Weekly Cheating Recap

Each Friday we provide a recap of cheating related stories from the previous week. This is your chance to catch up on what you may have missed, or what we may not have covered.

10/16/08 - Steroid Nation : Tracking the Revival of Reputations

10/16/08 - Red Bulls’ Jon Conway and Jeff Parke Suspended for PED use

10/16/08 - Field of schemes

10/16/08 - 60 Minutes Reporting on Online Poker Cheating Scandal

10/16/08 - Contador says anti-doping fight works

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Jon Conway and Jeff Parke

New York Red Bulls Players, Jon Conway and Jeff Parke, have been suspended 10 games for violating the Major League Soccer (MLS) policy on performance-enhancing substances. This incident is the first confirmed performance-enhancing drug (PED) case for Major League Soccer in its entire 13 years of operation.

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Olympic Doping Update

It has been an interesting week in Olympic Doping News. On October 10th we reported that the IOC would be conducting 5,000 re-tests for CERA and other substances. It turns out that the number will be closer to 1,000 as only targeted samples will be re-tested. However it was also discovered this week that 300 samples from the Olympic games went missing. Not to worry though, as the IOC has now announced that all of the missing samples have been recovered and have been found negative in testing. Makes you feel real confident in the process doesn’t it?

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Horse Doping Update

There has been a steady influx of Horse Doping news over the last few days. Two more states have decided to ban steroids from the track, Big Brown has retired, Rick Dutrow escaped suspension, and 4 harness racing horses tested positive. Now is your chance to get caught up on the latest news from one of the most despicable forms of cheating, doping horses.

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Terrence Metcalf

Terrence Metcalf, offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, has been suspended four games for violating the National Football League’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. Metcalf, in his 7th season out of Mississippi, lost his starting job in training camp. He will be eligible to return for the November 23rd game versus the St. Louis Rams.

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Bernhard Kohl

Bernhard Kohl is the latest cyclist to test positive for CERA at the 2008 Tour de France. The Austrian, Kohl, won the King of the Mountains Jersey and a 3rd place podium position in the overall classification at this year’s tour. He joins teammate Stefan Schumacher, Riccardo Ricco, and Leonardo Piepoli as the latest cyclist caught doping with CERA, a new form of EPO.

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Jose Canseco

Jose Canseco, poster-boy for steroid use in Baseball, was detained for nearly 10 hours by immigration officials as he tried to enter the United States with a controlled fertility drug in his vehicle. Canseco has published two books, Juiced and Vindicated, in which he named names, and exposed the drug culture in Major League Baseball.

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Tim Montgomery

Tim Montgomery, the disgraced former 100-meter world record holder, has been sentenced to five years in prison. The sentencing, which came on Friday from Virginia, follows his admission to distributing heroin. Montgomery admitted to BALCO investigators in 2003, to using a once undetectable steroid back in 2001. Despite not failing a drug test, the admission was enough to strip him of his 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medal in the 4×100m relay, and his 100m world record from 2002.

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Weekly Cheating Recap

Each Friday we provide a recap of cheating related stories from the previous week. This is your chance to catch up on what you may have missed, or what we may not have covered.

10/10/08 - Giro won’t re-test samples

10/9/08 - Bonds’ Attorneys question definition of steroids

10/9/08 - ProElite, MMA Promoter, Accused of Fight Fixing

10/9/08 - Bulgarian runner Daniela Yordanova receives 2 year doping ban

10/8/08 - Propecia Use Cleared By WADA

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MMA Fight Fixing

ProElite, a Mixed Martial Arts promoter, has found itself at the center of a possible fight fixing scandal. Last Saturday’s fight between Kimbo Slice and Seth Petruzelli lasted only 14 seconds before it was stopped with a KTFO. Petruzelli, a last-minute replacement, made comments following the stunner that have led many to raise allegations of fight fixing.

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