Tweet Further to our post yesterday regarding the warning issued by the UKAD regarding the substance Methylhexaneamine, the World Anti-Doping Agency has released an update list of prohibited substances. The WADA has included a new section called the Non Approved Substances, this addresses the abuse of pharmacological substances  which are under pre-clinical or clinical development or discontinued.

If you’re interested, you can read more here on the FIG website.

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Yesterday, FIG made public the 2009 statistics concerning the fight against doping in gymnastics. There’s some really interesting numbers in the report, overall it’s shows that there were a low number of positive cases discovered.

In 2009:

The Registered Testing Pool included 179 gymnasts from 36 of the FIG’s 127 affiliated federations.
243 urine samples were collected and tested, 114 of which were taken during the last trimester at the time of world championship events. Out of these 243, 183 were performed in competition.

FIG says that the results …