The Russians Have Hacked WADA: Leaked Drug Tests/TUEs - Real or Not?

Methylphenidate is a commonly prescribed psychostimulant and works by increasing the activity of the central nervous system.[12] It produces such effects as increasing or maintaining alertness, combating fatigue, and improving attention

Perfect for Gymnasts. Least we know why she is so good now.

I'M SICK OF CHEATING AMERICANS!

BritsRule wrote:

Methylphenidate is a commonly prescribed psychostimulant and works by increasing the activity of the central nervous system.[12] It produces such effects as increasing or maintaining alertness, combating fatigue, and improving attention

Perfect for Gymnasts. Least we know why she is so good now.

I'M SICK OF CHEATING AMERICANS!

Yeah, she takes Focalin, probably along with half of all kids her age in America.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

habs wrote:

LRC just published a post about this:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/09/russians-hacked-wada-want-think-simone-biles-drug-cheat-takes-adhd-medicine/

(The link on the front page is broken right now)

Habs, will you be adding this to your Trackbot dope function?

Well, none of these people are track and field athletes so it wouldn't have any effect anyways.

I did apply for access to the anti-doping database to make that function better about a month ago but never heard back. I'll follow up on that soon.

Claiming to have hacked WADA...

LetsRun.com's story on this matter is published here:

I do not believe that is just a group of vigilantes. Hacking is big $$ business in Russia. So that leaves three options:

1. Fancy Bears is just a Russian government front. (not likely)

2. The Russian government or Olympic committee paid hackers to do this. (possible)

3. This is a bribery scheme. (possible)

The hackers could stand to make a lot of money if they pulled any record with questionable TUEs or positive A samples. The records they released might just be their way of getting the world's attention and saying, "Hey, look what we have." Then when they text Bolt's agent, he's going to listen. (I'm not saying Bolt did anything wrong, I'm just using him as an example of a high profile athlete that would probably ignore a claim like this had they not released the TUEs.)

It's also entirely possible that the Russian government is just pissed off that they were sanctioned.

Whatever the reason, this is very unfortunate for the athletes. Even if they have nothing to hide, it's a huge violation of privacy.

LOL ... 50% use Focalin, yet only 1 in 7 young males are diagnosed with ADHD, so they are are a lot of drug addict kids in your world.

Clerk wrote:

Here is the real issue revealed in the leak. Someone approved the TUE for all of these drugs for Williams:

oxycodone

hydromorphone

prednisone

prednisolone

methylprednisolone

Someone had to approve the 3rd, and then the 4th, and then the 5th, drugs, with no consideration (or maybe even malicious consideration), for what it meant for fairness and managing a clean sport.

You really think she's taking oxy or hydromorphone as a PED? Those are two heavy pain killers.

Do you really think prednisone is a big deal? This website says it's the #3 drug prescribed in the US. If you get an infection, you get the drug.

Methylprednisolone is used to treat conditions such as allergies, arthritis, lupus and ulcerative colitis

Triamcinolone is used to treat a number of different medical conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, arthritis, allergies, ulcerative colitis, lupus, sympathetic ophthalmia, temporal arteritis, uveitis, ocular inflammation, Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, aphthous ulcers (usually as triamcinolone acetonide), visualization during vitrectomy and the prevention of asthma attack

off base wrote:

Even if they have nothing to hide, it's a huge violation of privacy.

It is not a violation of privacy if they have nothing to hide. Have a truly necessary TUE won't hurt them at all. The idiotic stigma associated with use of drugs to be healthy should go by the wayside. BUT those who abuse drugs by getting TUEs, and pliable doctors, need to think twice before deciding to use something. Most TUEs are really not necessary.

There are an awful lot of frightened people claiming privacy violations. They seem to have something to hide.

Nuttin to see here wrote:

off base wrote:

Even if they have nothing to hide, it's a huge violation of privacy.

It is not a violation of privacy if they have nothing to hide. Have a truly necessary TUE won't hurt them at all. The idiotic stigma associated with use of drugs to be healthy should go by the wayside. BUT those who abuse drugs by getting TUEs, and pliable doctors, need to think twice before deciding to use something. Most TUEs are really not necessary.

There are an awful lot of frightened people claiming privacy violations. They seem to have something to hide.

If I exposed that you are on drugs for erectile dysfunction and IBS, you don't thing that would be a violation of your privacy? Get real.

