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Sadly the rules aren't that black and white.
My somewhat limited understanding is that nandrolone is like a building block, you test positive from the side effects rather than it per se.Not that I've seen that's what is so frustrating little bits have been leaked and reported on at different times. If you find anything I'd also like a better understanding.
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My somewhat limited understanding is that nandrolone is like a building block, you test positive from the side effects
They test for metabolites. I'm assuming the reagent used to test for nandrolone metabolites also reacts with testosterone metabolites (the two parent molecules are very similar, and the active group which causes the physiological effect is the same and also the one you'd want to detect) Having found high levels of metabolites, you need to do further analysis to determine the parent molecule, usually mass spectrometry which is expensive. If he tested over the limit for metabolites, and absent any further testing, he took nandrolone or testosterone, or he has freakishly high endogenous testosterone. If his adverse analytical finding is from eating a hundredweight of pigs' bollocks, then he's still bang to rights since that amounts to doping by abnormal consumption of something which would be a foodstuff in smaller quantities.
gbj_tester
I don't get it though, the rules are clear - it doesn't matter where the substance comes from, if it's in you and you test positive for it, you are banned. How can there be argument about that?
Is there a proper report anywhere, I'm curious now.