Clean Sport Red Flags #3: Thinking Supplements are as Safe as Medications
It’s important for athletes and their support personnel to understand that supplements and medications are very different in terms of regulation and safety.
It’s important for athletes and their support personnel to understand that supplements and medications are very different in terms of regulation and safety.
Athletes should always tell their treating physician that they are subject to anti-doping rules since compliance is ultimately the athlete’s responsibility. Due to these strict liability principles, athletes risk an anti-doping rule violation and sanction, including a possible period of ineligibility, even if they received poor guidance from their primary care providers.
UFC athletes Ruslan Magomedov and Zubaira Tukhugov, of Moscow, Russia, have both tested positive for a prohibited substance and each accepted a two-year sanction for their anti-doping policy violations.
A win-at-all costs attitude can be revealed through various behaviors and by various members of the sports community, from athletes, to coaches, to parents.
UFC athlete Li Jingliang, of Xinjiang, China, has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by him without fault or negligence.
UFC athlete Jim Wallhead, of Loughborough, United Kingdom, accepted a nine-month sanction after testing positive for a prohibited substance from a contaminated supplement.
UFC athlete Carls John de Tomas, of Quezon City, Philippines, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted the standard one-year sanction for his anti-doping policy violation.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has provided recommendations for anti-doping organizations concerning the use of the new generation “BEREG-KIT Geneva” security bottles used in urine sample collection.