Elena Gaddoni has been given an 18-month suspension after testing positive for testosterone earlier this year. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) announced the ban on Thursday, according to Italian media sources.
The 30-year-old showed an unacceptably high testosterone value in an out-of-competition test done at a training camp in Garda on April 24.
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Correction officer to stand trial next year in steroid case.
A new trial date has been scheduled to begin early next year against an Oneida County correction officer accused of possessing and selling illegal steroids last summer.
Peter DiNardo, 42, of Deerfield, is now due to begin trial in Oneida County Court on Monday, Jan. 24.
Judge Barry M. Donalty scheduled the trial date Wednesday. The trial was initially set to begin in July, but the proceedings were postponed for nearly six months after DiNardo’s attorney, Michael Vavonese, was injured in a serious car accident.
DiNardo’s co-defendant, Zachary Lazore, 23, of Yorkville, already pleaded guilty to two counts of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced in July to five years of probation.
According to prosecutors, both men were involved in the illegal sale of steroids by Lazore, who also was a county correction officer at the time, to a confidential informant in North Utica on July 22, 2009.
Although DiNardo is not accused of being present for the drug sale, investigators have said they watched Lazore stop at DiNardo’s residence shortly before heading to Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse in North Utica for the pre-arranged sale.
Lazore was terminated as a correction officer once the allegations surfaced, while DiNardo was suspended without pay.
Peter DiNardo, 42, of Deerfield, is now due to begin trial in Oneida County Court on Monday, Jan. 24.
Judge Barry M. Donalty scheduled the trial date Wednesday. The trial was initially set to begin in July, but the proceedings were postponed for nearly six months after DiNardo’s attorney, Michael Vavonese, was injured in a serious car accident.
DiNardo’s co-defendant, Zachary Lazore, 23, of Yorkville, already pleaded guilty to two counts of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced in July to five years of probation.
According to prosecutors, both men were involved in the illegal sale of steroids by Lazore, who also was a county correction officer at the time, to a confidential informant in North Utica on July 22, 2009.
Although DiNardo is not accused of being present for the drug sale, investigators have said they watched Lazore stop at DiNardo’s residence shortly before heading to Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse in North Utica for the pre-arranged sale.
Lazore was terminated as a correction officer once the allegations surfaced, while DiNardo was suspended without pay.
CAS imposes 2-year ban on German swimmer Schoeber.
German swimmer Sonja Schoeber has had her ban for testing positive for testosterone doubled to two years by sport's highest court.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed the ban Thursday in upholding an appeal from Germany's national anti-doping agency after the country's national swimming federation had suspended Schoeber for only a year.
Schoeber says her two positive tests, in August and October 2009, came from tainted food supplements. But NADA argued that the former German 100-meter breaststroke champion could not prove her unintentional negligence.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed the ban Thursday in upholding an appeal from Germany's national anti-doping agency after the country's national swimming federation had suspended Schoeber for only a year.
Schoeber says her two positive tests, in August and October 2009, came from tainted food supplements. But NADA argued that the former German 100-meter breaststroke champion could not prove her unintentional negligence.
Former El Paso Ex-Deputy constable accused of delivering steroids.
A former El Paso volunteer reserve deputy constable was arrested and charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance.
Former Volunteer Reserve Deputy constable with El Paso County Constable’s Office Precinct 7, Horacio Garcia, was arrested at his home Monday afternoon a months-long investigation conducted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.
An arrest warrant was issued for Garcia, 38, on suspicion of delivering steroids.
Garcia was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility under bonds totaling $55,000. Garcia was fired from his job, according to Constable Angie Sommers.
"I want the community to know that I take these situations very seriously, my deputies will be rofessional at all times. If you can't be professional you can't be here. The citizens deserve better than this and out of Precinct 7 that's what they'll get," said Sommers.
Former Volunteer Reserve Deputy constable with El Paso County Constable’s Office Precinct 7, Horacio Garcia, was arrested at his home Monday afternoon a months-long investigation conducted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.
