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QMJHL to Start Drug Testing

DONNA SPENCER | CANOE -- SLAM! | September 14th, 2004

(CP) - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League will introduce drug testing this season as part of its anti-doping policy.

The league came under scrutiny during the 2003-04 season when a Montreal newspaper reported more than a third of the league's players regularly used stimulants, sedatives or Marijuana and a player agent claimed 40 per cent of junior players were using drugs.

Bellatrix; these sound like pretty spurious reasons to me. Maybe it had some thing to do with the WADA, which is literally right around the corner in Montreal.

The QMJHL season opens Thursday.

Commissioner Gilles Courteau said at the end of October and beginning of November seminars would be given to team general managers, coaches, doctors and therapists on what substances will be legal and which will be illegal.

Team management will be required to pass that information on to the players and then random testing will begin.

The list of illegal drugs will be identical to that of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is based in Montreal.

The tests will be conducted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics on Sport. Courteau would not say how many players would be tested.

"It's important to give one more thing to the players just to help them out and develop themselves in a better way in a healthy environment," Courteau said Tuesday from Longueuil, Que. "We don't put this anti-doping policy in place just to run after our players.

"It's my goal to give each and every player the opportunity to develop himself in the proper way. If there is a problem, we're there to help him out."

First-time offenders will be suspended from five to 10 games, "depending on what kind of product the player has been using," Courteau said.

A second offence would result in a 25-game suspension. A third violation would result in a two-year suspension.

The QMJHL is the only one of the three leagues under the Canadian Hockey League umbrella to implement drug testing this season.

"It's going to be a pilot project on behalf of the CHL," Courteau said.

The Quebec league did test players in recent years, but the program ended when the CCES, which conducted the tests, objected to the league's refusal to take sanctions against players who tested positive.

Under the former program, an offender would get counselling on the health dangers of using banned substances, but faced no suspensions or other disciplinary action.

The CCES began testing players in Quebec's triple-A midget hockey league in March.

Bellatrix; *slooosh* Sooooooeeeeeeeeeee!!! Oh, what a sweet, rancid bucket of slop has been dumped on Quebec! Gather at the trough everyone! Check out the WADA website. Pretty snazzy, and the amount of stuff on it is horribly extensive. This is just an example of the Drug War artificially propping up our economy. If we don't undo Prohibition properly it's going to fall apart in quite a remarkable way.

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