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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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1 5 - 1 1 - 2 0 0 3 Underground anabolenfabrikant ging niet naar Olympische Spelen Tijdens een verkeerscontrole hebben Australische agenten de bestelbus van een 25-jarige gewichtheffer Keith Murphy aangehouden. Daarin vonden ze 19 kilo anabole steroiden, vooral stanozolol. Toen ze daarna het huis van de man in het stadje Warrandyte doorzochten vonden ze flesjes, labels, poeder, groeihormoon en een pers om pillen te maken. De man woonde samen met zijn coach. Volgens het Australisch Olympisch Comité was de man uitgekozen als lid van het Australisch team, maar was hij niet komen opdagen om dingen te regelen. ,,We hebben hem niet kunnen opmeten voor zijn jasje'', aldus een zegsman. Connecties had de opgepakte atleet wel. Hij was genomineerd door de gewezen bestuurder van de Australian Weightlifting Federation, Robbert Kabbas. Volgens de Federatie was de opgepakte fabrikant pas sinds kort weer actief in de sport. ,,Hij heeft jarenlang geen wedstrijden gedaan. Hij traint zelf, los van de Federatie.'' Komende maandag verschijnt de gewichtheffer voor de rechter. Volgens de politie heeft hij zich schuldig gemaakt aan het maken en vervoeren van drugs in 'commerciële hoeveelheden'. Volgend jaar komt de zaak voor, en tot die tijd mag Murphy op borg vrij rondlopen. Volgens zijn advocaat werkt de gewichtheffer nu hard aan zijn eigen supplementenbedrijf, en stort dat gegarandeerd in elkaar als Murphy achter tralies verdwijnt.
1. Man charged with drug trafficking.
The Advertiser, 15-11-2003. 0 6 - 1 2 - 2 0 0 3 Nationale coach gewichtheffen ondervraagd
De Australische politie wil de nationale gewichthefcoach Sev Marinov gaan ondervragen over zijn huisgenoot Keith Murphy. Die werd enkele weken geleden gearresteerd toen hij negentien kilo anabolen in zijn busje vervoerde. Agenten troffen in zijn woning een klein fabriekje om anabolen te maken.
Volgens zijn vrienden heeft Marinov niks met de zaak te maken. ,,Zoiets zou Sev nooit doen.''
Roy Masters. National coach to be quizzed over steroids. Sydney Morning Herald, 6-12-2003. 1 6 - 0 9 - 2 0 0 5 Former weightlifter avoids jail for steroids trafficking
Friday, September 16, 2005 An aspiring Australian weightlifter has avoided being sent to jail for trafficking 15 kilograms of steroids. Keith Murphy, 25, of Warrandyte in outer Melbourne, pleaded guilty to trafficking and possessing steroids in November 2003. The Victorian County Court heard the Commonwealth Games junior squad member and Athens Olympics hopeful sold almost 16 kilograms to fellow weightlifters while working as a nutritional supplements distributor. Judge Elizabeth Curtain told the court the prevalence of steroid taking in the weightlifting industry may have explained Murphy's behaviour, but it did not excuse it. But she said he was of good character, had since left the weightlifting and fitness industry and had already started rehabilitating himself. Mr Murphy's two-year-jail sentence has been wholly suspended. 1 3 - 0 2 - 2 0 0 6 Drugs case may change team
Jacquelin Magnay
COMMONWEALTH Games weightlifter and alleged sports-drug trafficker Belinda Van Tienen may be thrown off the Australian team on the eve of the Commonwealth Games. Her controversial drug case will be the first transferred to the new Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) amid criticism by independent investigators of the Australian Weightlifting Federation, headed by Games executive Sam Coffa. The federation secretly cleared Van Tienen with its own inquiry without reference to the Australian Sports Commission. But the commission got wind of the investigation and became involved. Then late last week Coffa, who is also president of the Australian Commonwealth Games Association, claimed after receiving a report of the commission's investigation that Van Tienen was "cleared" and free to compete. Last night Coffa said there was no substance to the criticism and it "was a lot of rubbish". He would not comment on Van Tienen. But the ASADA, which comes into force this morning with new powers, will be handed the Van Tienen file for immediate consideration, throwing the final make-up of the Australian weightlifting team in doubt. Yesterday meetings between lawyers for the Australian Sports Commission and the old drugs body, the Australian Sports Drug Agency, were held in Canberra to discuss the independent report, prepared by a Canberra firm. "The report of the independent inquiry into Belinda Van Tienen hasn't been finalised," an Australian Sports Commission spokesman said yesterday. Van Tienen was named in the weightlifting team despite being named as the supplier of the drug benzylpiperazine (BZP) that resulted in two-year bans to two of her rivals, Camilla Fogagnolo and Jenna Myers. It is believed that Van Tienen suffered an injury in training a week ago. The suggestion around the traps is that the best solution for all concerned is her withdrawal from the Games. Van Tienen was working for her disgraced flatmate Keith Murphy, who owns a supplement company, Fortius, when she supplied the two Tasmanian lifters with supplements. Murphy was convicted of drug trafficking late last year after being caught with 14.6 kilograms of the Ben Johnson steroid Stanozolol and a large quantity of liquids, tablets, powders, glass vials, caps, labels and boxes used in the production and the sale of anabolic steroids. The court also heard that scales, mixers and an industrial pill press were also at his Warrandyte residence. When handing down a two-year suspended sentence the judge took into consideration Murphy's closure of his supplement business. Just months later the business is thriving. Van Tienen told wieghtlifting officials she didn't know the supplements were tainted with illegal drugs. 1 5 - 0 6 - 2 0 0 6 Van Tienen in the clear to compete
The Australian THE chairman of the new sports anti-doping agency said yesterday it did not have the power to prevent a Victoria-based lifter at the centre of a drug investigation from competing at the Commonwealth Games.