An arrest warrant was issued for Garcia, 38, on suspicion of delivering steroids.
Garcia was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility under bonds totaling $55,000. Garcia was fired from his job, according to Constable Angie Sommers.
"I want the community to know that I take these situations very seriously, my deputies will be rofessional at all times. If you can't be professional you can't be here. The citizens deserve better than this and out of Precinct 7 that's what they'll get," said Sommers.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob infected HGH case finally reaches court after twenty year legal battle.
Prosecutors have called for a three-year prison sentence for a biochemist accused of causing the wrongful death of 119 people to whom he administered tainted growth hormones in the 1980s. The months-long appeals trial ends Wednesday against Fernand Dray and other medical staff involved in administering the hormones.
"Professor Dray’s specific fault is an accumulation of imprudence and negligence," said prosecutor Bruno Sturlese, who asked for the maximum sentence for Dray.
The 88-year-old is the former head of a laboratory at the prestigious Pasteur Institute, which manufactured the growth hormone. Dray’s lawyers have called for a dismissal of the charges.
Prosecutors are also calling for six to nine months of prison for paediatrician Elisabeth Mugnier, 61, for involuntary homicide.
The hormone, which was manufactured from the glands from unregulated cadavers, turned out to transmit Creutzfeldt-Jakob (MCJ) disease. It was administered to 1,698 children between 1980 and 1988.
Victims have already received some 31 million euros in damages from the government.
Families of those who took the hormones have been involved in court cases against the manufacturers and administrators for almost 20 years to prove that they acted with the knowledge that the drug was infected.
The judge in the first case against Dray determined there was not enough evidence that he acted knowingly, and he was acquitted in January 2009.
The appeals case ends Wednesday, and a verdict is not expected before the spring.
"Professor Dray’s specific fault is an accumulation of imprudence and negligence," said prosecutor Bruno Sturlese, who asked for the maximum sentence for Dray.
The 88-year-old is the former head of a laboratory at the prestigious Pasteur Institute, which manufactured the growth hormone. Dray’s lawyers have called for a dismissal of the charges.
Prosecutors are also calling for six to nine months of prison for paediatrician Elisabeth Mugnier, 61, for involuntary homicide.
The hormone, which was manufactured from the glands from unregulated cadavers, turned out to transmit Creutzfeldt-Jakob (MCJ) disease. It was administered to 1,698 children between 1980 and 1988.
Victims have already received some 31 million euros in damages from the government.
Families of those who took the hormones have been involved in court cases against the manufacturers and administrators for almost 20 years to prove that they acted with the knowledge that the drug was infected.
The judge in the first case against Dray determined there was not enough evidence that he acted knowingly, and he was acquitted in January 2009.
The appeals case ends Wednesday, and a verdict is not expected before the spring.
British bodybuilders dies ten years after Doctor's warning him to quit using steroids.
A coroner has issued a warning about the dangers of taking unprescribed steroids, following the death of a Wigan dad.
An inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court heard former body-building enthusiast John Cowell had taken anabolic steroids around 10 years ago to help develop his physique.
In 1999, a CT scan revealed Mr Cowell had an enlarged heart, making it weak. This irreversible damage was put down to the use of the steroids.
Deputy Coroner Alan Walsh urged people who take steroids to be more aware of the dangers they can cause.
He said: “I am sure there are many people out there who take steroids which are available without a prescription, but it’s important that people know they are very dangerous.”
Dad-of-two Mr Cowell was found on his living room by his friend, John Jones, on the day of May 25.
Mr Jones told the inquest that they had agreed to meet that morning.
But when Mr Cowell did not show up, Mr Jones became worried and arranged to be taken to Mr Cowell’s house.
Having looked through the window, Mr Jones could see Mr Cowell was on the couch and was not breathing.
Two days earlier, Mr Cowell had been on a trip to Blackpool with his wife and son and had felt well.
