First HGH Positive in Sports

[nate225]

From PLing Watch: http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/14616

Submitted by Staff on February 25, 2010 - 7:58am.

On Monday, a British Rugby player was suspended as a result of a positive drug test for HGH. The positive is the first in sports.

WADA Director, David Howman: "It shows the people who say that H.G.H. cannot be detected that it can. The sports people who said it can’t be detected are fooling themselves."

Andy Parkinson, head of the UK Anti-Doping Agency: "It is the world-first analytical positive for H.G.H., a substance that has previously gone undetected because it leaves the system fairly quickly after administration."

[Grover]

Be interesting to see how much he was taking and its effects

[nate225]

Be interesting to see how much he was taking and its effects

LMAO - it doesn't usually work that way Grover!

Expect to see a remorseful & heartfelt apology or the usual "I took a dodgy supplement" line, as the British WADA affiliate & Rugby officials will be deciding his sanction. I'm pretty sure the powers that be don't take too kindly to positive testing athletes going out and extolling the virtues of PEDs! :naughty:

[nate225]

Looks like it was a leaguey, and sanction imposed 2 years:

UK Anti-Doping have hailed Terry Newton's positive test for human growth hormone as a major breakthrough.

The former Great Britain rugby league forward is the first sports star in the world to have hGH analysed from a blood sample, which led to his two-year ban.

"This is a landmark in the fight against doping," said UKAD chief executive Andy Parkinson.

"hGH is a substance that has previously gone undetected because it leaves the system fairly quickly."

Parkinson added: "This positive finding was a combination of intelligence, target-testing and a strong partnership with the scientific community in anti-doping.

"Athletes using hGH should take Newton's experience as a stern warning - if you use hGH you will not get away with it."

UKAD and the drug-testing laboratory at King's College's Drug Control Centre in London worked closely with the World Anti-Doping Agency throughout the sample-analysis process.

WADA director general David Howman said: "This first completed case involving an analytical finding for hGH is a positive step in the global fight against doping in sport.

"It sends a strong message to those athletes who take the risk to misuse hGH that we will ultimately catch them."

Former Leeds, Wigan and Bradford hooker Newton received an automatic two-year ban after last week admitting that he had taken the banned substance. And he has now had his contract cancelled with Super League side Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

[Mike Zero]

Is it just me or do WADA seem like they are just trying to send a message out to scare athletes - how viable is testing for HGH?

[Macforeigner]

May sound naive but is GH an illegal substance? It's all over the net! (?)

[musclenz]

May sound naive but is GH an illegal substance? It's all over the net! (?)

It is a prescription medicine in NZ

[jimjim83]

Typical leauge players! :pfft:

[nate225]

Is it just me or do WADA seem like they are just trying to send a message out to scare athletes - how viable is testing for HGH?

Funny you say that Mike,

I had a meeting with a well reknown NZL toxicologist who does the reviews of WADA material. She refered to the HGH testing protocols and said that they worked by identifying very subtle biomarkers, that distinguished recombinant HGH from the endogenously produced peptide. She was most interested to see the procedure had nabbed it's first doping cheat.

Nate

[Mike Zero]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/417 ... found-dead

[nate225]

Kind of made me wonder about two things:

1) Does publishing drug test failures at high level (as was Terry Newton's case) case a 'fall from grace' disproportionate to the offence. In this case what impact did this have, how much of the subsequent fallout from the test failure was involved in the guys decision to end his life?

If it was a high proportion (and we'll never know) it raises the question - is it worth ruining peoples lives (athletes under pressure to use banned substances) to have semi-clean sports?

2) Not to speak ill of the dead but Terry Newton seemed like he had a few things going on in his life (Sister on Heroin & died, his battle with depression). Does this background make an athlete more likely to use banned substances?

Food for thought. Tradgedy really.

Nate

[Luigi]

watch any nrl game and tell me the guys running round for 80 minutes with 19 inch guns arnt juicin :roll:

i dont think the public give 2 shits its only when someone tests positive and the media turns it into something negative that everyone gets angry.

everyone wants to see the biggest - fastest - strongest guys on the field but the public dont want to know there using even though the signs are all there, its only doing damage to the game bringing in testing.

[PeterDolan]

watch any nrl game and tell me the guys running round for 80 minutes with 19 inch guns arnt juicin :roll:

i dont think the public give 2 shits its only when someone tests positive and the media turns it into something negative that everyone gets angry.

everyone wants to see the biggest - fastest - strongest guys on the field but the public dont want to know there using even though the signs are all there, its only doing damage to the game bringing in testing.

Most people don't think athletes are on PED's unless the media bring it to light. Whenever I point it out when watching a game my mates are like "how would you know". Just because these athletes aren't covered in fake tan and in teeny tiny posing trunks the public just assume they are genetic freaks (which in part is true)

[thatwaslight]

watch any nrl game and tell me the guys running round for 80 minutes with 19 inch guns arnt juicin :roll:

i dont think the public give 2 shits its only when someone tests positive and the media turns it into something negative that everyone gets angry.

everyone wants to see the biggest - fastest - strongest guys on the field but the public dont want to know there using even though the signs are all there, its only doing damage to the game bringing in testing.

so true, most of the nrl have to be juicing

[Mrbig]

watch any nrl game and tell me the guys running round for 80 minutes with 19 inch guns arnt juicin :roll:

i dont think the public give 2 shits its only when someone tests positive and the media turns it into something negative that everyone gets angry.

everyone wants to see the biggest - fastest - strongest guys on the field but the public dont want to know there using even though the signs are all there, its only doing damage to the game bringing in testing.

so true, most of the nrl are juicing

fixed for you bro lol