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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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2 3 - 1 1 - 2 0 0 4 DOPING: IMPORTANT LEAD FROM LOCRIDE BLITZ LAST YEAR
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Nov. 23 - One of the most important leads in the new probe by the Roman magistrature on doping came from Locride, Calabria, with a blitz that is unparalleled in Europe. The work dates back to May 2003, when after laborious work of decoding telephone conversations, the Siderno operation was started, coordinated by the Anti-Mafia Office, which brought the seizure of more than 300 kg of a pure active ingredient of a doping substance. The substance is a pseudo-ephedrine in a quantity that investigators believed was destined to supplying Calabria Mafia clans specialised in the business of doping and the preparation of drugs. It should be emphasised that 50mg of that active ingredient are enough to realise an amphetamine pill, and so those 300kg seized meant taking millions of bills and considerable gains off the market. Thus the belief that the Siderno blitz is the most important of its kind in the European Union. But the blitz was not the only harsh blow from investigators on this market. In precedence, in February 2003, in a pharmacy in central Rome, 6kg of different drugs were seized; in April 2003, in Rome and in Campagnano, 18 kg of doping substances and drugs were seized in a pharmacy and a make shift laboratory inside a doctor's house, as well as around a hundred packages of anabolic substances, such as Winstrol, Deca Durabolin, Testovis, and Stanozololo, which were partly from abroad. Another important operation took place last June in Imola, in the house of a pharmaceutical salesman: 5kg of doping substances were seized. There was another find in September 2003, in a chemical and pharmaceutical deposit in Rome, with the seizure of around 150kg of pure fenilpropanalomine and pseudo-ephedrine. Then there was another blitz in Rome the following month, which brought the seizure of 8kg of fenilpropanalomine and 800 grams of sibutramine, held illegally and ready to be shipped to Roman pharmacies. And in November 2003, in Rome, the police seized 7kg of suspect substances in some pharmacies. All this has an estimated value of 2.5 million euro, while the police found illegal movements in Europe of around 3 tons of drugs used in doping.
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