His wife Catherine told the court they had walked further than usual, and there had been no sign he was ill.
Consultant cardiologist Dr Sanjay Arya, who had treated Mr Cowell, told the inquest he had advised Mr Cowell in 1999 to stop taking the steroids and drinking – although his alcohol intake was not excessively high.
Mr Cowell’s heart was only pumping around 20% of blood around his body, compared to the normal 60%.
He had developed cardiomyopathy, a condition in which sudden death is common.
Mr Arya said: “Mr Cowell’s death would have been down to an electrical disturbance in the heart.
“From my experience of dealing with patients who had suffered with this problem, they die a sudden and quick death, without any pain and discomfort.
“But the anabolic steroids can cause thickening of the heart.
“Although Mr Cowell had stopped taking the drugs, they had already caused irreversible damage to the heart.”
Pathologist Stephen Mills had found Mr Cowell to have an enlarged heart and suffering cardiomyopathy.
A verdict of death as a consequence from the use of anabolic steroids was recorded.
An inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court heard former body-building enthusiast John Cowell had taken anabolic steroids around 10 years ago to help develop his physique.
In 1999, a CT scan revealed Mr Cowell had an enlarged heart, making it weak. This irreversible damage was put down to the use of the steroids.
Deputy Coroner Alan Walsh urged people who take steroids to be more aware of the dangers they can cause.
He said: “I am sure there are many people out there who take steroids which are available without a prescription, but it’s important that people know they are very dangerous.”
Dad-of-two Mr Cowell was found on his living room by his friend, John Jones, on the day of May 25.
Mr Jones told the inquest that they had agreed to meet that morning.
But when Mr Cowell did not show up, Mr Jones became worried and arranged to be taken to Mr Cowell’s house.
Having looked through the window, Mr Jones could see Mr Cowell was on the couch and was not breathing.
Two days earlier, Mr Cowell had been on a trip to Blackpool with his wife and son and had felt well.
His wife Catherine told the court they had walked further than usual, and there had been no sign he was ill.
Consultant cardiologist Dr Sanjay Arya, who had treated Mr Cowell, told the inquest he had advised Mr Cowell in 1999 to stop taking the steroids and drinking – although his alcohol intake was not excessively high.
Mr Cowell’s heart was only pumping around 20% of blood around his body, compared to the normal 60%.
He had developed cardiomyopathy, a condition in which sudden death is common.
Mr Arya said: “Mr Cowell’s death would have been down to an electrical disturbance in the heart.
“From my experience of dealing with patients who had suffered with this problem, they die a sudden and quick death, without any pain and discomfort.
“But the anabolic steroids can cause thickening of the heart.
“Although Mr Cowell had stopped taking the drugs, they had already caused irreversible damage to the heart.”
Pathologist Stephen Mills had found Mr Cowell to have an enlarged heart and suffering cardiomyopathy.
A verdict of death as a consequence from the use of anabolic steroids was recorded.
Soldiers admit steroids use to bulk up for war.
Just weeks before his battalion of some 700 soldiers departed for Afghanistan in summer 2009, Lt. Col. Burton Shields had a disconcerting visit from an Army investigator.
The agent said several soldiers under Shields’ command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord had admitted to illegal use of steroids. One of the suspected users was a battalion captain.
Shields, who led the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, was skeptical.
But in the days that followed, the captain, as well as a lieutenant, first sergeant and nine other soldiers, admitted using steroids, according to investigative documents that offer a rare look at illegal use of those drugs in the military.
Steroid use in the Army has been on the rise amid a prolonged period of warfare. To prepare for – and perform – on combat tours of duty, some soldiers told investigators they turned to steroids to boost their brawn.
The latest Defense Department survey, conducted in 2008, found that 2.5 percent of Army personnel had illegally used steroids within the past 12 months, a jump from three years earlier, when 1.5 percent said they had used these drugs illegally.