Belinda van Tienen, selected to contest Monday's 69kg class for women, will be allowed to represent Australia while the new Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) determines if she has a case to answer over allegations she sold a stimulant to two fellow lifters. "An athlete can compete unless there is some case against the athlete," ASADA chairman Richard Ings said. "In this particular case, it is an ongoing investigation and that conclusion has not been reached yet. It is difficult to provisionally suspend someone when you have no evidence there is actually a case against her." ASADA assumed responsibility for the investigation from the Australian Sports Commission when it came into effect yesterday, incorporating the previous functions of the Australian Sports Drug Agency. Team chef de mission John Devitt said van Tienen had not been charged with any offence. "As such, she is a member of the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games," Devitt said. Van Tienen was reported in the media last week as having been cleared by the Australian Weightlifting Federation of supplying performance-enhancing substances in a contaminated dietary supplement to two of her competitors, Camilla Fogagnolo and Jenna Myers. The pair have been suspended for two years. But AWF president Sam Coffa yesterday denied the AWF investigated the matter after Weightlifting Tasmania president Tony O'Malley tabled allegations in writing to it and the commission last month, sparking the ASC and ASADA investigations. The AWF investigator, Ian Moir, found there was no basis for pursuing the allegations in van Tienen's case because of insufficient evidence she knowingly provided a prohibited substance to Myers and Fogagnolo. The two Tasmanian weightlifters tested positive to benzylpiperazine (BZP), a stimulant, at the Australian championships in Brisbane last October. Myers and Fogagnolo were permitted to compete at the Commonwealth Games trials in December, pending their hearings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport last month. Myers, former training partner of van Tienen, 19, was considered one of the most improved lifters in the country and a potential medallist while Fogagnolo was expected to make the squad. They had bought a citrus-based dietary supplement through van Tienen, then a sales representative for a company called the Fortius Group. The product was found to be contaminated with BZP. Former weightlifter Keith Murphy, the company's managing director, shared a house with van Tienen and her boyfriend Corran Hocking, Murphy's business partner. Hocking, also a lifter, tested positive along with Sergo Chakhoyan to BZP while competing at the Oceania and Commonwealth championships in Melbourne at the beginning of October. Hocking also tested positive at the Australian championships. Their cases are due before the CAS this month. Murphy last year was given a two-year suspended sentence by the Victorian County Court for trafficking and possessing steroids in late 2003. Launceston-born van Tienen, a leading junior competitor, arrived in Melbourne last Saturday. 2 8 - 1 2 - 2 0 0 6 Police linked to sport drug ring
Jacquelin Magnay A VICTORIAN police officer is among those being investigated by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority for supplying illegal sports drugs, including steroids, to athletes. The drug ring is distributing human growth hormone, steroids such as nandrolone, stanozolol, trenbolone and oxandralone and stimulants to a range of sportspeople, including weightlifters. The information has come to light as part of a nine-month investigation into drug use in Australian weightlifting. Authorities yesterday released a statement about the report, which has not been made public. ASADA chairman Richard Ings said chief investigator Richard Young found evidence of organised distribution and supply channels for a range of prohibited substances, including steroids, human growth hormone and the stimulant benzylpiperazine (BZP). Four weightlifters had tested positive to BZP in late 2005 and the conviction of former weightlifters Keith Murphy and Caleb Loades [importeerde efedrine, vermomd als creatine - red.] over serious drug offences prompted the Young investigation. It was previously revealed that Mr Young uncovered links between the drug suppliers and two other sports as well as weightlifting. Computer forensic scientists working for Young are understood to have earlier uncovered data from private computers about possible drug-trafficking links to the other sports. It is believed there is a drug supply ring based in Melbourne, which imports raw ingredients from China and the US and then repackages them for distribution. The drug ring had been creating a network of distributors among athletes and is operated by a person with weightlifting connections and at least one, and possibly more, police officers. The drug ring is being investigated as phase two of the ASADA investigation, with help from customs, the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Victorian and South Australian police. Mr Young, who was one of the principal drafters of the world anti-doping code, found that Commonwealth Games weightlifter Belinda Van Tienen had no case to answer in relation to trafficking violations. While Mr Young found that BZP had been imported into Australia and mixed as part of a supplement that was sold by Van Tienen, there was no evidence that she was aware she was selling a banned drug. Australian weightlifting officials who were relying on the ASADA report to clear the way for the restoration of much-needed taxpayer funding may be disappointed. Sources have confirmed there will be no payments to the sport until February at the earliest. The Australian Sports Commission has frozen more than $360,000 in grants since September 2005. Commission chief executive Mark Peters said it was a misconception that the suspension of funding related to the ASADA investigation. Meanwhile, the Australian Weightlifting Federation board has endorsed an eight-point plan in conjunction with ASADA to protect the integrity of the sport.
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