Doping Inquiry May Hit University Athletes Across Southern Ontario

Football players at some of Canada’s top universities may come under scrutiny by both the police and doping authorities as an investigation into steroid and human-growth-hormone trafficking widens, according to The Globe and Mail. The University of Waterloo banned an unnamed football player from its campus this week, “pending the disposition of legal proceedings.” Doping authorities then tested Waterloo’s entire 65-man team and plans to visit other campuses, amid concerns that athletes at nearby universities such as Wilfrid Laurier, McMaster, Guelph, and Western Ontario may also be involved. The governing body for intercollegiate athletics, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, said in a news release that it is concerned. It began a drug-testing program in 1990, and since then 56 athletes have tested positive.