Several soldiers from the 4/23 Battalion who confessed to using steroids estimated that more than half the unit of some 700 soldiers had sampled steroids, according to investigative documents obtained by the Seattle Times under the federal Freedom of Information Act. One soldier had a scheme for continuing steroid use in Afghanistan through the receipt of mail-order packages that would disguise the drugs in lotion packets.
Anabolic steroids can increase muscle mass and strength.
But these drugs can raise the risk of high blood pressure, heart and liver disease, and side effects can include mood swings, irritability and increased aggression, which can be a volatile attribute for soldiers headed off to battle.
“The use of steroids is a short-term gain for long-term problems that individuals are going to have, and we cannot tolerate them in any way, shape or form,” said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, who has taken a leadership role in Army efforts to reduce drug use among soldiers.
Seattle police tip
At Joint Base Lewis-McChord, steroid use in Shields’ battalion might have gone undetected if not for a tip in June 2009 from the Seattle Police Department. While investigating illegal gambling, a Seattle undercover detective encountered a battalion soldier who talked about steroid use and distribution. The Seattle police tipped off the Army Criminal Investigative Command, which had agents interview soldiers.
In the documents released to the Seattle Times, the names of battalion soldiers who admitted to using steroids were blacked out because none of the soldiers was convicted of any crimes. The soldiers were subject to other disciplinary actions, including an Article 15 punishment slapped on the captain, who was subject to pay forfeiture and up to 30-day confinement to his quarters.
Shields, the battalion commander, declined to be interviewed for this story.
But Maj. Kathleen Turner, a Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokeswoman, said the captain, first lieutenant and first sergeant who used steroids were subject to disciplinary actions and did not deploy to Afghanistan.
Usage an open secret
“No one really hid this,” said Seth Manzel, an Army veteran who served from 2004-’05 in Mosul, Iraq, with the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. “I walked into a squad leader’s room one time, and he was with another soldier who had his pants down around his ankle. He had a needle and was injecting that soldier.”
Manzel said about a half-dozen soldiers in his 35-man platoon used steroids. His roommate and several other soldiers took steroids purchased from American contractors who worked at the Mosul base, and they injected themselves with needles provided by medics, he said.
Officers, he added, weren’t eager to investigate steroid use.
“If a captain sees his soldiers getting stronger at a quicker rate, that’s not necessarily a bad thing,” said Manzel, who now operates Coffee Strong, a Lakewood, Pierce County, coffee shop, and has been active in the anti-war movement.
Some soldiers report steroid use among Army Rangers, who repeatedly cycle through war zones for months of difficult duty.
One Ranger veteran told the Seattle Times that several members of his unit were “juicing” while in Iraq in 2005, including a squad leader. The Ranger veteran said he also intended to take steroids but forgot his doses back at Lewis-McChord, so he took them upon his return.
“While I was doing them, I doubled in (muscular) size,” the veteran said.
But there were side effects.
He was angry much of the time, quick to snap at his girlfriend, and he found himself on an emotional roller coaster while coming off the steroids. But he sees value in steroids for soldiers heading off to combat.
“There is a broad spectrum of things that could kill you in a war zone. You need to be aggressive and quick. I would do them again in a heartbeat.”
Rush ‘to get stronger’
In early 2009, the 4/23 Battalion learned that instead of going to Iraq that summer, the soldiers would head to southern Afghanistan to battle the Taliban insurgency.
“I wanted to get stronger. I knew we were deploying,” one soldier, who used an injectable steroid as he trained for Afghanistan, told investigators. “We had this road march through the woods (during training), and I almost fell out, and they had to take my weapon … I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen over there.”
The steroids were purchased easily online and delivered to off-base houses. One soldier said he then would distribute the drugs at a gathering point in front of a barrack.
After Seattle police tipped them off, Army investigators sought to conduct steroid urinalysis on the entire battalion of some 700 soldiers. That request was rejected by Army legal officials because there was a lack of evidence to justify it, according to investigative documents.
But the Army investigators did conduct more-limited testing, along with interviews of soldiers and officers. Some battalion officers, when interviewed by investigators, expressed surprise at the steroid use.
But another battalion captain admitted to taking steroids twice at his apartment in DuPont. He felt comfortable enough to inject the drug even as a first sergeant in the unit was visiting his home.
“At first I disagreed with him and told him not to mess with it,” the first sergeant told investigators.
Then the first sergeant had a change of heart. Offered steroids by the captain, he injected the drugs during a two-month period.
The agent said several soldiers under Shields’ command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord had admitted to illegal use of steroids. One of the suspected users was a battalion captain.
Shields, who led the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, was skeptical.
But in the days that followed, the captain, as well as a lieutenant, first sergeant and nine other soldiers, admitted using steroids, according to investigative documents that offer a rare look at illegal use of those drugs in the military.
Steroid use in the Army has been on the rise amid a prolonged period of warfare. To prepare for – and perform – on combat tours of duty, some soldiers told investigators they turned to steroids to boost their brawn.
The latest Defense Department survey, conducted in 2008, found that 2.5 percent of Army personnel had illegally used steroids within the past 12 months, a jump from three years earlier, when 1.5 percent said they had used these drugs illegally.
Several soldiers from the 4/23 Battalion who confessed to using steroids estimated that more than half the unit of some 700 soldiers had sampled steroids, according to investigative documents obtained by the Seattle Times under the federal Freedom of Information Act. One soldier had a scheme for continuing steroid use in Afghanistan through the receipt of mail-order packages that would disguise the drugs in lotion packets.
Anabolic steroids can increase muscle mass and strength.
But these drugs can raise the risk of high blood pressure, heart and liver disease, and side effects can include mood swings, irritability and increased aggression, which can be a volatile attribute for soldiers headed off to battle.
“The use of steroids is a short-term gain for long-term problems that individuals are going to have, and we cannot tolerate them in any way, shape or form,” said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, who has taken a leadership role in Army efforts to reduce drug use among soldiers.
Seattle police tip
At Joint Base Lewis-McChord, steroid use in Shields’ battalion might have gone undetected if not for a tip in June 2009 from the Seattle Police Department. While investigating illegal gambling, a Seattle undercover detective encountered a battalion soldier who talked about steroid use and distribution. The Seattle police tipped off the Army Criminal Investigative Command, which had agents interview soldiers.
In the documents released to the Seattle Times, the names of battalion soldiers who admitted to using steroids were blacked out because none of the soldiers was convicted of any crimes. The soldiers were subject to other disciplinary actions, including an Article 15 punishment slapped on the captain, who was subject to pay forfeiture and up to 30-day confinement to his quarters.
Shields, the battalion commander, declined to be interviewed for this story.
But Maj. Kathleen Turner, a Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokeswoman, said the captain, first lieutenant and first sergeant who used steroids were subject to disciplinary actions and did not deploy to Afghanistan.
Usage an open secret
“No one really hid this,” said Seth Manzel, an Army veteran who served from 2004-’05 in Mosul, Iraq, with the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. “I walked into a squad leader’s room one time, and he was with another soldier who had his pants down around his ankle. He had a needle and was injecting that soldier.”
Manzel said about a half-dozen soldiers in his 35-man platoon used steroids. His roommate and several other soldiers took steroids purchased from American contractors who worked at the Mosul base, and they injected themselves with needles provided by medics, he said.
Officers, he added, weren’t eager to investigate steroid use.
“If a captain sees his soldiers getting stronger at a quicker rate, that’s not necessarily a bad thing,” said Manzel, who now operates Coffee Strong, a Lakewood, Pierce County, coffee shop, and has been active in the anti-war movement.
Some soldiers report steroid use among Army Rangers, who repeatedly cycle through war zones for months of difficult duty.
One Ranger veteran told the Seattle Times that several members of his unit were “juicing” while in Iraq in 2005, including a squad leader. The Ranger veteran said he also intended to take steroids but forgot his doses back at Lewis-McChord, so he took them upon his return.
“While I was doing them, I doubled in (muscular) size,” the veteran said.
But there were side effects.
He was angry much of the time, quick to snap at his girlfriend, and he found himself on an emotional roller coaster while coming off the steroids. But he sees value in steroids for soldiers heading off to combat.
“There is a broad spectrum of things that could kill you in a war zone. You need to be aggressive and quick. I would do them again in a heartbeat.”
Rush ‘to get stronger’
In early 2009, the 4/23 Battalion learned that instead of going to Iraq that summer, the soldiers would head to southern Afghanistan to battle the Taliban insurgency.
“I wanted to get stronger. I knew we were deploying,” one soldier, who used an injectable steroid as he trained for Afghanistan, told investigators. “We had this road march through the woods (during training), and I almost fell out, and they had to take my weapon … I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen over there.”
The steroids were purchased easily online and delivered to off-base houses. One soldier said he then would distribute the drugs at a gathering point in front of a barrack.
After Seattle police tipped them off, Army investigators sought to conduct steroid urinalysis on the entire battalion of some 700 soldiers. That request was rejected by Army legal officials because there was a lack of evidence to justify it, according to investigative documents.
But the Army investigators did conduct more-limited testing, along with interviews of soldiers and officers. Some battalion officers, when interviewed by investigators, expressed surprise at the steroid use.
But another battalion captain admitted to taking steroids twice at his apartment in DuPont. He felt comfortable enough to inject the drug even as a first sergeant in the unit was visiting his home.
“At first I disagreed with him and told him not to mess with it,” the first sergeant told investigators.
Then the first sergeant had a change of heart. Offered steroids by the captain, he injected the drugs during a two-month period.
DHT may not be to blame for men's prostate problems.
The use of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in older men doesn't appear to have an effect on prostate growth, though it does decrease spinal bone mineral density, according to research published in the Nov. 16 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Amanda Idan, of the University of Sydney in Australia, and colleagues analyzed data from 114 men older than 50 without known prostate disease who were randomized to receive daily transdermal DHT or placebo gel for two years. The primary efficacy end point was total prostate volume measured by ultrasonography every six months.
The researchers found that subjects' total and central prostate volume increased, but DHT had no beneficial or adverse effect on prostate growth. DHT treatment was associated with decreased bone mineral density in the spine (by 1.4 percent) but not the hip. There were no serious adverse effects caused by DHT.
"Idan and colleagues argue that their findings provide insight about the potential efficacy of future synthetic androgen receptor modulators that will likely share (with DHT) the anabolic effects on muscle and fat, as well as the sparing effects on the prostate. However, we caution that each synthetic androgen-receptor modulator could have a different target organ profile. We conclude that DHT acts as a hormone in tissues without high concentrations of 5α-reductase enzymes but mainly in an autocrine-paracrine manner in tissues like the prostate, in which 5α-reductase is abundant," write the authors of an accompanying editorial.
Amanda Idan, of the University of Sydney in Australia, and colleagues analyzed data from 114 men older than 50 without known prostate disease who were randomized to receive daily transdermal DHT or placebo gel for two years. The primary efficacy end point was total prostate volume measured by ultrasonography every six months.
The researchers found that subjects' total and central prostate volume increased, but DHT had no beneficial or adverse effect on prostate growth. DHT treatment was associated with decreased bone mineral density in the spine (by 1.4 percent) but not the hip. There were no serious adverse effects caused by DHT.
"Idan and colleagues argue that their findings provide insight about the potential efficacy of future synthetic androgen receptor modulators that will likely share (with DHT) the anabolic effects on muscle and fat, as well as the sparing effects on the prostate. However, we caution that each synthetic androgen-receptor modulator could have a different target organ profile. We conclude that DHT acts as a hormone in tissues without high concentrations of 5α-reductase enzymes but mainly in an autocrine-paracrine manner in tissues like the prostate, in which 5α-reductase is abundant," write the authors of an accompanying editorial.
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