Greg Doucette Suspended for Eight Years After Refusing Steroid Test at Local Cycling Race
IFBB pro bodybuilder Greg Doucette was suspended for 8 years after refusing to provide a urine sample following his participation in a local cycling event. Doucette justified his refusal by claiming he did not believe the doping control officer (DCO) was really who he said he was.
William Koehler, a DCO with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), approached Doucette following his participation in the 2018 Tour de Keji. The Tour de Keji is a three-stage race sanctioned by Bicycle Nova Scotia (BNS).
Doucette claimed he did not know the Tour de Keji race was a drug-tested event. He signed up just to have some fun and make some friends. But by joining the BNS, Doucette had signed up and purchased a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) license. This automatically made him subject to UCI Drug Test Regulations and CCES Anti-Doping Rules.
Doucette thought the CCES drug tester was a creep who wanted to see his penis
Doucette was surprised that he was asked to provide a urine sample. Consequently, Doucette thought the DCO was some random “creep” pretending to be a DCO so that he could watch him pull out his penis and pee in a cup.
Of course, this is exactly what DCOs are supposed to do. According to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), athletes are required to “disrobe from mid-torso to mid-thigh” so that the DCOs can have “an unobstructed view of the passing of the sample”.
Doucette reported having unpleasant experiences with strangers pretending to be DCOs in the past. So Doucette thought Koehler was just another creep who approached him because he was a “somewhat famous bodybuilder”. And the DCO bit was just a pretense to convince Doucette to literally drop his drawers.
Doucette told Koehler that he was not going to provide a urine sample because he knew he would test positive for steroids anyway. Doucette had been injecting testosterone weekly for over a year as part of a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) protocol prescribed by his doctor. He did not have a therapeutic use exemption (TUE).
Now that the CCES has banned his from all drug-tested competitions in all sports for the next 8 years, Doucette has decided to continue with his comeback in bodybuilding. Doucette is planning on competing in the 2019 IFBB Toronto Pro Classic Physique competition next year.