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• GERMANY: Hucke Buys Venice Beach Apparel Brand
  Vitamin firm Weider Nutrition International Inc on Wednesday said its Haleko business unit had agreed to sell its Germany-based Venice Beach apparel brand to Hucke AG, a German ...
  United Kingdom - 30. April 2003
  
  
• Muscling in on Big Apple
  Black Country fitness trainer will be flying the flag for Britain when she competes in the world bodybuilding championships in New York next month.
  United Kingdom - 30. April 2003
  
  
• Pianist a bodybuilder: He presses both keys and weights
  Like countless other pianists, Leon Bates can play a Beethoven concerto with ease. But here's where we separate the man from the Rachmaninoff — Bates also can bench-press ...
  United States - 30. April 2003
  
  
• Weider Nutrition Sells Venice Beach Apparel Business Assets
  Weider Nutrition International, Inc. (NYSE:WNI) today announced that its Haleko business unit entered into an agreement to sell substantially all of its assets relating to its ...
  United States - 30. April 2003
  
  
• Ephedra-free products loaded with new herbs of concern
  Some of the biggest names in diet aids now tout that their products are free of ephedra, the supplement linked to heart attacks, high blood pressure and heatstroke. The ...
  United States - 29. April 2003
  
  
• S'pore Bodybuilding Federation contributes to SARS Courage Fund
  The Singapore Bodybuilding Federation is also doing its part to help combat SARS by donating $2,000 to the Courage Fund. Asian Games gold medalists Halim Haron and ...
  Singapore - 29. April 2003
  
  
• Bulgaria Hosts Balkan Fitness & Bodybuilding Tournament
  Over 100 participants joined the Balkan Fitness & Bodybuilding Tournament, hosted this year by Bulgaria. The contests started on April 25 and will continue by April 27 at ...
  Bulgaria - 27. April 2003
  
  
• Father preaches dangers of ephedra
  Kevin Riggins knows what he's talking about when he tells groups across the region about the dangers of the stimulant ephedra. His only child, 16-year-old Sean ...
  United States - 26. April 2003
  
  
• Less muscle means more money for model
  Michael O'Hearn walks with the confidence of a man who knows he's won the DNA lottery: 6 feet, 2 inches tall, 255 pounds, with a perfect T-shape, biceps that make grown men ...
  United States - 26. April 2003
  
  
• Schwarzenegger to make video game debut
  Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is coming back to movie theatres as the "Terminator" this summer, has finally made the move over into video games. Franco-American games ...
  India - 26. April 2003
  
  
• Diet Supplements & The Dangers Involved
  The desire to lost weight is so powerful that millions of Americans are willing put their health at risk. That risk is coming from Xenadrine and other ephedrine-containing ...
  United States - 25. April 2003
  
  
• NBTY Posts Loss After Ephedra Product Charge
  NBTY Inc.'s second quarter profits fell by 23 percent, in part because the vitamin and supplement manufacturer stopped selling products containing the controversial herb, ...
  United States - 25. April 2003
  
  
• USA Luge Joins Coalition Formed to Support Dietary Supplement ...
  The Coalition for Anabolic Steroid Precursor and Ephedra Regulation (CASPER) announced, Thursday, April 24, that USA Luge has joined in the support of legislation regarding the ...
  United States - 25. April 2003
  
  
• Ephedra: Killer Herb Dude!
  Ephedra. If the word doesn’t strike a chord with you, then you haven’t been reading your supplement labels. Products like Xenadrine, Metabolife 356 and Stacker 2 all ...
  United States - 24. April 2003
  
  
• Exum only embarrasses himself with ` Olympic ' ...
  Way back when, before performance-enhancing drugs began to dress up as supplements and before trainers became chemists dedicated to the science of keeping athletes both fast ...
  United States - 24. April 2003
  
  
• Olympic winners face doping inquiry
  Drugs officials are investigating reports that 61 members of the Italy Olympic team in Sydney in 2000, including several gold medal-winners, had abnormally high levels of human ...
  United Kingdom - 23. April 2003
  
  
• Dick backs the hiring of tainted coach
  Denise Lewis's new coach Frank Dick has defended the decision of the Olympic heptathlon champion to work with the man credited with masterminding the biggest  ...
  United Kingdom - 22. April 2003
  
  
• Shamed - drugs in sport
  Three years ago Carl Lewis refused to attend a parade of former champions at the US Olympic trials in Sacramento, California. He said he could not be part of such a ceremony so ...
  United Kingdom - 22. April 2003
  
  
• Homing In on Ephedra's Risks
  On Feb. 16, pitcher Steve Bechler of the Baltimore Orioles collapsed while running sprints at the team's spring-training camp in Florida. He died a few hours later. Subsequent ...
  United States - 21. April 2003
  
  
• Officials forced us to take drugs, says Laxmi
  In a sensational twist to the ongoing doping controversy, Andhra Pradesh athlete Uday Laxmi on Sunday accused the officials and sports federations of forcing the ...
  India - 21. April 2003
  
  
• US Olympic track and field forever tainted by doping
  The phone rang at 6:30 a.m., Seoul time, Sept. 27, 1988. On the other end was Jim Colonna, sports editor of the Orange County Register, and he was not his chatty self. ...
  United States - 21. April 2003
  
