RISING Russian gymnastic star Kristina Goryunova will not be able to compete in the 2012 Olympics after being suspended for a year by her national federation on Wednesday for using banned medication, local media reported.
Reports said that the samples taken from the 17-year-old at the national championships in November 2009, contained traces of the forbidden substance (one of furosemide analogues).
Goryunova justified the results by saying she was taking a food additive trying to lose weight, adding she did not know that it contained the banned substance. …
(via Full Twist)
Gymnastics Examiner reports it’s diuretic furosemide, the same drug taken by Daiane dos Santos and Do Thi Ngan Thuong.
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Shame!
masking agent?
I believe it’s included in some weight loss products. That seems the most likely.
That MIGHT be the reason she used it. But the reason it is banned, is because it is a masking agent for steroids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furosemide
If it happened in November 2009, the suspension should end in Nov. this year. Then how come she will not able to compete in the 2012 Olympics?
Right, Ap.
That must be the 3rd or 4th time you’ve told me. Eventually I’ll learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furosemide
My guess is that Russia has their own set of rules. With them hosting the next Winter Olympics, and so many Russians being caught before the Vancouver Games, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are cracking down with more severe rules.
According to IG, any ban longer than 6 months for a drug violation renders the athlete ineligible to compete in the next Olympics. It wasn’t clear if this was just a Russian rule.
It’s highly likely she had no idea she was taking a banned substance. Some “supplements” have been found to contain prescription drugs the makers conveniently left off the label on the bottle.
I would say there was no chance this was being used as a masking agent. If gymnasts were using steroids, even if most escaped undetected, in the 10 years of intensive drug testing following the Sydney Olympics, at least one would have been caught. This has not happened, which would lead an intelligent and rational person to conclude the problem was either nonexistent or vanishingly small.
I agree that this argues against the roids. We end up having to weight various inferences to create our Bayesian belief.
The idea that gymnasts are using steroids cannot be described as anything other than “belief” because there is absolutly no evidence to support it.
So if not from evidence, from where could this peristent idea be coming from? May I suggest jelousy and wishful thinking?
Male gymnasts have beautiful bodies because of youth, hard work and genetics, not taking shortcuts by using drugs.
I’m just sayin’.
They are young, genetically gifted and hard working, not taking short cuts by using drugs.
Oh, and one more thing.
Insinuating athletes are drug cheats on the basis of no evidence is not something to be taken lightly.
There isn’t even any inderict evidence that gymnasts have used anabolic steroids, such as associations with known drug cheats and back street chemists, missed or refused drug tests, or even the least little bit of credible gossip. Track cheats have been ratted out by their competitors. Never happened once in gymnastics as far as drugs are concerned.
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