“Bulgaria withdraws lifting team

Bulgaria’s Weightlifting Federation has withdrawn its team from this summer’s Beijing Olympics after 11 lifters failed a drugs test. The Federation said eight men and three women had tested positive for the banned substance methandienon. The weightlifters were tested during a training camp earlier this month while preparing for the August Games. “The federation decided to withdraw the weightlifting team - men and women -from the Olympics,” read a statement.”

Taken from the BBC Sport Website

Flaming heck! why stop there - i think they need to look at the whole set up. Doctors, trainers and athletes! That must be a serious amount of dope flowing around the changing rooms! Do the women know what room to change in?
I think its time to have a sweepstake on how many doping offenses there are at the Olympics - already one of the Chinese swimmers has been busted and now this!

I can’t belive that there are so many athletes taking this stuff - i know some of them say ‘my doctor told me to’ or ‘I didn’t know’ : That doesn’t cut it - I think that they are also adults and should know better!

Maybe Grant Naylor had a point when they wrote ‘Better Than Life’ - maybe we should have genetically modified games!

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