Emily Abbott Fails PED Test, Is Barred From CrossFit Games
Emily Abbott Fails PED Test, Is Barred From CrossFit Games
Canadian CrossFit athlete and champion of the West Regional Emily Abbott failed a drug test and will be banned for four years, according to CrossFit.
Canadian CrossFit athlete and champion of the West Regional Emily Abbott failed a drug test and will be banned for four years, according to CrossFit.
Although Abbott has never been crowned CrossFit champion, she has quite a decorated history. She finished in eighth place at the Games in 2015 and 20th the following years. She’s been a ridiculously dominant force in Canada, though, basically making it her CrossFit playground for the last few years. The former University of Windsor basketball player will most certainly have her Regional title stripped.
Abbott wasn’t the only one caught, however. Below are the others who breached the policy. The table (courtesy of CrossFit) includes the athletes' names, the length of their banes, as well as, interestingly, the substances for which they tested positive.
| RANK | FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | REG / DIV | BANNED SUBSTANCE | RESULT |
| 1 | Emily | Abbott | West / Indv. | ibutamoren - anabolic agent | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 2 | Dean | Shaw | Meridian / Team | clomiphene - selective estrogen receptor modulator | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 3 | Laura | Hosier | East / Team | higenamine - beta-2 agonist | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 1 | Maria | Ceballos | LatAm / Team | stanozolol metabolites - anabolic agents | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 4 | Andrey | Ganin | Europe / Indv. | exogenous testosterone - anabolic agent | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 34 | Nuha | Almarri | Meridian / Indv. | GW1516 sulfoxide and GW1516 sulfone, metabolites of GW1516 and oral turinabol - metabolic modulator and anabolic androgenic steroid | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 5 | Stephanie | Araujo | LatAm / Team | stanozolol metabolite - anabolic agents | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 28 | Joel | Munro | Pacific / Indv. | metabolites of GW1516 - metabolic modulator | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 34 | Rachel | Campbell | South / Indv. | metabolite of oxandrolone - anabolic agent | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 37 | Kara | Paslay | Central / Indv. | 1,3-dimethylbutylamine - stimulant | 2-year sanction, ending June 2020 |
| 28 | Megan | Benzik | South / Indv. | epimentendiol, metabolites of methandienone and oxandrolone, epioxandrolone, methanol, a letrozole metabolie, and amphetamine | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 25 | Carlos | Castillo | LatAm / Team | LGD4033 | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
| 8 | Gena | Malkovskiy | Europe / Indv. | clomiphene, meldonium, and a metabolite of drostanolone | 4-year sanction, ending June 2022 |
CrossFit obviously has a thorough and intense drug policy, and Abbott and the others suspended here are the latest to get caught.
Update 7.17.18
Abbott has responded to the CrossFit report — and she's not happy:
Those are fightin' words.