Our first doping-related news item of the day comes from the AP report of an internet steroid ring that was busted yesterday:
The Times Union reported that investigators in the year-old case uncovered evidence that testosterone and other performance-enhancing drugs may have been fraudulently prescribed over the Internet to current and former major league baseball and NFL players, college athletes, high school coaches, and a former Mr. Olympia champion.
I can understand professional athletes and even Mr. Olympia needing a little edge to get that winning mass, but high school students? Yes, even our high school athletes are getting doped now. Keep your eye on those coaches parents, and if your kid goes from a size 9 shoe to a size 13 in one month, something is wrong!
Next up, non-human sports, and the doping that goes on in the field of horse-racing. From today's Toronto Sun:
Racehorses which tested positive for an illegal amphetamine won't be allowed to compete at the province's racetracks until they are proven to be clean.
The Ontario Racing Commission recently ordered blood and urine samples taken from seven horses found to have the street drug Aminorex in their systems earlier this month.
Okay, first off, Aminorex is not a "street drug", it is a very powerful designer amphetamine and cannot be found on any street I know of (and I know a lot of pretty bad streets). It is almost too powerful for humans, and yet
seven horses have been found to have this drug in their system? Seven? Come on.
No, this is not a street drug, I'm guessing this was custom made turbo-powered racehorse nose-candy manufactured and sold specifically for rigging races. Find the chemist who cut this molecule and this racehorse doping ring will come unravelled.
