[Ygxejxox]

http://www.thedailyforehand.com/2009...ive-for-banned

Announced just after he pulled out of the US Open...

[enurneAcourdy]

I don't agree with it echoing Gasquet, since we don't know the substance yet.

[allvideO]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Czech tennis player Ivo Minar tested positive for a banned substance after a Davis Cup match, officials said Monday.

Czech Tennis Association president Ivo Kaderka said the sample was taken after the Davis Cup quarter-final against Argentine on July 10-12.

Kaderka said Minar was taking an unspecified food supplement that apparently contained a derivative of the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine.

The ITF in London said it had no comment.
The 25-year-old Minar, who is ranked 66th, denied deliberate doping.

"I have never consciously taken a banned substance," he said in a statement sent to the CTK news agency. "This is why I rejected the accusation of doping in my reaction sent to the ITF."

Minar cited an injury when he pulled out of the upcoming U.S. Open on Friday.

Kaderka said he interpreted Minar's decision to withdraw as an "offer to deal with the matter in a professional way," not an admission of guilt.

It's unclear whether Minar will be able to play in the Davis Cup semifinal against Croatia on Sept. 18-20.

Minar, who turned pro in 2002 and has never won a tour singles title, won a doubles tournament in Munich this year with Tomas Berdych.
http://www.tsn.ca/tennis/story/?id=288658

[Grzqbmhy]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Czech tennis player Ivo Minar tested positive for a banned substance after a Davis Cup match, officials said Monday.

Czech Tennis Association president Ivo Kaderka said the sample was taken after the Davis Cup quarter-final against Argentine on July 10-12.

Kaderka said Minar was taking an unspecified food supplement that apparently contained a derivative of the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine.

Pseudoephedrine is a stimulant. It's used in a number of decongestants, like Sudafed.

Minar cited an injury when he pulled out of the upcoming U.S. Open on Friday.

Kaderka said he interpreted Minar's decision to withdraw as an "offer to deal with the matter in a professional way," not an admission of guilt.

Okay - this part is weird. So is Kaderka implying that Minar knew he tested + when he cited an injury as grounds for withdrawing? Why not just be honest and say there's a false positive report that needs to be dealt with, rather than citing an non-existent injury?

[DumErrory]

Pseudoephedrine is a stimulant. It's used in a number of decongestants, like Sudafed.

He took something like Sudafed!!!??? Most likely a microscopic dose of it!!!!????

WHERE IS MY PITCHFORK!?



I am so tired of all these ridiculous "doping" situations.

[payporanymn]

Pseudoephedrine is a stimulant. It's used in a number of decongestants, like Sudafed.

Sheesh, I'm using one for my cold now. Maybe I should hit the courts.

[enurneAcourdy]

I bet the food supplement he was taking didn't have that as an ingredient on the label.

[QRhnNSg9]

I bet the food supplement he was taking didn't have that as an ingredient on the label.

Isn't Sudafed one of those over the counter drugs that's now behind the counter and you have to prove you're who you say you are and have your name submitted to some database or another?

[Grzqbmhy]

Isn't Sudafed one of those over the counter drugs that's now behind the counter and you have to prove you're who you say you are and have your name submitted to some database or another?

Yes, Ti. At least here in the US, they have gotten very restrictive about access to any OTC drug that contains pseudoephedrine, because it is used in the manufacture of speed.

[enurneAcourdy]

Isn't Sudafed one of those over the counter drugs that's now behind the counter and you have to prove you're who you say you are and have your name submitted to some database or another?

Yes. They swipe your driver's license to keep track.

[QRhnNSg9]

Yes, Ti. At least here in the US, they have gotten very restrictive about access to any OTC drug that contains pseudoephedrine, because it is used in the manufacture of speed.

I was stunned the first time I ran into this. My daughter needed Zyrtec and I was wondering why you had to take some card to the cashier. I didn't have my ID with me, it was in the office, and I asked, as a born and bred New Yorker, "WTF do you mean I need ID?" The cashier was nice and told me an ingredient in it is used to make meth. Of course I said "Do I look like I cook meth in my kitchen?" then realized how dumb that sounded and we both laughed. I found out my daughter didn't need that version of Zyrtec and all was fine.
Wonder if Ivo will find a Pamela...

[enurneAcourdy]

If you buy Claratin-D, they only give you 5 pills.

[QRhnNSg9]

Tweakers.

[Grzqbmhy]

I was stunned the first time I ran into this. My daughter needed Zyrtec and I was wondering why you had to take some card to the cashier. I didn't have my ID with me, it was in the office, and I asked, as a born and bred New Yorker, "WTF do you mean I need ID?" The cashier was nice and told me an ingredient in it is used to make meth. Of course I said "Do I look like I cook meth in my kitchen?" then realized how dumb that sounded and we both laughed. I found out my daughter didn't need that version of Zyrtec and all was fine.

A couple of weeks ago I finished a book called "Methland", about a small town in Iowa that has been devasted by crank addiction. There were horror stories in this book, which if you are up to reading something incredibly depressing, I give huge props to.

But I don't understand why in the last few years. meth has become such a drug of choice. We were dabbling in clubs back in the late 70s.

Wonder if Ivo will find a Pamela...

or pull a Coria, and sue Sudafed, or whatever company didn't disclose it.

[QRhnNSg9]

I've heard of that book Moose. I read a review of it awhile ago. Crank is destroying the Mid West and hardly anything is being said about it in National media unlike the crack epidemic that hit the big cities so hard.

[enurneAcourdy]

I wonder if anyone ever wrote a book about the heroin epidemic that hit Plano, Texas high-schoolers?

[insightmike]

Wonder if Ivo will find a Pamela...

[QRhnNSg9]

I wonder if anyone ever wrote a book about the heroin epidemic that hit Plano, Texas high-schoolers?

Shtexas heroin has been back big time for a few years now. I started noticing nodding junkies a couple of years ago on the train and thought I was having some kind of delayed flash back. There was a recent high profile death here in NYC where a rich kid died from a heroin overdose.

That said what happened in Plano? Why heroin and not meth or some other drug?

[enurneAcourdy]

Shtexas heroin has been back big time for a few years now. I started noticing nodding junkies a couple of years ago on the train and thought I was having some kind of delayed flash back. There was a recent high profile death here in NYC where a rich kid died from a heroin overdose.

That said what happened in Plano? Why heroin and not meth or some other drug?

It was late 90's in Plano. The City actually went to the extreme of going to the press and announcing they were Heroin City, USA. Undercover operations, etc. About 20 kids died. Many, many more ended up in ERs. Parents initially said "Not here. Not my child". Pretty much all middle and upper-middle class kids. Mainly white. I always felt the kids there were put under enormous pressure to succeed. It's a very conservative community. The public schools are way better than the Dallas schools. The football teams win state championships. Probably many suburban cities all over the USA like it. But, unlike others, they actually accepted and welcomed the bad publicity to make a difference. And they probably saved a ton of lives.

[Automobill]

Meth is a horrible drug (worse than cocaine or LSD in my opinion), but it's also cheap and easy to make even without any skills or access to a proper lab.

P.S. I have a 50g bottle of pseudoephedrine on a shelf at work. If I was more evil I would search for some junkies...