In India, the doping scandal involving school children is threatening to take shocking proportions with schools from Punjab and Maharashtra topping the list of offenders.

Eleven children - from boxing, wrestling, and weightlifting - tested positive for steroids and diuretics during the 57th National School Games, which concluded recently in New Delhi, according to NationalAnti-Doping Agency .

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

While the three wrestlers tested positive for diuretic furosemide (a substance used to mask the presence of prohibited substances in the body), the weightlifters’ samples contained the steroid stanozolol THC (found in marijuana). The boxers tested positive for a cocktail of banned drugs - stanozolol THC (marijuana), methylhexaneamine and nandrolone.

Those caught for doping in wrestling are from schools in Maharashtra, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, while in weightlifting the positive cases came from the students of Delhi and Punjab schools. In boxing, the positive samples were found in students from Maharashtra, Manipur and Punjab.

“This has become a very serious matter. That 14 per cent of the samples have returned positive is a matter of shame for the schools and officials. It is much higher than the national average of 4 per cent,” NADA director general Rahul Bhatnagar told TOI.

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The owner of a Dixwell Avenue supplement store was recently arrested in front of the store after he was found to be in possession of steroids, hypodermic needles, and Oxycontin.

Raymond O’Connell, 30, of Victoria Lane, Stratford was arrested by the police in front of his store, Supplement King at 1423 Dixwell Ave.

From Articles.courant.com:

The owner of a Dixwell Avenue supplement store was arrested in front of the establishment early Wednesday morning after police said they found him to be in possession of steroids, hypodermic needles and Oxycontin.

Raymond O’Connell, 30, of Victoria Lane, Stratford, was parked in front of his store, Supplement King at 1423 Dixwell Ave., around 1 a.m. when police spotted him. Officers said they were immediately suspicious of the vehicle because an armed robbery had occurred at the store in March.

Officers found 3.5 grams of Oxycontin, a small quantity of Suboxane (an opiate medication), seven 50 mg Stanozolol pills (anabolic steroids), hypodermic needles, and $2,919 cash.

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Two top athletes from India, Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu, have been suspended and face the prospect of a two-year ban.

Both Kaur and Murmu flunked an out-of-competition dope test after their samples were taken out of competition at NIS Patiala on May 25.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Mandeep’s ‘B’ sample had adverse analytical findings for epimethandiol, metabolites of methandienone and stanozolol while Juana’s had epimethandiol and metabolites of methandienone.

The duo have been provisionally suspended by Athletics Federation of India till the hearing by a NADA panel is completed. The NADA panel will hand the punishment after the hearing.

Since it was the first dope offence for the two athletes, their punishment would range from a warning to a two-year ban.

AFI sources said that the two athletes have told the officials that their positive result could be due to food supplements they had taken from outside the NIS where they had been training.

The ‘B’ samples of both the athletes returned positive for anabolic steroids in the tests conducted by International Association of Athletics Federations.

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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 governing world body of athletics will not be investigating claims and confessions of sabotage and cover-ups disclosed in autobiography of Ben Johnson since the body is not obliged to take any action under its own statue of limitations.

The disgraced Seoul Olympics 100m champion, Johnson, claimed that his drink was spiked with Stanozolol, the banned steroid, just before he was about to leave for a urine test after his Olympic win.

From Dailytelegraph.com.au:

Johnson exclusively told The Daily Telegraph that he had obtained a taped confession from the “mystery man” who drank beer with him in the restricted zone in the Olympic doping control area while Johnson waited to provide a urine sample for drug testers after setting another world record in Seoul.

That man is allegedly former US footballer and now diamond dealer Andre Jackson - a “family friend” of American runner-up Carl Lewis who directly benefited from the Canadian’s disqualification.

Johnson alleges Jackson confessed to him and business associate Di-anne Hudson, a Toronto lawyer, that Jackson spiked Johnson’s drinks with the steroid Stanozolol - and not for the first time. There is no suggestion Lewis ever knew of the plan.

Johnson claims there was enough Stanozolol in his sample “to kill a cow” but he denies using that drug. He does, however, admit to having used an obscure East German designer steroid called Furazobol up until six weeks before the Games.

It is worth noting here that the International Association of Athletics Federations has a self-imposed statute of limitations for eight years in doping cases and this doping incident cannot be investigated as Seoul games ended 21 years ago.

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