Unannounced Arrival of Steroid Testers Cause 2009 NABBA Belgium Nationals to Be Cancelled

SteroidsAnti-Doping officials crashed the 2009 NABBA Belgium Nationals Bodybuilding Championships to go through steroid testing. This was not scheduled and so the big competition had been cancelled! The championship was being held at Arsenaal Theater in Vlissingen, Netherlands on Sunday May 17, 2009. Upon the advent of the steroid testers, the 20 bodybuilders competing in this NABBA Belgium sanctioned tournament apparently “fled” the scene!

Hans Cooman, one of the anti-doping officials said that he had never witnessed anything like that and he hoped never to see such a thing again. He further said that doping is common in the bodybuilding world (proved over and over) so it needs to be checked often. Deducing from the flight of the bodybuilders, Cooman concluded that all the bodybuilders in the competition were steroids user.

Cooman also commented that anti-doping officials are often invited by sports federations like the cycling union, but never by the bodybuilding world.

Hans Cooman even charged the organizers of the 2009 NABBA Belgian Bodybuilding Championships by claiming that the organizers intentionally hosted the competition across the border in Netherlands so that they might avoid Belgian doping officials. Cooman said that such attempts are useless as Belgian anti-doping officials are ready to travel to neighboring countries to catch doping athletes and/or aid foreign anti-doping officials to catch Belgian Bodybuilders. But this was the first time Belgian anti-doping officials turned up in the Netherlands.

Cooman said that bodybuilding and doping have been going hand in hand for a long time, and this recent event did nothing to change this idea. Last year 75% of the bodybuilders tested for steroids were positive!

Law enforcement and anti-doping officials rarely paid attention to anabolic steroid use in competitive bodybuilding. But recent steroid arrests by officials in the United States, large scale steroid inquiries in Sweden, and the sudden arrival of anti-doping officials in Belgium hint that they will be monitoring bodybuilding activities from now on.

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3 Responses for “Unannounced Arrival of Steroid Testers Cause 2009 NABBA Belgium Nationals to Be Cancelled”

  1. Aymen says:
    June 18, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    great post bro. really funny!!

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  2. JJ says:
    August 4, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    (I was there)

    Sorry guys, but if you spread the version of a bitter official who has made blunder after blunder in this testing procedure and tries to turn his shortcomings onto us, you are just as short-sighted as the officials themselves.

    It were the anti-doping officials who arrived too early and announced themselves before the first athlete had even signed in for the contest. The word was spread that the contest would not take place. So no one entered and everyone went home and called the few friends and family who would come see the event. The max 50 spectators were advised not to bother coming over. What would you do on a rather small amateur contest (20 participants to be divided over all categories!) not knowing if your nasal spray or if paracetamol will or will not be considered as doping ? The list of forbidden substances is so ridiculous, that you can almost get fined for having a glass of water.

    So no athlete refused any test. No one was oiled in or in tanga. We simply did not enter the competition. And the so-called 300 spectators who had to go home were in fact 3 in total.

    What’s worse; Dr Cooman (the main official) went to the press to spread his twisted version before any conclusion could be made.

    The Kafka-like story continues; not even knowing who was really present, the government officially accused all pre-registered athletes of doping practices for having ‘avoided’ a control. The rules however are clear; an athlete needs to be informed that he is due for a test, once he has entered the competition, by leaflet on the center stage and on the dressing room entrance. No one entered the competition, no one was asked for any ID … Nobody refused any test.

    An unnecessary disciplinary hearing was held jul 06 and all were acquitted.

    Still the government hasn’t harassed us enough; we all just received notice that they are appealing the acquittance ! New hearing at aug 11. Yet another day spent to stupidness of state officials and again some lawyer costs. Organized the day off at work, the government sends another letter that the hearing has been postponed to aug 25. They had forgotten to check if their own people were available. Typical !

    Nice to know: even after being completely acquitted, there is no possible way to get any compensation whatsoever for the loss of time, credibility, nor money. We loose from the moment they accuse us !

    Frustrating how an innocent hobby can turn into a costly which hunt !
    If all government people, starting with the anti-doping official Hans Cooman had done their job as they are supposed to do, the contest would have had place as planned, only a few would have been tested and if there were any, only the ‘users’ testing positive may have been harassed instead of all 20 !

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