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| pantanifan |
Doping in Other SportsAccording to this article on one of Hungary's leading news websites (quoting the Hungarian state-run news agency as the source), doping is rife in French football:http://sportgeza.hu/futball/hirek...oppingolnak_a_francia_futballban/ Translation: A lot of players are doping in French football MTI - Hungarian national news agency Wed. 18 March 2009, 14:33 French experts have detected significant doping usage in French football through studies which were conducted on samples obtained from hair strands of football players in 2008. The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD), which published results of the analysis on Wednesday, established that the footballers had clearly been doping when they took age-inhibiting - and thus physical condition-improving - hormones (so-called DHEA), with the objective of performance enhancement. This can only be detected with difficulty in blood and urine samples, however this anabolic steroid - which also leaves traces in the skin and nails -, is not only "popular" in football in France but also - according to the testimony of the studies - in other sports, including rugby, athletics and cycling. According to the results of the tests, conducted using the AFLD "hair strand" method, 16.5% of the samples taken were positive. Within this, French footballers produced the most cases: 21.8% of those sampled had been doping. The "silver medal" went to amateur cyclists (17.6%), athletics was third (13.22) and professional cycling fourth (10.8%) |
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| Mrs John Murphy |
Hair seems to be the testing vehicle of choice these days for the French...
Is there any evidence of the size of samples? Was it the same for each sport? |
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| Bro Deal |
Uh-oh. We know that Armstrong was using steroids because his personal assistant found a bottle of them in his bathroom. He is probably tempted to use them now to get back into shape and his recent testing took hair samples... | ||
| pantanifan |
No further details were given, just what was included in the first post. The story didn't stay on the main site for long, as I suspected, but I would have thought this story should be all over l'équipe as well? |
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| Mrs John Murphy |
It was mentioned in the Yahoo Story about Armstrong having to give a hair sample yesterday. They were very quick to point out that hair sampling is unaccepted by WADA as a reliable method.
My guess the fact that it hasn't been covered by L'Equipe is indicative of the gagging of the press. |
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| pantanifan |
Probably right about Equipe, maybe we should ask our old friend and BBC journalist Matt Slater to carry out an in-depth undercover investigation into doping in football? 
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| Mrs John Murphy |
For an old fashioned xenophobe like himself I am sure he'd love to put the boot in on the French. Of course like Golfers, Premier League footballers have no need to dope. They are all good clean British guys - apart from the dirty cheating foreigners. | ||
| last km |
Didnt they test Boonens hair also ???? for his recent charlie case | ||
| cardinal guzman |
L'eqipe said last year that they were capitulating to Omerta. | ||
| pantanifan |
It seems football is already clean and does a lot of tests, so doesn't need to sign up to the WADA code:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7961907.stm 
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