Another World Class Swimmer Caught Cheating

Somebody here should volunteer to start a doping/suspected doping elite swimmer list. How about former elite swimmers who used performance enhancing drugs and are now swimming Masters? Just out of curiosity, if you were once elite, do you retain that label indefinitely?

How about former elite swimmers who used performance enhancing drugs and are now swimming Masters? Just out of curiosity, if you were once elite, do you retain that label indefinitely? Now that's a list that would attract some webpage hits. As for elite swimmers retaining their titles lifelong, I don't think so.

I showed this picture to my wife globoesporte.globo.com/.../0,,11510787,00.jpg I asked her what do you think of this swimmer she said what about him I said that's a woman she said sh!t she's on steroids

Wow, at first I thought the pic was a joke. After reading the article, I'm curious as to why she has not sought treatment? She almost puts Bev Francis to shame.

Rebeca Gusmao is one muscular woman, reminds me a little of Angel Martino. images.google.com/images Another swimmer bites the dust. She says its from her ovarian disease . . . . . pay no attention to the synthetic qualities of testosterone that was reported to be found in her sample. Don't know if I'd want to arm "wrastle" this woman. grg51.typepad.com/.../swimmer-gusmoa-.html "Brazilian swimmer Rebeca Gusmoa suspended for steroids She won 2 Pan Am Games gold medals, plus a silver and a bronze. She looks like the Incredible Hulk. And, she used synthetic testosterone. Check out her photos; which is the off-cycle? Summing governing body FINA announced the doping suspensions of Brazil's Rebeca Gusmao. The International Herald carries the story."

If I recall correctly Martino failed a drug test in 1988 and blamed it on birth control pills. Yeah. Has any drug cheat in the history of sport ever actually admitted they cheated?

-- The federal government has weighed in on "hiding the evidence"... news.yahoo.com/.../drugs_poop_dc_2;_ylt=AqKFfSvHoBjcayjxXpOQWkcR.3QA Hide your old pills in poop, government says November 7, 2007 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Got some leftover drugs -- the kind that someone else might want to use, such as painkillers or stimulants? Wrap them up in used kitty litter or other pet droppings, the government advises. A pilot program at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is looking at ways people can safely dispose of unused prescription drugs that are liable to be abused. The Food and Drug Administration recommends flushing some of the most dangerous ones down the toilet, including the strong, addictive painkillers oxycodone and fentanyl and stimulants such as methylphenidate. But environmentalists worry about the effects on fish and amphibians. On its Web site at www.samhsa.gov/.../, SAMHSA recommends ways to disguise leftover pills. "Mixing prescription drugs with an undesirable substance, such as used coffee grounds or kitty litter, and putting them in impermeable, nondescript containers, such as empty cans or sealable bags, will further ensure the drugs are not diverted," it says. Of course some people do not drink coffee. But maybe they have a pet ferret. "Ferret waste, like nearly any other form of pet waste, can be effectively used to help prevent the abuse of unused prescription drugs," SAMHSA spokesman Mark Weber said. This news delighted the American Ferret Association. "The U.S. government declares ferret poop to be an effective weapon against drug abuse," the group said in a statement....

I showed this picture to my wife globoesporte.globo.com/.../0,,11510787,00.jpg I asked her what do you think of this swimmer she said what about him I said that's a woman she said sh!t she's on steroids :rofl: She definitely looks suspicious in that picture!

Another swimmer bites the dust. She says its from her ovarian disease . . . . . pay no attention to the synthetic qualities of testosterone that was reported to be found in her sample. Don't know if I'd want to arm "wrastle" this woman. With the recent IOC decision (this is not a joke, by the way), all this may become moot. Declare yourself male or female, and the IOC will concur. Remember the Renee Richards/Richard Raskind tennis controversy? Well, now even the IOC is "politically correct". :cheerleader::banana: Here's the gist of the IOC's policy: (from "Olympics' transgender quandary Debate rages on the fairness of new inclusion rule", Rona Marech, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer, Monday, June 14, 2004) "Last month, the International Olympic Committee enacted a policy on transsexuals before an elite athlete could force the question. The committee said transgender athletes could compete in the Olympics if they met certain requirements, such as completing genital reconstructive surgery and at least two years of hormonal therapy. The IOC also requires that "legal recognition of their assigned sex has been conferred by the appropriate official authorities," such as by a nation's courts. The committee's medical director, Patrick Schamasch, said the policy was designed "more to protect the athlete who has not been sex reassigned than to help the person who is." If an athlete follows the new rules, he said, "we are almost sure that the advantage of the previous gender will have completely disappeared." I read in the Journal of Irreproducible Results that one of the Smiths was considering hormonal therapy as a route to ultimate genital reconstructive surgery. Is this true? :duel:

-- The federal government has weighed in on "hiding the evidence"... news.yahoo.com/.../...jxXpOQWkcR.3QA Hide your old pills in poop, government says November 7, 2007 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Got some leftover drugs -- the kind that someone else might want to use, such as painkillers or stimulants? Wrap them up in used kitty litter or other pet droppings, the government advises. Or, like most rational people, you could drop your leftover drugs off at a pharmacy. :shakeshead: