Déjà vu – five Mexican players test positive for clenbuterol

Posted: July 2nd, 2011 - 8:20pm by Doug Powell

A month ago five Mexican players were sent home before the start of Gold Cup for testing positive for trace levels of clenbuterol, a prohibited anabolic substance.

Friday, four more players tested positive for the same substance. Health officials insisted Mexican beef doesn’t contain clenbuterol and that the incidence of contaminated beef is one in a million. They are either lying, or the Mexican soccer team is the unluckiest group of people ever. Once again, we’ll have to wait for the official investigation to be over.

Reminds me of a CSNY song.
 

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Categories: Wacky and Weird
Tags: clenbuterol, fifa, food safety, Football, mexico, Soccer

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theswordsman says:

Actually, all nine players had Clenbuterol in their tests on May 21, taken at the High Performance training center. The five we knew about had levels of .6 Ng and above. They just admitted that four more players had it, but the UCLA Lab has the discretion to not consider 200 picograms and under as positives. Tough news for Alberto Contador, who has been treated like a massive doper at 50 picograms. Six soccer players had way more than him, and it's already announced that the Disciplinary Committee is letting them off.

Posted on July 2nd, 2011 - 8:55pm

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