Doping Ban

Has anyone seen this?!

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/ru...

Like for goodness sake. They wanted to ban him for using an inhaler. GRRR!

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Dont know about the 15 a side authorities but I do know a lot of people who play ""semi"" professional rugby league and even at that level ,the list of ""banned"" substances includes quite a lot of common or garden cold relief products.

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A matter of paperwork - the inhaler that he declared was salbutamol, so when terbutaline (bricanyl) turned up in his urine, he was subject to investigation. Had he (or, perhaps, the teams medics) kept his paperwork/meds list up to date, there wouldn't have been a fuss.

As bluejam says, the list of ""doping substances"" is huge and covers a lot of asthma medications due to the potential for them to be used to enhance performance.

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I remember reading in the Guardian a while back that 'sambutamol' [sic] is a commonly abused drug amongst golfers! (sport.guardian.co.uk/open20...

I don't know much about golf, but I wouldn't have thought that the good old sal-shakes would improve your game very much!

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hi all

Just my two pennorth - if you are taking part in sport at any sort of serious competitive level, you have to be incredibly obsessional about medication. I used to row at an elite club level, and had constantly to update my list of meds and liaise with medical officers frequently. For many medications on the ""banned"" list, like theophylline, beta agonists, and even in my case prednisolone, you can get exemption on medical grounds - but you have to do it in advance by an approved person (I was lucky enough to have Richard Budgett as a member of my sculling club which was very handy!), and do it all over again if anything changes.

Just another thing for sportspeople to remember, unfortunately, along with being at the right place at the right time in case the drug testers turn up (eg Christine Ohorugu).

EJ

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Just a quick Q. Does anyone know where I am able to find a list of banned substances. Is it one that applies to every sport or does the list differ from sport to sport?

Just wondering as am hoping to get back to competition fitness this season so will need to know.

Ta

Em

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uksport.gov.uk/assets/File/...

^ Has the list of prohibited substances in international sport for 2008.

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EmilyH,

salbutamol def doesnt help with golf for me however some epople find that it is somthing to do with cramp. i found a couple of journal article in a sport journal but didnt really undertsand it a huge amount.

I know when i was playing golf very competitivly i had to declare all the drugs i was taking and had to get a special TUE for some of them over and above the regular TUE.

In the world of sport if you dont declareit you are at fault even if you thought it was ok.You never can be too careful and must declare everyhting even if you dont think it will effect you.

If i find out what it is exactly if you wnat to know EmilyH let me know.

Olive

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Em - it might be worth checking with the official body of whatever sport it is that you are doing; they may have a slightly different list of banned substances, and they are the ones that will be ""policing"" you!

For example, and in relation to the story that opened this thread, here's what the RFU has to say about TUEs:

tinyurl.com/2yg4b5

(And yes, I know the opening story was about rugby in Scotland, and this is the English union - I'm a Sassenach, don't you know!)