Lee Chong Wei ( 李宗伟 )

eaglehelang said:
“Finally, the hearing date has been fixed. I’d love to take Mew Choo and my son along to Amsterdam but my wife is five months’ pregnant with our second child,” said Chong Wei.

“The last five months have been difficult (since he was informed of his doping offence by BWF on Oct 1). I’ve been down with injuries in my career before but I’m still struggling to come to terms with the fact that I’ve failed a dope test,” said Chong Wei.
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Apparently he didn't waste his time upon hearing the news.
 
Are there any use of Dexa which would be performance enhancing in badminton? Or is it 100% sure that this is simply "bad management" from his physisist/medicin team after treatments, not being aware that it could be traced after so long time, and not giving notice of the use of the substance before the tournament?

Could it be used as a masking agent?
 
FeatherBlaster said:
Are there any use of Dexa which would be performance enhancing in badminton? Or is it 100% sure that this is simply "bad management" from his physisist/medicin team after treatments, not being aware that it could be traced after so long time, and not giving notice of the use of the substance before the tournament?

Could it be used as a masking agent?
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Performance enhancing - in large doses, it can make a person feel very energetic. This effect would only last up to about 24-36h after the last dose. The levels of drug in the urine would be crazily high for this scenario. Since dexamethasone causes muscle wasting if taken regularly, any athlete would have a performance detriment if using dexamethasone regularly. What some people may misunderstand is that dexamethasone is definitely not the same as an anabolic steroid.

Masking agent - almost a categorical no.

Bad management - expect that's what the lawyer is probably going to try and prove.


I see some people argue for guilty of intent to cheat given the presence of a banned drug. I don't agree with that. You get cases of people killing another person - not all will get the same punishment.
 
FeatherBlaster said:
Are there any use of Dexa which would be performance enhancing in badminton? ..........
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Because of Dexamethasone, a synthethic glucocorticoids (GCs) has scientifically proven does has an ergogenic action to human is why WADA is still banning it (and all the other GCS) and remain it on it's current 2015 WADA list of banned substances.

Many sports federation for this past many years has insisted that GCs should be removed from the WADA list since it's usage has not shown any scientific evidence that meet WADA criteria for it to be list as a banned substance which include those used substances should shown evidence to enhances sports performance, evidence that its usage would cause health risk to the athlete and lastly its usage would violate the spirit of sports.

However, scientific studies does shows evidence that GCs usage in sports does improves athletic performances as well as health risk in long term usage as what been written by Dr Martin Duclos from the Department of Sports Medicine and Functional Exploration, CHU, France in 2010 titled Evidence of Ergogenic Action of Glucocorticoids as a Doping Agent Risk:

http://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&r...s9flW8DKQIDYB9SBQ&sig2=kpUNXSUa0hZdK1_6qgvvRw

SS
 
Cheung, SS,

That's about how I see it as well. The substance is in the category of substances that you can get exceptionel for using, if Declare pre tournament, right? And the dose found emphasizes LCW's

That will
 
So he clearly have a good case of showing no misuse intensions.

Thus it would be a matter of sentencing as you say Cheung. Not all crimes are punished the same - primarily due to different intensions. Punished he should be, because there are no doubt that he violated the rules.

As I see it, the only thing that can undermine his case, is if the substance could have other effective, such as a masking agent. In that case, even his defence of showing a non-cheating intent combined with a non performance enhancing dose, has no merits.

I hope that they settle for a punishment of 6-12 months. Enough for everyone to know that you can not cross the line, and you are personally responsible for the substances you consume. But not enough to end the career of a highly regarded top athlete, who clearly isn't guilty of trying to cheat.
 
FB,

Yes, dexamethasone is allowed if declared pre-tournament. AFAIK, LCW did not submit the declaration of use pre-tournament. If he did, this wouldn't be happening to him.
Does the level in the urine support his claim of medicinal use i.e. low levels? We don't know that information.

I think since it is allowed out-of-competition, it isn't tested for in out-of-competition random urine samples. This is definitely a loophole in the procedures by WADA. If it sets different standards for testing in and out of competition, the potential for errors by players and their support staff is increased.

The paper that SS has linked, as a scientific review, is very opinion based - the selection of articles was not systematic. i.e. what was the search strategy for research papers in electronic research database?

I do note that the doses of steroids (prednisolone) used that support ergogenic effects in human studies (that were quoted) were very high. Lower doses of steroids were not found to have ergogenic effects.

Although that author also quotes some animal studies, I place little emphasis on animal effects as time and time again, many animal studies do not extrapolate well to the human scenario (for the interested person, this field is called 'evidence based medicine').

Personally, I think nine-twelve months is sufficient if he had no intention. 24 months is for cheating. Some have argued that a person's right to hasten recovery is cheating. The International Olympic Committee are very clear that athletes have the right to health first and foremost. So, recovery back to your baseline is not a crime (after all, all us layman do that as well by taking medicines) and is not cheating.
 
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Indeed the findings was an opinion based study and such evidence based medicine facts are most likely being tailored to strengthen the fact why WADA wants GCs in their list of in- competition banned substances. However it is very interesting to know that fact that at a high dose of systemic administration, a catabolic steroid such as GCs can have ergogenic effect to human which most people thought that such enhancing effects are purely derives from anabolic steroid.
 
How come we don't have any news on LCW? The communication on this case is not good, LCW or BAM should do better on that
 
I suppose no news is good news while pending the hearing. LCW's lawyer and team are sure to keep their cards close for now.

Meanwhile snippets of news of LCW continuing his training is a good sign of confidence.
 
BWF's granting a wild card to LCW would be a black eye for badminton, for thumbing the nose at Anti-Doping. That would put the sport of badminton at peril when the review of Olympic events comes up.

Assuming the suspension will be off, it is certainly within BAM's power, if they do want to send LCW ahead of the other Malaysia Players. BAM can say that the highest ranked Malaysian will definitely go, and the other spot is reserved for LCW. That would not be an unreasonable thing to do. That would be a good compromise for badminton.
 
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