Unusual case for anti-doping programs

Administration of anabolic steroids and other medications that increase performance is widespread among amateur as well as professional athletes. It isn’t surprisingly, when athletes test positive for banned medications. But there are several unusual situations, when an individual tests positive for many prohibited preparations. Here is a case.
Alexandre Dougnier, a teenage amateur French cyclist tested positive for more than 10 forbidden preparations, including more than 5 steroid metabolites. It was at a race in France in May, 2011. This young person has been sentenced to 3-year ban from competitions.
It was determined that this young cyclist had administrated such steroids, as Anavar, Dianabol and Winstrol. Other steroid metabolites that were found in his urine sample included 3-Hydroxystanozolol, 16b-Hydroxystanozolol, 4b-Hydroxystanozolol, Oxandrolone, epi-Oxandrolone, 6b-Hydroxymethandienone and 17-epi-Methandienone.
This young cyclist was a member of the Parisian Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt. Several individuals notice that Alexandre Dougnier might have been a follower of the club’s doper Jacques Anquetil. This person has been considered to be a famous individual of cycling’s history. He was a member of the club de Boulogne-Billancourt in 1950s and 1960s. He was the first cyclist who had won the Tour de France 5 times. He had obtained also 2 Olympic medals.
Jacques Anquetil used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Moreover, this cyclist defended doping during a TV debate with the French sports minister. He noticed that it was not possible to endure cold, heat waves and rain in mountains during cycling without doping. Jacques Anquetil claimed that only a fool individual would endure this agony connected with the extreme sport of cycling without performance-enhancing drugs. This celebrated cyclist added that drug testing might deprive personal liberty. Jacques Anquetil concluded that everybody doped.
It is important to notice steroids were not so widespread among cyclists in 1950s and 1960s. Usage of more dangerous amphetamines was more widespread during those years. As for administration of anabolic steroids, it has become more enhanced during past two decades.
Let see which affirmations have been said about steroids, when other cyclists have been caught taking them. When the cyclist Floyd Landis was caught applying testosterone, it was argued by his legal team that neither anabolic steroids, nor other performance-enhancing drugs were able to increase performance in cyclists. As for the distributor of steroids Joseph Papp, he didn’t agree with this statement. He noticed that intake of steroids was widespread in elite cycling. According to his words, a person can apply testosterone gels in a clever way without being caught by anti-doping programs: users of transdermal testosterone must take in consideration time of detection.
Alexandre Dougnier wasn’t careful and didn’t put efforts to avoid detection. He probably didn’t suggest that cyclists would be tested for banned preparations at the race in Aubervilliers.