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Arirang: Park’s positive test a result of banned substance Nebido

An update on the Park Tae-hwan story that’s continuing to develop this week: South Korea’s Arirang News reports that Park’s positive drug test was the result of a Nebido injection.

It had been reported earlier in the week that Park failed a doping test after getting an injection at a chiropractic treatment, and would face a hearing in February.

Now it’s being reported that the injection Park received was Nebido, a commercial brand of the substance testosterone undecanoate, an ether of the male body’s testosterone.

The website for Nebido plugs the drug as a treatment for testosterone deficiency, and it doesn’t appear the drug has any other recognized medical uses besides treating those whose bodies don’t have a healthy amount of testosterone.

The Nebido website also features a section warning doctors that “Androgens like Nebido are not suitable for enhancing muscular development in healthy individuals or for increasing physical ability.”

Park has so far alleged that he asked the doctor who gave him the injection whether it was legal, and was given false assurance that it contained no banned substances.

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Gina Rhinestone
9 years ago

Park should have thought more about ME . I have only recently decided to attend a major swimming event again after a long break & here he is destroying my mini happiness. It really is a blow especially when I declared in 05 that Park could really be something . ( the reply was no he won’t – he can’t compete with the likes of Phelps & Thorpe because he is too short ).

I believe I spotted him amongst the national Korean training squad a few years earlier but with everyone in goggles & caps I can’t be certain . However the program that they were training that day was a high volume mid distance workout which surprised… Read more »

luigi
Reply to  Gina Rhinestone
9 years ago

He must be cursing himself right now for not thinking more about you

Gina Rhinestone
Reply to  luigi
9 years ago

He would have been a lot better off , don’t you think?

luigi
Reply to  Gina Rhinestone
9 years ago

“Think” doesn’t even go near describing it. I know it for a fact.

Gina Rhinestone
Reply to  luigi
9 years ago

You have a language gap & unable to understand pathos .obviously it is more than about me – it is a literary method that uses emotion as an argument but it is not emotive itself .

Something in the line of the Greek Tragedies. I don’t expect americans to get it , but euros are like your currency , really slipping.

aswimfan
9 years ago

Among olympics medals that should have been forfeited:
Mellouli’s 1,500 gold
USA women 4×100 medley (Hardy swam in the prelims)

aswimfan
Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

USA women 4×100 medley gold in 2012 London

JM90
Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

Speaking of that aswimfan, has a decision been made on the Brazilian relay teams from World SC last year that had JOAO GOMES JR. in?

aswimfan
Reply to  JM90
9 years ago

FINA has not even forfeited Efimova’s worlds medals and WRs!!

aswimfan
Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

…or Cielo’s!!!

Dark.
Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

Breeja Larsson swam in the prelims.

Dark.
Reply to  Dark.
9 years ago

I’m wrong.
Hardy swam the freestyle leg.

Joel Lin
Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

You are way off course with the Mellouli comment. That was an instance of taking an adderall to pull an all-nighter during college final exams before heading to an in season meet where Ous swam the equivalent of practice times in a next to meaningless in-training December training meet. The substance is on the banned list, he was forthright about what happened and faced the mistake, and was also suspended from competition for a year. Adderall use like that is fringe recreational drug use, which could also flag an athlete. While I don’t give endorsements for drug use of any kind, the scaled measure of this versus a doping program is not a compare.

Satchmo
Reply to  Joel Lin
9 years ago

Adderall is definitely a performance enhancer. don’t try to lump it in with recreational drugs. There’s a reason Major League Baseball players had to limit the use of TUE’s for adderall. A scary amount of players were being “diagnosed” with ADHD.

aswimfan
Reply to  Joel Lin
9 years ago

Adderall is commonly used as masking agent.

Look it up.

Mellouli is a cheater.

Just because he trains under Salo does not excuse him as not a cheater.
Read up about Efimova,

aswimfan
Reply to  Joel Lin
9 years ago

Also, Joel,

to avoid double standard and hypocrisy, if you believe Mellouli’s lame excuse of “oh, but I used adderrall only to help me study and didn’t know it’s a banned substance”, then you will have to believe every single lame excuses of Cielo’s “the coffee did it to me” to Efimova’s “but the store assistant told me it contains no illegal substances”… etc.

Mellouli was a cheater and robbed Hackett his third straight olympics gold.

NOTHTOLOSE
9 years ago

This could be the straw…too stupid to be true…Pray for him.

NOTHTOLOSE
Reply to  NOTHTOLOSE
9 years ago

*the last straw… Suspension for one year or more could well end his career as a competitive swimmer. It can’t be worse.

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