Sean Sherk tests positive for steroids

[Mr.X]

last thread got deleted somehow

Sean Sherk, the reigning UFC World Lightweight Champion, who last competed on July 7, 2007 in Sacramento, has tested positive for Nandrolone Metabolite. He has been fined $2,500. His suspension period runs from the conclusion of his bout on July 7, 2007 through the remainder of his licensing year which is June 26, 2008. Furthermore, he has been assessed an additional 10 days in order to fulfill the terms of his suspension (365 total days). The additional days will be added at the beginning of his next licensing year when he reapplies.

Normal levels of Nandrolone range from 2 ng/mL (average person) to 6 ng/mL (athlete engaged in rigorous activity). Mr. Sherk's reported level certified by the Director of Science and Technology from the laboratory that conducted the tests was 12 ng/mL. Both the "A" sample and "B" sample were tested and confirmed as positive.

[Mr.X]

insteresting info

http://www.thinkmuscle.com/ARTICLES/...drug-tests.htm

The working group, which consisted of Professor Ron Maughan, Professor Eric Newsholme, Professor Clyde Williams and Professor Ed Hillhouse, undertook an experiment which, it said, demonstrated "an urgent need for a full investigation of the factors that can give rise to positive nandrolone tests in athletes."

The test involved three athletes who had been reported as positive for the drug and three healthy volunteers. Over a seven-day period, the athletes trained but did not take supplements and submitted urine samples for analysis, which all proved negative or "at the low end of the normal range." However, when two of the athletes started to take the supplements they had taken prior to their positive tests, one of them returned levels of nandrolone consistently above 10ng/ml, which represents a level five times the legal limit for males.

When the three healthy volunteers were given the same supplements, as were used by the athlete who returned a positive result in the experiment, only the subject who was training was found to be positive. This volunteer's urine recorded a level in excess of 10ng/ml on the second day.

In a statement, the working party declared: "From these preliminary results, we conclude that a combination of exercise and dietary supplements, none of which appears to contain a prohibited substance, can result in a positive nandrolone finding."

[Mr.X]

so athletes can have 10ng/ml +/-
sherk had 12 which is not that far

on the contrary, Gracie had 50 ng/ml obviously juicing..

[Dirty_D]

Originally Posted by Mr.X

so athletes can have 10ng/ml +/-
sherk had 12 which is not that far

on the contrary, Gracie had 50 ng/ml obviously juicing..

That is crazy!!! Worse yet, if he wan not juicing, he got suspended for a year. Now that sucks.

[Dirty_D]

BTW that was some good info in that article on thinkmuscle. Thanks X.

[sicky]

Originally Posted by Mr.X

so athletes can have 10ng/ml +/-
sherk had 12 which is not that far

on the contrary, Gracie had 50 ng/ml obviously juicing..

Think he'll be able to fight the suspesion with that?

[Mr.X]

Originally Posted by sicky

Think he'll be able to fight the suspesion with that?

I doubt it...they have it 6ng/ml top out for athletes