Kenya Rugby 7's: Steroids

[nickdnz]

Steroids have been found in supplements given to players on Kenya's fast-improving rugby sevens team, according to a report that calls for disciplinary proceedings against head coach Paul Treu and five members of his staff.

The report by a task force set up by the African nation's government to investigate allegations of doping in Kenyan sport said there were ''strong suggestions'' that Treu of South Africa and his assistants have violated anti-doping rules after introducing the supplements to players.
There was ''a concoction they (the coaches) gave players to drink at the beginning and end of training,'' Moni Wekesa, the chairman of the task force that investigated, said.
The report said the Kenyan players would stop taking the supplement a few days before competing.
Wekesa said that tests performed on the supplements in January were positive for steroids, and the Kenya Rugby Union was immediately informed. The KRU then handed over all the supplements and stopped giving them to players, Wekesa said.
The report said that Treu, who coached South Africa to the IRB Sevens Series title in 2009 and joined Kenya's team as head coach last year, introduced new supplements to the team after arriving.
''Samples of these were retrieved from the union and subjected to laboratory analysis and were found to contain steroids,'' the report, which has been made public, said.
Kenya's team plays on the top-level world sevens series.
The report said Treu, strength and conditioning coach Graham Henry, assistant coach Felix Ochieng, attack coach Zangqa Vuyo and conditioning coaches George Kimani and Michael Owino should be ''subjected to a disciplinary process'' by regional anti-doping authorities. It also suggested the nation's 15-a-side rugby head coach and assistant coach face anti-doping disciplinary procedures.
The report has been sent to Kenya's government, which commissioned the investigation, and the World Anti-Doping Agency's regional office in Cape Town, South Africa, Wekesa said.
The investigation by the task team initially focused on Kenya's No 1 sport, athletics, after German broadcaster ARD alleged widespread doping in the East African nation's world-beating runners in a documentary aired in 2012. Kenya came under pressure from WADA to investigate after a spike in positive doping tests by its athletes in recent years.
Wekesa's report also found problems in anti-doping measures in Kenyan athletics, football and other sports.
''It came out that a lot of prohibited substances, some recreational, others sophisticated, are commonly abused across all sports,'' the report said.
- AP

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/sevens/10641526/Kenya-rugby-sevens-steroid-concoction-find

 

[smartcooky]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/sevens/10641526/Kenya-rugby-sevens-steroid-concoction-find

"The report said Treu, strength and conditioning coach Graham Henry, assistant coach Felix Ochieng..."

Graham Henry has nothing to do with the Kenya Sevens team.

Their strength and conditioning coach is South African Graham Bentz


Ted will be grumpy if he reads that!

 

[TRF_heineken]

I can't help but to laugh. Since Treu took over at Kenya, the team has been underperforming in some tournaments and now he tried to dope them and get physically better. How stupid of him to think he'll get away with this...

It does however raise the question, did he do the same when he was with the Blitzbokke??

 

[nickdnz]

"The report said Treu, strength and conditioning coach Graham Henry, assistant coach Felix Ochieng..."

Graham Henry has nothing to do with the Kenya Sevens team.

Their strength and conditioning coach is South African Graham Bentz


Ted will be grumpy if he reads that!

Haha, I missed that!

 

[squirrel]

Who's responsibility is it to catch dopers?

 

[TRF_heineken]

who's responsibility is it to catch dopers?

wada

 

[smartcooky]

Haha, I missed that!

I emailed stuff.co.nz and told them about it and they have now fixed ity

Got a nice email back thanking me for the feedback

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

I'm very much inclined to believe Treu here. I was surprised to hear these allegations in the first place TBH; Treu always struck me as a straight arrow and it's not like Kenya 7's comes with more pressure than SA 7's would've. Best of luck to him.

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Sevens/Treu-denies-doping-claims-20141022

Johannesburg - Doping allegations against Kenya rugby sevens team coach Paul Treu and his staff are unfounded, Treu said on Wednesday.The South African-born coach, who successfully coached the Springbok Sevens for nine years, was accused by the Kenyan government's Anti-Doping Task Force of giving the team supplements and "concoctions" that contained banned substances.
"Treu was actually responsible in introducing a "no-supplement policy" when he arrived in Kenya to take over coaching the Sevens team in November 2013," the Kenyan Rugby Union said.
"When I arrived, players were taking typical off-the-shelf supplements. We decided -- as we'd done in South Africa -- to not endorse or advocate taking supplements of any kind, preferring to focus on proper nutrition," Treu said.
The Kenyan government's task force, led by Professor Moni Wekesa, completed its initial report in April this year. It was recently handed over to the Secretary of Sports, Arts and Culture, Hassan Wario.
Head of the Kenyan Rugby Union (KRU), Mwangi Muthee, in a statement released on Tuesday accused the task force of shoddy and misinformed work.
Treu said there had been a lack of transparency around the report, which he had not seen, and he questioned the credentials of the task force investigators.
The International Rugby Board did not recognise the agency, according to Treu.
"We know the risk of supplements as we know how easily they can cause athletes to fail tests," Treu said.
"During my time with South African rugby, we had a strict supplement policy, developed in conjunction with scientists and dieticians, specifically for this reason.
The supplement at the heart of the controversy, Evox, was brought in by the Kenyan Rugby Union a year ago, before Treu started as the Sevens coach he said.
"They handed over the supplement to the government investigators at the end of 2013. The players themselves weren't tested."
Treu said he and his coaching staff were not interviewed nor requested to provide answers to queries and they would welcome an independent investigation.
"I believe in transparency so I urge the task team to release the full report and the laboratory tests done on the supplement.
"It is incumbent on them to make public the names of the drugs, the amounts they found in the product, their benefits, if any, and their side effects so the sports industry is made fully aware of all the issues involved," Treu said.
"The comments by Professor Wekesa were highly defamatory and we, as the Kenya Sevens management, reserve all our rights," Treu said.

 

[ratsapprentice]

"Steroids" - highly doubt they ingested anything containing steroids... that **** will **** up your insides in the blink of an eye.
May have been banned substances, but I highly doubt there were any roids involved.

 

[lucky number 7]

"Steroids" - highly doubt they ingested anything containing steroids... that **** will **** up your insides in the blink of an eye.
May have been banned substances, but I highly doubt there were any roids involved.

Steroids are rife in the game. they don't **** you up internally if taken correctly and you get your bloods done by a doctor and know what you're doing. However steroids taken orally however will **** up your kidneys and liver at surprisingly quick speed for the most part , which leads me to believe that these guys weren't on real gear so much as a banned substance as you're saying.

I've never ran a cycle myself but once I'm done playing ball I reckon I'll give it a go.