well an olympic gymnast named Alina Kabaeva was tested positive for diuretic and got disqualifies.
what is a diuretic and why cant it be used in olympics?
Answer:
A diuretic is any drug that elevates the rate of bodily urine excretion (diuresis). There are several categories of diuretics. All diuretics increase the excretion of water from the body, although each class of diuretic does so in a distinct way.
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In 2001 at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won the gold for the Ball, Clubs and Rope, and the silver in the Individual All-Around and Hoop. Alina and her teammate Irina Tchachina tested positive to a banned diuretic (furosemide) and were stripped of their medals.
Irina Viner, Russian Head Coach and who also served as the Vice President of the FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee, said her gymnasts had been taking a food supplement called 'Hyper' which contained mild diuretics. Which according to Viner the gymnasts were taking for pre-menstrual syndrome. When the supply ran out shortly before the Goodwill Games, the team physiotherapist restocked at a local pharmacy. According to Viner, the supplement sold there was fake and contained furosemide. The commission requested that the Goodwill Games organizing committee nullify Kabaeva and Tchachina's results. The FIG also nullified their results from the World Championships in Madrid, as such Ukraine's Tamara Yerofeeva was declared the 2001 World Champion.
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Original Abbreviated Application # 075241
Approval Date: 28-MAY-99
Trade Name: FUROSEMIDE
Dosage Form: INJECTABLE
Applicant: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
Active Ingredient(s): FUROSEMIDE
OTC/RX Status: RX
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Doping
One of the main problems facing the Olympics (and international sports in general) is doping, or performance enhancing drugs. In the early 20th century, many Olympic athletes began using drugs to enhance their performance. For example, the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Games, Thomas J. Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his coach, even during the race. As these methods became more extreme, gradually the awareness grew that this was no longer a matter of health through sports. In the mid-1960s, sports federations put a ban on doping, and the IOC followed suit in 1967.
The first and so far only Olympic death caused by doping occurred in 1960. At the cycling road race in Rome the Danish Knut Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle and later died. A coronor's inquiry found that he was under the influence of amphetamines.
The first Olympic athlete to test positive for doping use was Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a Swedish pentathlete at the 1968 Summer Olympics, who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use. Seventy-three athletes followed him over the next 38 years, several medal winners among them. The most publicised doping-related disqualification was that of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, who won the 100m at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, but tested positive for stanozolol.
Despite the testing, many athletes continued to use doping without getting caught. In 1990, documents were revealed that showed many East German female athletes had been unknowingly administered anabolic steroids and other drugs by their coaches and trainers as a government policy.
In the late 1990s, the IOC took initiative in a more organised battle against doping, leading to the formation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999. The recent 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that this battle is not nearly over, as several medalists in weightlifting and cross-country skiing were disqualified due to doping offences.
Most recently, during the 2006 Winter Olympics, only one athlete failed a drug test and had a medal revoked. The only other case involved 12 members with high levels of haemoglobin and their punishment was a five day suspension for health reasons.
The International Olympic Committee introduced blood testing for the first time during these games.
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PERSONAL NOTE: I hope this helps with your understanding of what happened to the athlete, Alina Kabaeva. In order to provide a safe environment for the competition, performance enhancing agents (drugs) are not permitted. It reminds me of when they decided to disallow tampering with horses hooves at Walking Horse Show competitions. They used to smear "mustard" on a sensitive area of the skin just above the hooves. The "mustard" was hot and caused the horses to step higher than usual. It was eventually banned for inhumane reasons.
Thanks for the question...I enjoyed the research on this one.
a medication such as Lasix which makes you urinate a lot. You lose water weight temporarily. People take it for heart failure.
A diuretic removes water from the body's cells. It's probably against the rules (I'm just speculating here) because usually a diuretic is combined with something that raises your heart rate. i.e. caffeine.
diuretic is any type of drug that increases urination in the human body. I don't know the circumstances for which she was taking them, but my guess would be, she was probably using them to get her water level down.
The Russian coach always gave the girls a food supplement which contained a diuretic but ran out of what they usually used. So she bought more of the supplement from a local drug store but this supplement was manufactured differently and contained a banned diuretic furosemide. Furosemide is banned because it can be used to mask other banned substances.
A diuretic is a drug used to help the body get rid of extra fluids through urination. It relieves bloating related to pms, relieve fluid from congestive heart failure, kidney disease, cirrhosis and to treat high blood pressure.
If you'd like to read the story, I found it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alina_kabae...
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