Doping in sports CDMT was the key steroid administered to approximately ten thousand
East German athletes as part of a secret doping program, known as
State Plan Topic 14.25, often without them knowing the nature of the "vitamins" they were forced to take. The program remained in place from about 1968 until the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989. In the 1990s, Franke and Berendonk examined GDR archives to elucidate the expansive scope of this operation, which had resulted in numerous medal wins and world-record performances. Following allegations of widespread doping, the
International Olympic Committee reanalyzed samples from the
Beijing 2008 and
London 2012 Olympic Games using the
spectrometric method developed by
Grigory Rodchenkov in 2011 for detecting long-lasting metabolites of CDMT.
Weightlifters and
sprinters in particular were found to have used CDMT. In August 2017,
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones tested positive for turinabol following his victory over
Daniel Cormier at
UFC 214 the month prior.
Colorado Rockies third baseman
Colton Welker tested positive in May 2021 while playing for the
Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes. He was suspended for eighty games. ==See also==