With one month interval Canadian bodybuilder Julie Coram tests negative for steroids

Embattled Canadian bodybuilder Julie Coram repeated a urine test for steroids one month after a positive test for Equipoise (stories here and here on the original positive).  This time she was clean, leading her lawyer to trumpet her 'exoneration'.  Story in the Winnipeg Sun.

Body building champion Julie Coram says she has been exonerated after testing clean on a recent drug test, but the body who stripped her of a title for a failed test earlier this year is standing by its practices.

FAME World Tour and its sanctioning body, the World Natural Sports Organization, banned Coram from events and removed her FAME title when she tested positive for two illegal substances and other body building agents after a May 24 competition in Winnipeg.

However, a statement issued yesterday by Coram's lawyer said a June 23 sample taken by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and tested under the Canadian Body Building Federation's (CBBF) anti-doping program has come back negative for all prohibited substances.

"We are grateful that the CBBF subjected Julie Coram to a prompt, fair and reliable drug test," said Coram's New York-based lawyer, Rick Collins. "The results were not at all surprising to us. She tested absolutely clean -- she had no traces whatsoever of any banned substances in her sample. Julie has been exonerated."

Sometimes you wonder if lawyers chuckle at their own illogical statements.  Apparently the one month time lapse has nothing to do with the clean urine.  If a crime occurs in May, and subsequently the criminal stays clean in June, does that negate the May crime?   Whatever, the story continues:

In an e-mail, Coram indicated she will keep her Miss Fitness Manitoba title, which was called into question after the controversy. However, the Manitoba Amateur Body Building Association, which issues the title, could not be reached yesterday for confirmation of either that or of the test results.

Collins said he hoped the CCES results may encourage FAME to re-examine its anti-doping protocols, suggesting they are sub-standard.

FAME understands the excretion of a drug, even thought the legal system struggles with the concept.  Rusty Hardin might have hope in vindicating Roger Clemens yet.

But FAME said this test won't change its position on the issue.

"It has no bearing on the test we did ... at the time of the show it came back positive," said FAME producer and WNSO co-president Jeffrey Kippel, adding a lapse of one month could allow substances to leave the body or be hidden using masking agents.

'STAY IN SYSTEM'

"Some of these substances stay in the system a long time, others don't," he said yesterday.

Kippel said Coram didn't ask to be retested by FAME or volunteer any further samples but did send a letter asking them to keep any indiscretions quiet.

Coram provided a urine sample after she won the female muscle model category at the Ainsley McSorley FAME Model Search Championships in Winnipeg on May 24. The sample tested positive for high levels of three anabolic steroids, according to FAME.

Comments

[jamie]

WHAT A JOKE!!

you can clear pot coke and anyother drugs out
of your system in that time frame
Anavar has a short life and would be out of her body quickly
Equipose a little harder to get rid of but i am sure she had some help.
You're still a cheater Julie

[sarah]

Jamie You seem to be an authority on the subject, please enlighten us on how one would mask or clear out those metabolites? you can't just make a statement like that without backing it up

"Exonerated"... lol, your rep is still smashed horsey... you and Craig can just keep dealing your steroids in the gym... until the police nab ya.

And they will!

I can't wait to see that in the paper.

[Scott Welch]

I would love to know what method FAME used to test the athlete in question. If the testing method used was IOC caliber than I think the test results should stand. I am all for "drug free" but WBF, FAME and IDFA should step up the test quality for the top 3 of every class for every show. If all athletes were 100% drug free based on an IOC test, that's a show I'd pay to see and that's a show mass-market companies would want to associate themselves with. IFBB doesn't claim to be drug free but these 3 organizations do. If they are 100% drug free organizations, then let's step up the testing quality so that there's no disputes. I know it costs more but few people "in the know" believe all of these champions drug free anyway.

A few days before this announcement, Julie sent an email to MABBA stating that she would sue them if they went public with positive test results on this second test. Now why would that be?

[Trev]

Does anyone have actual proof or a copy of the email that julie sent to MABBA threatening to sue?
Would love to see a copy of it
could make things very interesting

[just another person]

So Julie calls me after the results come out from fame to say sorry for doing what she did. Julie DID admit to taking some stuff but not all of what they said.
Once Julie beat the CBBF test by clearly masking what she did and the time lapse, she was quick to call me/ and email me that she was clean.
I dont get it Julie. Why would you tell me you were clean when you yourself told me you werent from the beginning? You must be one stupid girl. And to all the stupid people who think that if they train with them they wont be blackballed....you so wrong. I know so many of you have already contacted other trainers but are to scared. If Craig and Julie were your real friends, they wont be upset. But you will soon see like many of people have seen that no longer train with them that once you stop training with them, you will see their true colors.

[Tammy]

Funny,
Julie is "clean"
Wins provincials this year and finnishes second last year...one would assume next step is to go to nationals.
Where was Julie at nationals this weekend?
I didn't even see her show up to support her "girls"

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what does being clean, going to nationals or not have anything to do with anything? tammy you're a tard. seriously now.