I just saw the Facebook post of a very highly respected female AG athlete acknowledging that she is serving a 6 month ban after ingesting salt tablets contaminated with ostarine.
The contamination issue with a basic product like salt tablets is serious. I hope that this latest case will create the opportunity to reveal which company/salt products are contaminated and untrustworthy.
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
x2. Public information.
The AG triathlete is Liz Waterstraat.
Btw, not sure if this release from USADA a few weeks ago was posted to ST… it highlights and warns about the proliferation of ostarine contamination in supplements.
https://ufc.usada.org/usada-resolves-four-ostarine-cases-under-ufc-anti-doping-policy/
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
Forget that, name the supplement!
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
Forget that, name the supplement!
Forget that, name the supplement ONLY if it’s listed on a specific dbase for the purpose, which USADA provides.
Manufacturer isn’t named publicly (yet) – hooray, litigation.
I know… I really hope that this case will bring to light the company whose products are contaminated. I realize that it’s a legal situation but it’s distressing that it could be a product that a large number of athletes are taking.
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
Forget that, name the supplement!
If it doesn’t say Informed Choice/Informed Sport, or have an NSF Certification, the likelihood of your shit being contaminated is high. Informed Choice/Sport is that harder one. NSF is just using NSF facilities.
the problem is that it’s not all one product (brand name). fillers fill for many different companies.
Meh. Contamination, while real, is just another excuse. Funny how Gerdes got skewered but this poor AG racer is the victim. Why was she tested in the first place?
Podium at AG Nationals if my memory serves me correctly.
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
Forget that, name the supplement!
Forget that, name the supplement ONLY if it’s listed on a specific dbase for the purpose, which USADA provides.
If USADA were really serious about that database, they wouldn’t hide it behind a lockbox login page (and it keeps erroring out when I try to create an account).
I’d argue that a significant proportion of the triathlon community, including myself, believes that Beth was a victim of contamination, similar to this case with an AGer.
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
Forget that, name the supplement!
Forget that, name the supplement ONLY if it’s listed on a specific dbase for the purpose, which USADA provides.
Any idea how regular humans can access this dbase?
If its on facebook and the athlete is accepting the situation, can you please name the person?
Forget that, name the supplement!
Forget that, name the supplement ONLY if it’s listed on a specific dbase for the purpose, which USADA provides.
If USADA were really serious about that database, they wouldn’t hide it behind a lockbox login page (and it keeps erroring out when I try to create an account).
yeah. it’s broke. i called them, got voicemail. i emailed them, have gotten no response.
Long course nationals, I think.
I’d argue that a significant proportion of the triathlon community, including myself, believes that Beth was a victim of contamination, similar to this case with an AGer.
Agreed.
Nothing else makes any sense to me.
Finally got to see the usada list, past the log in page, but dang usada sure likes to make it hard.
Interesting, the only salt product I could see in a quick scan/search was ‘carbopro metasalt’. The contaminant? Ostarine, of course.
A quick search and, … guess what?
Tons of triathlon retailers sell it.
Finally got to see the usada list, past the log in page, but dang usada sure likes to make it hard. Interesting, the only salt product I could see in a quick scan/search was ‘carbopro metasalt’. The contaminant? Ostarine, of course. A quick search and, … guess what? Tons of triathlon retailers sell it.
i’m going back and forth with USADA now. personally, i don’t understand why that dbase is hidden behind a user/pass. but if it’s going to be, credentials need to work.
i have some sympathy for manufacturers. if you use a cGMP lab, then, what else are you supposed to do? what’s your due diligence you’ve left unperformed? now, if you’re not using a cGMP lab, okay. perhaps you deserve what you get. but otherwise…