Another One That I Was Playing

epidemic nandrolone

in France either, we all know, the footballer did not dope.

But an epidemic of nandrolone spread to the Fall Winter 1997 1998 (5 players tested positive: Guerin, Sibierski, Dugarry, Pouget, Arribagé ). At that time nandrolone is particularly the drug of soccer players. Jacques Lienard, president of the medical commission of the French Football Federation (FFF) explained : "What is highlighted at the controls, they are rather derivative of nandrolone, class of norsteroids. Drugs whose property is to increase muscle mass, used for severely wounded or malnourished. "

Explanation Christophe Dugarry with the case also tested positive a few months later.

Indeed, the player Marseille tested positive for nandrolone during the match OM-Lyon. At the time, he was the sixth player to be suspected of having used. Dugarry not yet followed "no special treatment during the reporting period," stated Joel Costes, the doctor Om .

As for sports, nandrolone can recover after a period of injury. "The drug is anabolic type of football. It does not necessarily take weight, but puts to recover faster and withstand heavy workloads' said a specialist doping Liberation. Another "advantage" of the product: its low traceability. Used in low doses, it is noticeable that a few days in the urine.

Dugarry then announces his defense: "I've always been against any form of cheating and have always shown my disgust of doping. What good is putting my health and my future at stake, which will, hopefully, much longer than my playing career. I would not say never doped myself. I will make every effort to demonstrate the flaws in today's effectiveness of the fight against doping, and my greatest joy is to raise the difference between being positive and doping control. " A refrain known .

Players find positive course, extenuating circumstances and will fare with a few months finally firm suspension. We hear about course, endogenous production of nandrolone (natural) assumption scientifically disproved for forty years, we will discuss the possibility of being doped without his knowledge, energy drinks or chocolate bars doping. We criminalize the validity checks. We will fight on the dosage of the product metabolite in the urine of the player.

Yves Marchand, who was yet again in the medium at the time, already knew the song: "Christophe Dugarry is a fantastic player. It crosses a new trial. We will be at his side. He told us not to have doped. I trust him. It is collapsed. It can be positive without being doped. "