Bobby-Gaye Wilkins, the Jamaican 400m runner, has been banned for two years after she was found using performance enhancing drugs by the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association.

According to Warren Blake of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association, Wilkins will be barred from competition until April 2012.

From Guardian.co.uk:

The Jamaican 400m runner Bobby-Gaye Wilkins has been banned for two years for using a performance-enhancing substance.

Warren Blake of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association says the athlete will be barred from competition until April 2012.

Wilkins tested positive for the banned substance andranine at the world indoor championships in Doha, Qatar, in March.

She was a member of the Jamaican 4×400m relay team who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Wilkins won the Olympic bronze in 4×400m relay team.

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Barry Bonds tested positive for anabolic steroids three times in 2000 and 2001, as per hundreds of documents filed by the government.

The prosecutors said that Bonds also tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003, which was confirmed by a urine test supplied by Bonds.

From Espnstar.com:

Bonds is scheduled to be tried on 10 counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice related to his BALCO grand jury testimony.

Bonds testified to a federal grand jury in 2003 that he used the “cream” and the “clear” but did not know that they were performance-enhancing drugs. The urine samples could prove the existence of other steroids in his body.

During testimony, Bonds said he never took steroids. The government alleges that Bonds lied under oath and that at least two of his positive tests stemmed from injections of steroids.

Bonds steadfastly denied during his testimony that he has been injected by his former personal trainer, Greg Anderson.

Bonds will be arraigned Thursday, after which his lawyers will be looking to exclude much of the government’s evidence. In a motion filed last week, Bonds’ attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who is presiding over the perjury case, to suppress several pieces of evidence, including those 2003 urine samples.

According to the New York Times, Bonds provided samples that did not test positive under baseball drug testing program but those samples, when tested again by federal authorities after they seized them in a 2004 raid, revealed positive drug results.

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A weightlifter from India, Monika Devi, has been tested positive for steroids that led to withdrawal of her participation from the Beijing Games.

The only weight lifter from the Indian contingent tested positive only a few hours before her scheduled departure to Beijing.

From Espnstar.com:

The Manipuri lifter, who was to compete in the 69 kg category, was selected to the squad amidst allegations of bribery.

In the pre-Olympic trial conducted by Indian Weightlifting Federation in July this year, P Sailja of Andhra Pradesh had performed better than Monika but the latter was chosen ahead of her.

However, earlier in April this year, Monica had done better in the Asian Championship in Japan.

Perhaps, the silver lining in the latest doping scandal to hit India is that the athlete was not disgraced in front of the world, and was withdrawn before the Games.

This doping incident has once again revealed the ever-popular link of professional sportsmen with anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

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A federal grand injury has indicated ex-US baseball star Roger Clemens as he allegedly lied on the use of performance enhancing drugs before the Congress.

If he is convicted of all charges, Clemens could face up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5m (£960,000) fine.

From BBC.co.uk:

Mr Clemens said under oath in 2008 that Brian McNamee, his former trainer, had lied before the committee about having given the former baseball star performance-enhancing drugs.

“I couldn’t tell you the first thing about it [human growth hormone],” Mr Clemens testified in 2008. “I never used steroids. Never performance-enhancing steroids.”

But Mr McNamee said he had injected Mr Clemens more than a dozen times in three years.

Earl Ward, one of Mr McNamee’s attorneys, called the indictment “vindication”.

In a statement on the micro-blogging website Twitter, Mr Clemens recently wrote: “I never took HGH [human growth hormone] or steroids. And I did not lie to Congress.”

The indictment alleged that Clemens obstructed a congressional enquiry while denying making use of substances while under oath in the year 2008.

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The federal grand jury that is holding investigations in case of Roger Clemens for perjury testified David Segui, who became the latest former major leaguer to testify in Clemens’ case.

When asked to comment about his testimony by the media, Segui declined to have a word while leaving the room of grand jury on the third floor of the federal courthouse in the shadow of the Capitol.

From NYdailynews.com:

Segui, whose 15-season Major League Baseball career included parts of two seasons with the Mets, is the latest former ballplayer dragged into the Clemens investigation. Self-proclaimed steroid guru Jose Canseco appeared before the grand jury on June 3 and told reporters afterward that he testified that he had no evidence that Clemens had used performance-enhancing drugs. Former Yankee pitcher Jason Grimsley met with Butler and other investigators in August of 2009, and former pitcher Pedro Borbon Jr. has also been interviewed by investigators involved in the case.

Brian McNamee, former trainer of Clemens, remarked before former Sen. George Mitchell that he injected steroids and HGH a minimum of 16 times to Roger Clemens, seven-time Cy Young Award winner, a fact that was vehemently denied by Clemens.

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In the recent times, the spirit and fairness in baseball has been jolted by many times. Some of the biggest names in the world of baseball have been accused and confessed to use of steroids or other performance enhancing drugs.

One of the most impacting testimonials is the fact Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were two of the players on baseball’s list of nearly 100 players who tested positive for banned substances in the year 2003, as per a report in THE TIMES.

From NYTimes.com:

The great Cal Ripken retired before steroid testing. After the disclosure about A-Rod’s failed test, Ripken announced that he wanted to have a talk with Rodriguez. Good for Ripken to step forward. But where was he when a loud and respected voice was needed to push the players union into testing?

Where does baseball go from here?

Hank Aaron has proposed a formula of putting asterisks on certain records to reflect the time in which they were accomplished. With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge. Amphetamines, red juice, concoctions and whatever else preceded steroids.

One thing is for sure, baseball fans hope that future doping disclosures do not name their favorite players. However, players need to stop admonishing news media and fans before that.

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The game of baseball has been kept under dark clouds after Mark McGwire made a belated confession of steroid use amidst crocodile tears and disclaimers. But Bud Selig thinks that the baseball steroid era is now over, a fact suggested by test results.

Though McGwire’s confession was not able to impress the die-hard baseball fans, it saved officials and team members by putting an end to the baseball’s era of performance-enhancing drugs to offer a new start for the game.

From Bostonherald.com:

That’s pretty much what Bud Selig said after the man who wouldn’t talk about the past to Congress finally spoke about it to Bob Costas. On the day of McGwire’s mea culpa, Selig said in a statement that in 2010, the use of steroids and amphetamines in baseball is “virtually nonexistent, as our testing results have shown.”

Two things: Either the commissioner of Major League Baseball pays no attention to the nonstop cat-and-mouse game still taking place between the International Olympic Committee and its world-class athletes, or he’s back to his old car-selling ways again.

If he ever really left them.

Otherwise, he would not have followed with this: “The so-called steroid era — a reference that is resented by the many players who played in that era and never touched the substances — is clearly a thing of the past, and Mark’s admission today is another step in the right direction.”

The steroid era might be a thing of the past in baseball. But performance-enhancing drugs are an ever-evolving industry, as the IOC and its testing agents long ago discovered. Simply stated, the cycle goes as follows: You design a testing program to detect all known performance-enhancing drugs. They design a new drug that escapes that detection. After a while, you get wise, develop even more encompassing detection. They take your test, and build a new PED that avoids that detection.

Selig remarked that the use of steroids and amphetamines is no more prevalent in the world of baseball.

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