Oh look, another case of one of the fittest and most athletic members of the human species being riddled with ailments and needing multiple drugs for treatment. Again, what a coincidence that these drugs also provide a performance boost.

TUE for HGH? Lol.

off base wrote:

If I exposed that you are on drugs for erectile dysfunction and IBS, you don't thing that would be a violation of your privacy? Get real.

How would those effect your ability to work? Do you think your employer would fire you for those?

Painkillers have been used in many sports. Cyclists actually blamed excessive crashes on Tramadol, another opiate. The CIRC report included several sources discussing the prominence of Tramadol use. And this is current use, not the pot-belge of cocaine, morphine, caffeine, and amphetamines of the 60's, 70's and 80's.

She had 8 TUEs for prednisone, 4 for prednisolone, 1 for methylprednisolone. That's a lot of infections. Just because it is prescribed often doesn't mean it doesn't affect performance? It is banned for a reason...

Are you really skeptical that these drugs are performance enhancing? Where do you want to start? I'll type the search for you...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20122453

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/42/12/944

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20959705

i agree with spencer wrote:

and if you people would READ

go back to goucher telling about how she was already on thyroid meds, and salazar wanted her to take Cytomel, and "she said her endocrinologist strongly opposed adding Cytomel"...... well if she was taking T4 thyroid med, salazar wanted her to take T3 to drop the levels back down so then she could take HGH or some other growth hormone. he was trying to make it so she needed a TUE for HGH...how do you guys not see this. if she got a TUE for HGH and she had one already for T4,...

I'm not sure where you are getting your information. You seem to misunderstand a couple of basic facts about the TUE process:

1) No TUE is required for thyroid meds.

2) You cannot get a TUE simply because you have low levels of HGH.

The WADA rules on TUEs are clear: You cannot get a TUE because you have "low levels" of an important hormone. You need to show that taking the hormone "is needed to treat an acute or chronic medical condition..." Low levels of HGH I(or any other hormone or substance) is not considered a medical condition for the purposes of granting a TUE.

In many cases, you also need to show that the low level is the result of a specific disease. Again, low levels of HGH alone are not enough to prove you have a disease that requires you to take HGH. WADA has six pages of requirements for doctors who are filling out a TUE for Adult Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency. These require an extensive medical history and a variety of blood tests.

In addition, WADA warns:

"Due to the significant risk for abuse of growth hormone for performance

enhancement, these requirements must be strictly followed. The

diagnosis should be confirmed by an endocrinologist with expertise in

hypothalamic-pituitary disorders."

Obviously, this system can is not foolproof, but skirting these requirements is not as easy as you suggest.

Blah blah blah.

Do realise she was prescribed the first lot of painkillers in December 2010, a period right in the middle of long term injury break? I imagine she had a surgery or something, so needed strong stuff. The methylprednisolone was prescribed at almost exactly the same time.

Besides that I see 5 TUEs for prednisone or Prednisolone, only 2 of which were prescribed during a time when she was competing (all these are allowed OOC anyway). All of this over a period of 6 years.

Venus has Sjogren's Syndrome, you'll not that her TUEs are more long term than Serena's whose prescriptions seem to be for a course of a few days.

As I said, Serena and Venus may or may not be doped to the eyeballs, but this is zero evidence that they are. It shows more that they're very conscientious in applying for the correct clearance when they need it.

trollism wrote:

...but this is zero evidence that they are. It shows more that they're very conscientious in applying for the correct clearance when they need it.

Public Relations Bot Outed.

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habs wrote:

Looks nuts. Whoever registered the domain fancybear.net didn't care about hiding his name on the whois):

Registrant Name: Jean Guillalime

Registrant Country: FR

Registrant Email:

jean.guill@gmx.com

(there is more data but I left it out)

Steve Magness has been posting about it on twitter:

https://twitter.com/stevemagness

If this group is any good, that name belongs to a homeless man in France with a low functioning brain. Post Office boxes, addresses of vacant homes, pinged IPs off of major click farms in the Oriental world -- you name it. Article suggests they are from Russia and Russians do have the incentive to expose the USA for doping. We just basically kicked out a bunch of them. But who cares what SM says.

Well, thank you Trollism for deciding what my post is about, for me. I guess my first post isn't about the TUE panel, or the TUE system. And I guess my second post wasn't providing information about the fact that the listed medications are not just normal medications as rojo replied, but that they are indeed performance enhancing.

I guess I was arguing that Williams is doped to the gills the whole time! Thanks trollism.