Doping Scandal

ITT-Pat

Apparently one of the Scottish players failed a drug test after the Ireland game. News Conference at 11.15

tHE vAGGABOND

must have taken downers and not anything to enhance their game

Sherifu

More bad news for them, they could've done without this.

tunney

Ah sure they are all at it, he just f*cked up his doping protocol, some doctor will be let go for this!

Jackz

One crazy lock?

juvenal

According to BBC it looks like a clerical error;

bbc.com/sport wrote:

A Scotland rugby union player has been retrospectively cleared of failing a doping test after a form-filling error, BBC Sport understands.

The drug involved is understood to be Terbutaline, which is a prescribed asthma medication.

Scottish Rugby will hold a news conference at Murrayfield at 1115 GMT.

More to follow.

Jackz

Scott McLeod

Sherifu

tunney wrote: »

Ah sure they are all at it, he just f*cked up his doping protocol, some doctor will be let go for this!

:rolleyes:

Looks like a form filler will be let go.

toomevara

He's been cleared, apparently some unsanctioned asthma medication..may have been a steroid as an asthma attack often treated with this....

Stev_o

toomevara wrote: »

He's been cleared, apparently some unsanctioned asthma medication..may have been a steroid as an asthma attack often treated with this....

Yup do some research and you ll see a hell of alot of wingers have "asthma"

Amz

There's an awful lot of exercise induced asthma though. I wouldn't be so cynical.

MikeHoncho

Its like the Frankie Sheehan scandal all over again. What a let down.

toomevara

Stev_o wrote: »

Yup do some research and you ll see a hell of alot of wingers have "asthma"

Yes, remarkable that, but in fairness i've got it myself and take a steroid inhaler before any vigorous exercise..it isn't performance enhancing just lets me compete on a level playing field, without it sport wouldnt be an option for me.

Also bear in mind that in the developed world the incidence of asthma (I work with people who have it/contract it on a daily basis...and remember you yourself, could, God forbid, develop it tomorrow) is going through the roof so you'll always have a proportion of guys on a team who are, to a lesser or greater extent asthmatic and take combinations of drugs, usually inhalers steroid/salbutamol to allow them to play their sport.

jdivision

Yes but at this stage would you know you have to declare it? I would and most others would too. I find it difficult to believe that somebody wouldn't have known they didn't have to declare that to be honest

toomevara

jdivision wrote: »

Yes but at this stage would you know you have to declare it? I would and most others would too. I find it difficult to believe that somebody wouldn't have known they didn't have to declare that to be honest

From the BBC website today...TBH I take it at face value, don't think there's anything sinister here at all:

"A statement released by Scottish Rugby said: "The judicial committee accepted that MacLeod's use of the drug was not intended to enhance performance.

"In the circumstances the player was administered the minimum sanction of a warning and a reprimand."

The player had previously obtained a TUE for Terbutaline.


But at the time his current medical declaration form was issued in 2006, he was using an alternative called Salbutamol, as Terbutaline was unavailable.

And MacLeod explained he refers to the medicine by one of its brand names, Bricanyl.

"I actually specified at the time I gave the urine sample that I was taking Bricanyl, so it was quite a shock," he said.

"I thought the main thing on the TUE form was specifying that I have asthma and that I take a reliever. It was just a silly thing like that.

"I've had asthma since I was a toddler and I've never left the house without an inhaler since the age of five.

"I definitely couldn't play sports without having one on me at all times."