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Border service says designer steroid smuggler was former track athlete
Bill Beacon
Canadian Press
Thursday, February 03, 2005
(CP) - The man arrested for illegally importing a new designer steroid
into Canada was a former provincial-level track athlete once suspended for
steroid use, a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency said
Wednesday.
Derek Dueck of Calgary was fined a total of $3,000 in provincial court in
Lethbridge, Alta., last Friday, said Border Services spokesman Chris
Kealey. He had pleaded guilty to two counts, each carrying a $1,500 fine -
one for making a false or deceptive statement on the value of goods and
another for attempting to smuggle controlled or regulated substances into
Canada.
Dueck could not immediately be reached for comment.
The World Anti-Doping Agency announced Tuesday that scientists had
uncovered a new generation of designer steroid, called desoxy-methyl
testosterone (DMT), in a bottle that had been seized in December, 2003 at
the U.S.-Canada border crossing at Coutts, Alta.
It remains unknown who produced the drug, a sophisticated
performance-enhancing substance designed to pass undetected through doping
tests.
Christiane Ayotte, head of the Montreal dope testing lab that helped
identify the steroid, called it a new generation from THG, the first of
the so-called designer steroids discovered in 2003 that led to a U.S.
federal inquiry into the BALCO lab and the suspension of several prominent
athletes.
She said re-tests of urine samples collected in recent months showed no
sign of the new steroid, leaving WADA to believe it has caught the drug
before it went into general circulation among athletes.
However, it confirmed fears that chemists were at work to produce ever
more complex drugs to beat the doping tests.
Dueck, who competed mainly at the provincial level as a sprinter, was
handed a four-year suspension from competition after he tested positive at
the Canada Games in 1997 for androstenedione, described as a precursor to
the steroid testosterone.
He was reinstated two years later after an appeal, arguing that the drug
was not on the IOC list of banned substances at the time.
An Athletics Canada spokeswoman said Dueck never competed for the national
team.
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Los Angeles Times
February 3, 2005
Canadian authorities announced that a Calgary man had been fined $3,000 for trying to smuggle steroids
and human growth hormone into that country.
Derek Arthur Dueck, 31, pleaded guilty in a provincial court to one count of smuggling a controlled
substance and another of making a false statement, Canada's border patrol agency announced in a statement.
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