Japanese Weighlifter Banned For Steroid Use

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]Guardian: Japanese weightlifter banned for using anabolic steroid
Japanese weightlifter Ryuta Takahashi has been banned for two years after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. The Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) said a random out-of-competition test conducted on the 23-year-old showed traces of the banned substance metenolone. "He was tested during training in Fukuoka in February," JADA's chief executive officer Shin Asakawa told Reuters on Friday. "The athlete was positive for metenolone, an androgenic substance which is on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list." Takahashi becomes just the fourth athlete to receive a two-year ban from JADA since the agency took on the role of a national disciplinary body in July 2007. "We had cases in bodybuilding, chess and windsurfing," Asakawa said. "The chess player was given some medicine by his doctor and the windsurfer took some hair-restoring treatment for a condition he had, so they were unlucky in a sense. The bodybuilding incident was different, but cases of doping are still rare in Japan so it is still quite a complicated feeling when someone is caught"...Local media reported that Takahashi was seeking medical treatment for shock after learning of his positive drugs test and subsequent ban, while officials have been unable to contact him...more...

[GuyJean]

Don't they prescribe steroids for kafuncho?.. Wouldn't everyone in Japan test positive?

GJ

[Mulboyne]

The JADA website says that Tomomi Ishiura also took banned substances. Ishiura was a competitor at the International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championships.

[ttjereth]

Don't they prescribe steroids for kafuncho?.. Wouldn't everyone in Japan test positive?

GJ

Japanese weightlifter Ryuta Takahashi has been banned for two years after testing positive for an Anabolic steroid

You may be concerned about using nasal steroids to treat your nasal allergy symptoms. You may believe that nasal steroids are like anabolic steroids that some athletes use to enhance their performance. Nasal steroids are similar to natural hormones, which are produced in our bodies. Some of these natural substances produced by our bodies influence metabolism and reduce inflammation. Others help control salt and water balance and the functioning of the immune system. Nasal steroids do not produce the same reactions in your body as anabolic steroids. When taken as directed, nasal steroids can be a safe and effective treatment for nasal allergies and allergic rhinitis.

http://www.rhinocortaqua.com/nasal-allergies/nasal-steroids.aspx

It is critical to stress that the inhaled steroids used are not anabolic and are safe in comparison with oral or steroids by mouth or those injected (in the muscle in put in the bloodstream on a regular basis).

http://www.allergyhelpnow.org/NEWSLETTERS.html
I'm pretty sure anabolic steroids wouldn't be prescribed for hayfever If they were every asthatic kid would be bulking up since they have to take the damn things anyway

[Charles]

[quote="ttjereth"]I'm pretty sure anabolic steroids wouldn't be prescribed for hayfever ]
The steroid injections used for hay fever do contain anabolic steroids. It's not enough to make you bulk up (as I know from taking the injections for a few years when I was a kid), but it is enough to get you banned from sports.

[ttjereth]

The steroid injections used for hay fever do contain anabolic steroids. It's not enough to make you bulk up (as I know from taking the injections for a few years when I was a kid), but it is enough to get you banned from sports.

Yeah, me too. I also have asthma.

TYPES OF STEROIDS
There are two kinds of steroids: 1) Anabolic steroids, sometimes used by athletes to build muscle mass and enhance performance]and 2) corticosteroids, used by physicians to treat inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis, asthma, and allergies. [/B] These are really two different types of steroids; corticosteroids are structurally similar to the steroids your body produces every day and do not cause the effects seen with anabolic steroids. Corticosteroids may be given systemically (by pill, syrup, or injection) and locally (creams and ointments, nasal sprays, or inhalers). We usually prescribe steroids by the local route since this greatly reduces the likelihood of side effects. Patients with flare-ups of their allergies and asthma, however, occasionally require systemic steroids for maximal treatment.

http://www.regionalallergy.com/treatment/articleDetails.aspx?id=49

[Mulboyne]

Japan has a reasonably clean record in doping but there have been a couple of black sheep along the way. With the Olympics about to start, I thought I'd see whether any Japanese sportsman have been thrown out of that competition for doping. For some reason, I thought a Japanese fencer was once caught but it's either a figment of my imagination or else not well-documented. However, there's a Wikipedia list which seems comprehensive and Japan does appear. Eiji Shimomura and Mikiyasu Tanaka of the men's volleyball team both tested positive for banned substances at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The shame these men brought to their country surely led to social ostracism. Wikipedia has this on Tanaka:

Tanaka was caught on doping at the 1984 Summer Olympics, using ephedrine. In 1992, Tanaka was sent abroad by the Japan Olympic Committee to study volleyball in the United States and Italy. He coached his country's junior team in 2000. Tanaka was appointed to the senior coaching position for the Japan's national team in 2001. His team's priority was to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics, in which he failed.

His Japanese wiki entry doesn't mention anything about doping.

[Greji]

Japan has a reasonably clean record in doping but there have been a couple of black sheep along the way.

Just as an off-shoot of that post, one of the biggest problems encountered in running doping programs is the establishment of thresholds. The society of today has myriad medicines, remedies and the like sold legally over the counter that even if used as advertised and/or prescribed can result in a positive if the threshold for testing is set too low.

A good example of this is ephedrine. Ephedrine was widely available in Europe and North American in zillions of cold remedies and medicine for asthma. Since it is also a percursor for Meth (Shabu), it is banned in any form in Japan unless prescrided by a doctor.

There have been many shocked FGs when their Vick's Inhalers were taken at customs when entering Japan, as well as Japanese getting positives for cold medicines while overseas.

They have sorted a lot of this out over recent years, but it remains a problem. A positive test, while being the starting gun for a media feeding fest, is not always a sure indicator of doping. This is why they take split samples to double check and/or use different laboratories.

But they constantly adjusting the thresholds to find the levels that will exclude proper use of a drug from the levels that would identify it for mis-use. It is an on-going problem.

[Mulboyne]

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Yomiuri: Hyperbaric chamber maker may sue JADA

A U.S. company that makes hyperbaric chambers believed to help athletes recover more quickly from strenuous training is considering suing the Japan Anti-Doping Association for discouraging the use of its products, it was learned Friday. OxyHealth, LLC, based in Sante Fe Springs, Calif., is considering filing a 1 billion yen suit with the Tokyo District Court--the amount of damages it believes it incurred from a JADA pronouncement in June that use of the oxygen chamber should be discouraged as it might be construed as a form of doping. OxyHealth's Japan office said it is less concerned with the damages than having JADA revise its view of the matter.

[kusai Jijii]

Goodness golly me. I'm soooo shocked. Considering noone in the J-pro-wres and K1 worlds ever are on the gear...