I just read that the Turkish weightlifter Halil Mutlu, one of contemporary weightliftings’s greats, tested positive for “nenadron.” Mutlu won three golds at the recent European championships in Bulgaria. He now faces a possible two year suspension from competition.
Mutlu dismisses suggestions that the Bulgarians might have tampered with anything, and instead asserts that he was set up by “some people from within.” There may be something to this. The chairman of the Turkish weightlifting federation was recently ousted following a heated internal power struggle, and setting up Mutlu could be payback of sorts.
According to what I read, “nenadron” is a cortisoid medication, and is permitted if prescribed by a doctor for an injury.
Does any one know anything about “nenadron” and what it might be used for, either licitly or illicitly (e.g. as a masking agent maybe?)
I just came across another news item related to Mutlu’s testing positive for banned substances. This one identifies the substance as “nandrolone,” aka “Deca-Durabolin.” That most assuredly is not a mere cortisoid for reducing inflammation.
This would seem to make it more likely that Mutlu was set-up in some fashion. It would seem to be a no-brainer that the use of nandrolone would be easily detected. It has been around for a while, and from what I have read, nandrolone has a long half-life, and that would make it easier to detect, right?
Mu guess is that no semi-intelligent athlete would use nandrolone if he knew he would be tested at the international level. Is this guess correct, or do elite athletes still use it?
I can’t imagine that many athletes would risk using Deca. It’s one of the most popular steroids, right? And Deca, by itself, would be really, really hard on your system. If one runs Deca and knows what’s good for him, he’ll run Test with it or risk a whole lot of problems. Plus, from what I’ve read, Deca can remain in your system for months and months, which again, would make it moronic for a drug-tested athlete to use it.
[quote]SiCLoGiC wrote:
I can’t imagine that many athletes would risk using Deca. It’s one of the most popular steroids, right? And Deca, by itself, would be really, really hard on your system. If one runs Deca and knows what’s good for him, he’ll run Test with it or risk a whole lot of problems. Plus, from what I’ve read, Deca can remain in your system for months and months, which again, would make it moronic for a drug-tested athlete to use it.[/quote]
I’m not sure i know what you mean when you say Deca is really hard on your system, when it’s actually very gentle and heals you up nicey. It’s only it’s metabolites that stay for 6-18 months, meaning that there’s nothing active in your system, just your fat cells releasing the metabolites, tiss all. Recent studies have shown that some athletes will test negative as soon as 3 months, some 6 others 12.
Now deca can be hard on the HPTA. It can literally supress you for a year or more before full recovery so perhaps this is where you were heading with it. One thing i’ve noticed is that when people don’t respond well to test, they respond very well to deca and vice versa.
This has got set-up written all over it, IMO. It would be so easy to spike a vial of test with Deca osr swap a Deca amp with an test amp. Considering most of these guys are incredible boozers, they lend themselves over to be slipped a nandrolone mickey rather easily if they piss off the wrong person. Hell, there are a couple of holier-than-thou, all-drugs-are-evil even-though-I-used-them-to-set-my-own-American-records scumbags I would love to do this to myself, so I can easily see the scenario played out.