The latest controversy of possible rampant use of performance enhancing drugs of football players marred the reputation of most Canadian Universities football team. This lead to a massive steroid testing of players in four universities to determine the extent of steroid use. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport will randomly test football players for performance enhancing substances and any positive result will be made public. Any violator will surely meet sanctions from the sports organization who has maintained a strong stand against the use of steroids, hgh, testosterone or any other performance enhancer in college sports.

Some players can’t restrain themselves in airing their sentiments on the issue. This is evident in the interview of Christine Rivet of the Record to CFL prospect defensive back Taurean Allen of Wilfrid Laurier. The football player can’t still understand why some football players would take a foolish gamble where it could lead to the demise of their careers and at the same time put them into greater health risks.

Taurean Allen is currently ranked number 8 in the CFL’s college draft prospects and a potential first-rounder pick. The draft will start on May 2. He said that it is better to maintain a clean life rather than resort to cheating by taking performance enhancers. “I don’t know why anyone would get into banned substances. If you cheat at anything in life, it takes away the value of your achievement. If you cheat on a test, you just won’t cherish that A-plus,” he said.

For Allen, the ease of access to these substances also influenced some players to take these drugs and supplements. Some can be purchased over-the-counter as a nutritional supplements but it contains banned substances. “The ease of access is posing a real problem,” said Allen. He suggests that student-athletes must be vigilant. He also added that he would never venture into that kind of stuff. “I don’t want to get into that stuff and develop any dependency on it. I’ll just stick to my regular protein shakes,” said the football all-star player.

Although, last week’s incident only involve 1 football player but the police investigators believe that some football players could be involve in a university wide steroid distribution ring which can be alarming. Investigation is still on going up to this moment. This is also the reason why the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conducted their own investigation to shed light into this matter. The arrested football player of the University of Waterloo was in possession of steroids and HGH when authorities searched his home. He was already suspended.

The university already subjected their football players to steroid testing to dismiss some insinuations that most of their players are using steroids and human growth hormones. “Their entire school is branded in the eyes of some. Even though 99 per cent of their guys are probably okay, stories get mixed up and now people might think everyone must be on steroids,” said Allen. “There’s going to be a lot of questions.”

Other players who are in the CFL’s prospects lists are WLU Golden Hawk defensive end Chima Ihekwoaba, running back Mike Montoya and linebacker Giancarlo Rapanaro. UW Warriors offensive lineman Joel Reinders and lineman Michael Warner are also in the draft list.

Meanwhile, a Russian swimmer was banned by FINA for 2 years for returning a positive result for 2 anabolic steroids. The 17-year-old Nikita Leviakov competed in the national junior championships in Perm last December when she was tested for steroids. Anti-doping authorities found stanozolol and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone in his system. Leviakov suspension will end in Dec. 25, 2011 but her bid in the 2012 London Olympics is nil. The OIC does not allow athletes to compete in the Olympics if they were given a doping ban for more than 6 months. FINA also announced that Chinese swimmer Wei Kun also served his 6 months sanction for a positive result for formoterol, an asthma medication.

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