A French cyclist tested positive for over 5 steroid metabolites

Administration of anabolic steroids and other medicines which enhance performance is widespread among amateur and professional sportspeople. It isn’t surprisingly, when sportspersons test positive for forbidden medicines. But there are certain unusual situations, when an individual tests positive for many prohibited drugs. Here is a situation.
Alexandre Dougnier, a teenage amateur French cyclist tested positive for more than 10 prohibited products, including over 5 steroid metabolites. It was at a race in France in May, 2011. This person has received 3-year ban from competitions.
It was defined that this person had taken 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 amateur cyclist was a member of the Parisian Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt. Certain individuals note that this amateur cyclist might have been a follower of the club’s doper Jacques Anquetil. This person has been claimed 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 administrated steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Furthermore, 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. He mentioned that only a fool person would endure this agony connected with the extreme sport of cycling without performance-enhancing drugs. This famous cyclist added that drug testing might deprive individual liberty. Jacques Anquetil said that everyone doped.
It is important to mention steroids were not so widespread among cyclists in 1950s and 1960s. Administration of more dangerous amphetamines was more widespread during those years. As for usage of anabolic steroids, it has become more widespread 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 claimed by his legal team that neither anabolic steroids, nor other performance-enhancing drugs were capable to increase performance in cyclists.  As for the distributor of steroids Joseph Papp, he didn’t agree with this statement. He noticed that administration of steroids was widespread in elite cycling. According to his words, a person can take testosterone gels in a clever way without being detected by anti-doping programs: users of transdermal testosterone must take in consideration time of detection.
Alexandre Dougnier wasn’t cautious and didn’t put efforts to avoid detection. He probably didn’t suppose that cyclists would be tested for forbidden medicines at the race in Aubervilliers.