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Some Famous Doping Cases
Some famous doping cases in sports are listed below. The period over which drugs are normally retained in the body are also mentioned.
| The Famous Case | Drug Taken | Duration of Retention of Drug |
| Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer was given a two year ban in 2006 for testing positive for nandrolone. Shoaib was sent back to Pakistan and missed out competing for the Champions Trophy. | Nandrolone | 18 Months |
| Former three time champion James Toney tested positive for boldenone and stanozolol after a fight costing him the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavy weight championship. | Boldenone | 18 Months |
| Barry Bonds, the greatest baseball player of USA was banned from playing in the year 2011. | Methenolone | 9 Months |
| Eight track runners from Monaco including Bulgarian sprinter Inna Eftimova have been banned from London Olympics 2012. | Testosterone mix | 3-6 Months |
| Several successful athletes and professional bodybuilders have come forward and admitted long-term methandriol use before the drug was banned, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sergio Oliva. | Methandriol | 3-6 Months |
| USA Baseball champion Barry Bonds, athlete and track superstar Marion Jones, and Garry Sheffield the famous baseball player along with boxer Shane Mosley confessed using oxymetholone orally. | Oxymetholone | 1-1.5 Months |
| On Monday, May 7 2012, Major League Baseball suspended the San Francisco Giant’s reliever Guillermo Mota for 100 games after he tested positive for the performance enhancing drug, clenbuterol. | Clenbuterol | 1-2 Weeks |
| Ben Johnson lost his gold medal against Carl Lewis in 1980 Olympics Games after testing positive for stanozolol after the games. | Stanozolol | 10 Days |
Reference:
- ATHLETE GUIDE TO THE 2020 PROHIBITED LIST - (http://www.usantidoping.org/files/active/what/usada_guide.pdf)
