{"id":3052,"date":"2013-03-20T23:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2013-03-25T22:33:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T06:33:36","slug":"was-a-tennis-player-once-banned-for-taking-a-drug-supplied-by-the-association-of-tennis-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/2013\/03\/20\/was-a-tennis-player-once-banned-for-taking-a-drug-supplied-by-the-association-of-tennis-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Was a Tennis Player Once Banned For Taking a Drug Supplied By…the Association of Tennis Professionals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about tennis and whether they are true or false.<\/p>\n

TENNIS URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Bohdan Ulihrach was suspended for taking a banned substance that was supplied by…the Association of Tennis Professionals!<\/p>\n

In 2002, Czech tennis player Bohdan Ulihrach (who was ranked as high as 22nd in the world in 1997) was suspended by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for using a banned substance.<\/p>\n

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The substance was Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid.<\/p>\n

Ulihrach had traces of the drug in his system and he was banned for two years, fined over $40,000 and lost 100 points from his world ranking. <\/p>\n

However, in 2003, the ATP discovered that their own trainers had been giving players a supplement that contained trace elements of Nandrolone!
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\nAs a result, Ulihrach and at least seven other players, including Greg Rudsedski, had their suspensions over-ruled and their money and points returned to them. <\/p>\n

I guess it was a bit of a case of “Physician, heal thyself!”<\/p>\n

The legend is…<\/p>\n

STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True<\/p>\n

Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future urban legends columns! My e-mail address is bcronin@legendsrevealed.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about tennis and whether they are true or false. TENNIS URBAN LEGEND: Bohdan Ulihrach was suspended for taking a banned substance that was supplied by…the Association of Tennis Professionals! In 2002, Czech tennis player Bohdan Ulihrach (who was ranked as high as 22nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjWh-Ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}