SINGAPORE: The Singapore sports authority has placed two-year bans on 7 Singaporean bodybuilders for testing positive for illegal drugs during a local competition. The ban will begin immediately, and “is believed to be the highest number of drug cheats sanctioned at one go in Singapore sport,” local daily the Straits Times reported. The 7 were suspended after they failed urine tests while competing in the 50th Singapore National Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championship 2012 in July, Singapore Sports Council (SSC) said in a statement. Muscle growth steroids and stimulant drugs such as clenbuterol were detected, with one bodybuilder's sample containing seven different banned drugs. “They are ineligible to participate, as an athlete or support personnel, in any sport during the period of the ban … all results, medals, points and prizes attained at the event have been forfeited,” the SSC said. While sports scandals are rare in Singapore, with the Olympics currently taking place, Singaporeans are frustrated that doping has arrived in the small Southeast Asian country.
