Are there any clean elites? wrote:
Interesting. That's pretty big news - Chebet is not exactly a household name, but a 2X World Cross Country champion is serious business, and another crack in the facade that is Renato Canova's claim that it is only the small-timers in Kenya who use PEDs.
The article says that Chebet and a couple of others were busted for furosemide (aka Lasix). I'd never heard of that drug in a PED context before, but apparently it is commonly used by athletes (illegally) for both its diuretic effects, and to mask other drugs. Here's an entry from the 2010 British Journal of Pharmacology that gives some useful information about it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962812/
There have been busts for it before. I was on it after my SCA and heart surgery but only a few months thankfully.