Don't blame the food, says Games doping official
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November 25, 2010, Thursday
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THERE needs to be evidence before blaming food for positive dope tests, an official at the Asian Games in Guangzhou said yesterday after a second Uzbekistan athlete was found to have taken a banned substance.
Zhao Jian, deputy director of the China Anti-Doping Agency, was responding to claims that contaminated food was to blame for Shokir Muminov being stripped of his silver medal for judo last Friday after testing positive for methylhexaneamine.
Zhao said no Chinese athlete had tested positive for the stimulant since it was included in the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List in 2009.
The Asian Games' second doping case involves Uzbekistan Greco-Roman wrestler Jakhongir Muminov who tested positive for methylhexaneamine in an out-of-competition test on November 19, Dr Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the Olympic Council of Asia's medical committee, said yesterday.
Uzbekistan delegation officials have blamed food eaten in China for the first positive case.
The WADA said the stimulant had been sold as a medicine until the 1970s and had reappeared in some nutritional supplements. It is also found in some recreational drugs.
"We keep reminding the athletes of the potential danger in nutritional supplements which may contain banned substances," said Zhao.
"What the Chinese athletes take has been thoroughly tested by the lab to ensure its safety."
He added: "The athletes should be careful because they are responsible for what they take."
Anti-doping officials plan to perform about 1,500 tests on the nearly 10,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions competing at the Games.
"As of November 23, we have conducted a total of 1,162 tests. And we have received the results of 1,090 of them. Of these results there are at least two positive cases," Jegathesan said, referring to the two Uzbeks.
A positive test for methylhexaneamine carries a two-year ban.
All samples collected at the Guangzhou event are being tested at the WADA-accredited lab in Beijing which conducted drug checks for the 2008 Olympics. Methylhexaneamine has been the subject of several high-profile doping cases this year.
Nigerian sprinter Osayomi Oludamola was stripped of her Commonwealth Games 100 meters gold medal for using methylhexaneamine. Six Indian wrestlers and three swimmers also tested positive for the drug ahead of the event.
Some athletes have said they unwittingly ingested methylhexaneamine when using supplements or other products.
At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, four weightlifters, including two Uzbekistan athletes, were disqualified after positive dope tests.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Chinese swimmer Ouyang Kunpeng tested positive for clenbuterol, a banned steroid. Ouyang said he unknowingly ingested it when he dined out before the Olympics.
Zhao Jian, deputy director of the China Anti-Doping Agency, was responding to claims that contaminated food was to blame for Shokir Muminov being stripped of his silver medal for judo last Friday after testing positive for methylhexaneamine.
Zhao said no Chinese athlete had tested positive for the stimulant since it was included in the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List in 2009.
The Asian Games' second doping case involves Uzbekistan Greco-Roman wrestler Jakhongir Muminov who tested positive for methylhexaneamine in an out-of-competition test on November 19, Dr Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the Olympic Council of Asia's medical committee, said yesterday.
Uzbekistan delegation officials have blamed food eaten in China for the first positive case.
The WADA said the stimulant had been sold as a medicine until the 1970s and had reappeared in some nutritional supplements. It is also found in some recreational drugs.
"We keep reminding the athletes of the potential danger in nutritional supplements which may contain banned substances," said Zhao.
"What the Chinese athletes take has been thoroughly tested by the lab to ensure its safety."
He added: "The athletes should be careful because they are responsible for what they take."
Anti-doping officials plan to perform about 1,500 tests on the nearly 10,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions competing at the Games.
"As of November 23, we have conducted a total of 1,162 tests. And we have received the results of 1,090 of them. Of these results there are at least two positive cases," Jegathesan said, referring to the two Uzbeks.
A positive test for methylhexaneamine carries a two-year ban.
All samples collected at the Guangzhou event are being tested at the WADA-accredited lab in Beijing which conducted drug checks for the 2008 Olympics. Methylhexaneamine has been the subject of several high-profile doping cases this year.
Nigerian sprinter Osayomi Oludamola was stripped of her Commonwealth Games 100 meters gold medal for using methylhexaneamine. Six Indian wrestlers and three swimmers also tested positive for the drug ahead of the event.
Some athletes have said they unwittingly ingested methylhexaneamine when using supplements or other products.
At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, four weightlifters, including two Uzbekistan athletes, were disqualified after positive dope tests.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Chinese swimmer Ouyang Kunpeng tested positive for clenbuterol, a banned steroid. Ouyang said he unknowingly ingested it when he dined out before the Olympics.
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