash and four vials of clear liquid and a syringe. The liquid substance was sent to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratory to be analyzed.

The prescription drug dealer was arrested again after the task force was notified that the liquid was Trenbolone enanthate, an anabolic steroid.

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Fourteen years after being guilty of using a performance-enhancing anabolic steroid, the past of Justin Charles still haunts him.

“It was wrong, and I can look back and say absolutely it was wrong,” Charles said.

From Heraldsun.com.au:

“My dad always said you can’t do any worse than tell the truth, and that no one was going to think worse of you if you told the truth and, oh God, that’s put me in good stead. If you’re lying, then you’ve got to start to defend the indefensible, and I couldn’t do it.

“It was the best thing I did after I made a real bad decision.”

Then came the Tigers.

“Richmond were awesome. Leon Daphne (then president), gee, talk about great people,” he said.

“I remember going into a meeting and telling everybody and it was void of sound. You know, as we’re talking I’m back there now. Wow. It was just … quiet.

“They were shocked. It’s maybe why I even thought I’d get away with it, because I’d be the last person they’d think, because of my work ethic.

“I did everything for my teammates and this is why … this was the most selfish thing you could ever do.”

The former admitted that he had six injections of boldenone in the bathroom of his parents’ home in the pre-season of ‘97.

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Rafael Palmeiro is sticking to his story that he did nothing wrong when he tested positive for an anabolic steroid five years ago.

The disgraced baseball slugger continues to maintain that he took a tainted shot of vitamin B12.

From Dallasnews.com:

Palmeiro played his final major league game Aug. 30, 2005. He finished his 20-year career with 569 home runs and 3,020 hits, numbers similar to those of Hall of Famers Frank Robinson and Eddie Murray.

Will the voters from Baseball Writers Association of America remember those statistics when they receive the ballots in late November? Or will they give more significance to Aug. 1, 2005, the day Major League Baseball suspended Palmeiro for 10 games after he tested positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid?

“I’d hope voters would look at my body of work over my career and maybe put more emphasis on that,” Palmeiro said. “That one steroid incident is unfortunately all people remember. They don’t remember the other 19 years that I played the game the right way.”

We have already seen the impact the implication of steroids has had on Mark McGwire, who received only 23.7 percent of the Hall of Fame votes last year, his fourth year on the ballot. Players need 75 percent of the vote to be inducted.

The former Ranger had a word about his test during a rare interview recently while he watched his son play for the McKinney Marshals in a Texas Collegiate League game.

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The champion weightlifter from England, Denis Catana, has been handed over a suspension of two years after he was found abusing anabolic steroids, according to a confirmation by UK Anti-Doping.

Catana won the 2010 national 94kg title but tested positive for Metenolone ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

From News.BBC.co.uk:

Catana claimed that Metenolone, an anabolic steroid associated with the treatment of some forms of anaemia and osteoporosis, had found its way into his body inadvertently through a supplement he had consumed, several of which were bought in Moldova.

UK Anti-Doping’s director of operations, Nicole Sapstead, said: “Mr Catana was tested as part of UK Anti-Doping’s pre-Commonwealth Games testing programme.

“This case shows the importance of our major event programme, and our commitment to stopping athletes who dope competing on the world stage.

“We will continue to work tirelessly to protect the rights of clean athletes in the run up to London 2012 and beyond.”

The UK Anti-Doping organisation was formed in 2009, after several delays, to combat doping in British elite sport.

The 25-year-old has been banned provisionally since 21 September 2010, a suspension that will last until 20 September 2012, but British Olympic Association rules now ban him from Team GB for life.

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John Steffensen, the Commonwealth 400m champion from Sydney, has disassociated ways with the controversial coach Larry Wade in the lead-up to his first international race of the Olympic year.

The coach proved to be a contentious choice in the first place given that the former US hurdler served a ban for two years for using 19-norandrosterone, an anabolic steroid.

From Foxsports.com.au:

The sudden urge to purge comes on the eve of Steffensen’s 400m race in the adidas Classic in Carson, California, on May 18.

And on May 19 another famous - some would say infamous - sprints coach, Trevor Graham, will go on trial for perjury in a San Francisco court.

Graham coached Sydney Olympic 100m and 200m winner Marion Jones, who is currently in jail after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs.

US authorities will allege that Graham lied about knowing, much less having dealings with, Texas-based former Mexican discus thrower Angel Heredia, a self-confessed dealer in performance-enhancing drugs.

And Heredia has revealed enough evidence, published in The New York Times, to indicate that the collateral damage will spread from Graham’s group to other coaches and athletes, allegedly including John Smith’s HSI coaching group for which Larry Wade, the squad’s one-time star 110m hurdler and a medal favourite for the Olympic Games in Athens, was an assistant coach.

Chris Giannopoulos of IMG, the manager for Steffensen, confirmed the split with the coach and remarked that several coaching options were being assessed.

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A positive test marked the fourth doping incident at the Delhi CWG Games 2010 and the third by an athlete from Nigeria. Folashade Abugan, the Nigerian runner, tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was stripped of her 400m and 4×400m silver medals.

Abugan returned an adverse analytical finding from a test after competing in the women’s 400-meter final, according to a statement issued by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

From Pattayadailynews.com:

“Ms Abugan’s ‘A’ sample was found to demonstrate findings consistent with an exogenous origin of endogenous steroids. The delta values indicate an application of testosterone prohormone, which is prohibited under the current WADA Prohibited List S1 Anabolic Agents,” the statement read. Abugan admitted her guilt after refusing to have her B sample tested.

“Ms Abugan wrote to the CGF waiving her rights to have her ‘B’ sample analysed and a hearing, as provided for within the CGF Anti-Doping Standard (ADS). She also admitted liability,” the CGF statement said.

The Federation Court since concluded that Abugan had committed a violation of anti-doping rules and was disqualified from all events that has participated in during the Games, with results nullified.

“This includes her silver medal in the women’s 400 metres. As she was also a member of her country’s second placed 4×400 metre relay team, that result is also nullified,” the CGF said.

Before Abugan’s name broke out, Nigeria’s Osayomi Oludamola and Samuel Okon and India’s Rani Yadav tested positive for banned substances.

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Anabolic steroids are used by sportsmen, especially bodybuilders and strength athletes, to build solid muscles in short time. They are synthetic hormones capable of promoting the processes of protein retention and tissue growth.

But use of steroids can result in side effects when they are abused or of a low quality and these side effects may vary from depression to psychological changes and from increased aggression to infertility.

From Topics.nytimes.com:

Steroids came to weight lifting in Russia during the 1950s, and to America by 1960. By the end of the decade, other elite athletes had discovered the drugs. For nearly two decades, starting in the late 1960s, East German women dominated the international sports stage, aided by an organized system of anabolic steroid use. Despite strong testing procedures, steroid-related scandal has continued to follow the Olympic Games, the Tour de France and major professional sports.

Not all revelations of steroid use are accompanied by outrage. An admitted former user of steroids, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is governor of California. Professional wrestling, where steroid use has been widely documented, has been a ratings leader on cable television for years.

Like every other thing in this world, steroids can have bad effects but only when abused and the best way out is using them under medical guidance and for legal purposes.

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The use of anabolic steroids by patients suffering kidney diseases may prove to be effective to increase lean muscle mass besides minimizing the fatigue level to a significant extent, as per a new study.

Kidney disease patients tend to experience malnutrition and an accompanying loss of muscle mass and these side effects have been associated in the past with an increased mortality.

From Bio-Medicine.Org:

A team of University of California San Francisco researchers, led by Kirsten L. Johansen, M.D., UCSF assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology & biostatistics, studied a group of patients who were receiving dialysis and were suffering from malnutrition.

In a randomized, double blind trial, 29 patients were given either the anabolic steroid nandrolone decanote or a placebo (dummy medication) for a six-month period. All of the patients were receiving dialysis treatments at San Francisco General Hospital. At the end of the trial, patients receiving the anabolic steroid gained an average of 5.7 pounds more lean body mass than the patients who got the placebo. Also, the patients who received the steroid reported less fatigue and scored better on physical performance tests. The researchers’ results are published in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Hemodialysis, the most common form of dialysis in the United States, is a medical procedure employed when a patient’s kidneys cannot properly clean the blood of toxins and waste products. A patient’s blood is removed from the body via a tube inserted in a vein, filtered by a dialysis machine, and then replaced. Typically, this process must be repeated three times a week and takes three to four hours. In some cases, dialysis is considered a “bridge” while the patient is awaiting a kidney transplant - which can be up to a three year wait in the US.

This study was supported by grants from the National Center for Research Resources, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the Bay Area Nutrition Center.

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