  
• India’s Mr Bodybuilding struggling to keep in shape
  For years he was India’s Mr Bodybuilding. Despite the fact that Premchand Degra’s days of flexing his muscles infront of judges have been over more than a decade ago ...
  India - 20. April 2003
  
  
• Officer fired, accused of lying
  A police officer who lied about using steroids and shoplifting has been fired, internal Police Department documents show.Anthony ...
  United States - 20. April 2003
  
  
• Dr. Atkins dies from fall on ice
  A controversial and outspoken doctor who advocated a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet began his path to fame in the Buckeye state. Dr. Robert C. Atkins was born in ...
  United States - 19. April 2003
  
  
• Liberty muscles up
  The Liberty Community Center will hold its annual Southern States Classic Figure & Xtreme Fit Championshipon Friday and Saturday. Men and women take center stage ...
  United States - 17. April 2003
  
  
• Moncton bodybuilder, 73, wants to inspire others
  Most days, Dallas Urquhart looks and plays the part of the quintessential 73-year-old woman. The Moncton woman is proud of her six children, loves her 10 grandchildren and ...
  Canada - 16. April 2003
  
  
• Bodybuilding promoter dies
  Jerry Thomas of Peoria, the promoter of the largest natural bodybuilding show in Illinois, died Saturday morning at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center after an extended illness. ...
  United States - 15. April 2003
  
  
• National Bodybuilding Championship on May 11
  The 5th Servis National Bodybuilding Championship will be held here on May 11, announced a spokesman for the Pakistan Bodybuilding Federation (PBBF) here ...
  Pakistan - 14. April 2003
  
  
• Ottawa man wins bodybuilding championship
  After weeks of weight-watching that would have made Jenny Craig green with envy, one couldn’t blame any of the competitors at Saturday night’s 2003 NPC Mid-Illinois Bodybuilding ...
  United States - 14. April 2003
  
  
• Schwarzenegger to host TV special
  Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has portrayed robots both killing and kindly, will host an upcoming TV special about the screen's top 100 heroes and villains. An American Film ...
  Malaysia - 13. April 2003
  
  
• Posing for perfection
  Ken Schmit demonstrated his own kind of patriotism Thursday night. The audience at Emens Auditorium raved when Schmit danced on the stage wearing a Speedo with an ...
  United States - 11. April 2003
  
  
• Are Americans Finally Ready to Give Up Ephedra Diet Pills?
  The current controversy over ephedra-based diet pills has sent manufacturers of dietary supplements scrambling to find alternatives to the popular herbal compound. Early ...
  United States - 10. April 2003
  
  
• Athlete's New Goal
  Two years ago, Jahn Bernard Smith was on top of his game. Working out three to four hours a day, he was hoping to play professional basketball abroad after graduation from the ...
  United States - 10. April 2003
  
  
• Congress looking into ephedra use
  Congress wants to know more about the use of ephedra products by professional atheletes. Members of the House Energy and Commerce committee said Wednesday they have ...
  United States - 10. April 2003
  
  
• Indian athletes fail drug tests
  Satheesha Rai failed a drug test after the Commonwealth Games Twenty-two athletes at India's national games in December have tested positive for banned drugs. The ...
  India - 10. April 2003
  
  
• Just say no' not good enough
  Top triathlete Dominique Donner laughs when I ask her about drug education programmes and coaches' involvement among South Africa's triathletes. "I haven't had a coach ...
  South Africa - 10. April 2003
  
  
• Wilkins tangled in another web of lies
  The British discus record-holder who was banned for life for doping offences has been exposed yet again as dishonest. Perriss Wilkins recently contacted this newspaper ...
  United Kingdom - 10. April 2003
  
  
• Drugs and values in sports
  Last week, I wrote about the use of caffeine, narcotics and beta-blockers in certain sports to achieve certain effects. Caffeine use is especially popular with runners and ...
  Philippines - 07. April 2003
  
  
• Suits blame ephedrine for major ills
  A Morris Plains woman was watching TV with her son when she suddenly lost consciousness. When she awoke minutes later, she said, she had no feeling in the left side of her ...
  United States - 07. April 2003
  
  
• Anti-doping unit finds six positive from 762 tests
  The anti-doping unit of the Irish Sports Council carried out 841 tests last year including 36 tests for international federations and 79 tests under their “user pays” scheme ...
  Ireland - 04. April 2003
  
  
• Cyclist smacked with doping ban
  For the second time in as many days, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has suspended an American athlete for a banned substance violation. US cyclist ...
  South Africa - 04. April 2003
  
  
• Drug use for various purposes
  Last Monday, I ended my column by saying that the quest to gain competitive advantage, no matter how slight, leads to the discovery of new performance-enhancing ...
  Philippines - 04. April 2003
  
  
• Drugged up, let's play ball
  The American baseball season began in the Florida sunshine on Monday. But a serious drugs cloud still hangs over the sport, as Matthew Engel reports. It is the American ...
  Australia - 04. April 2003
  
  
• FDA warns: Stop promoting products as drug alternatives
  The government has ordered eight companies and individuals to stop offering herbal products such as "Liquid Ecstasy" as alternatives to street drugs.Some contain ephedra, ...
  United States - 04. April 2003