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3 unusual facts about drug test


Carlos Marques

In November of the following year he tested positive in a doping test following a match against Anorthosis Famagusta FC played on 31 October, alongside compatriot Lionel Medeiros.

Jamie Hughes

Jamie Hughes (born 1 April 1977 in Liverpool) is a current semi-professional and former professional English footballer who is notable for becoming the first British footballer to fail a test for a performance-enhancing drug.

Ramón Calderé

After the win against Northern Ireland he was summoned for a doping test, which came out positive.


Drug Interventions Programme

Under the heading "Tough Choices", this included a "Test on Arrest" procedure, a "Required Assessment and Follow Up Assessment" process and an extension of the "Restrictions on Bail" scheme, which was legislated for under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.


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Booker Reese

He signed with the San Francisco 49ers in 1985, but was released before the season after again failing a drug test.

David Solga

In October 2008, Solga failed a drug test, testing positive for the stimulant methylpseudoephedrine.

Jane Flemming

At the Ulster Games in Belfast on 30 June 1986 Flemming, on request of Australian team manager Maurie Plant, infamously provided a urine sample to allow another athlete, Sue Howland, to use Flemming's urine pass a drug test.

Joan Guzmán

In the post-fight drug test after the bout against Davis, however, Guzman tested positive for Furosemide, a diuretic banned by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and the same kind used by Ali Funeka who was suspended for nine months after the rematch with Guzman.

Josiane Tito

Few days before the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Tito was among the five Brazilian athletes who failed the competition drug test for a banned substance recombinant EPO.

Liza Hunter-Galvan

In August 2009 Hunter-Galvan admitted taking the banned drug EPO three times, after failing a drug test on March 23.

Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball

A 1986 Sports Illustrated article stated, "A Lady Techster is likely to be a good student and a devout Christian, probably favors needlepoint over Madonna tapes on airplanes and fears a drug test about as much as she does an airport metal detector." The same article stated that Hogg's insistence that her players act like ladies gave the team an "almost antebellum image" that was well-suited to a conservative town like Ruston.

Lucimara da Silva

She repeated as the continental champion in 2009, but was stripped of the title and banned for two years after she failed a drug test for the banned substance Erythropoietin (EPO).

Manju Wanniarachchi

On 24 October 2010 National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka announced that Wanniarachchi had failed a drug test taken during the Commonwealth Games.

Matthew Spence

However before the season had started he failed a NRL drug test, testing positive for ecstasy.

Stan Lazaridis

His time there was tainted when in January 2007, Lazaridis returned a positive drug test for anti-androgen Finasteride, a prescription alopecia medication, which was banned at the time.

Tommy Morrison vs. Michael Bentt

Originally, Morrison's first defense was scheduled to be against his Rocky V co-star Mike Williams, but Williams pulled out only an hour before the fight after refusing to take a pre-fight drug test.

Traditions of Louisiana Tech University

A 1986 Sports Illustrated article stated, "A Lady Techster is likely to be a good student and a devout Christian, probably favors needlepoint over Madonna tapes on airplanes and fears a drug test about as much as she does an airport metal detector."