tetrahydrogestrinone

This is actually called tetrahydrogestrinone, but what is it?

CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007 2007

A flurry of tests followed, revealing that the syringe contained a previously unknown steroid called tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), eventually linked to Balco.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

Technically, the drug is called tetrahydrogestrinone, otherwise known as THG, but The Clear is clean name for it when used by dirty players.

SPORTSbyBROOKS 2009

Although many athletes were thrown out for using anabolic steroids like tetrahydrogestrinone THG—now a household name in the United States thanks to the baseball doping scandals of the last few years—not all the doping cases involved steroids.

Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

Although many athletes were thrown out for using anabolic steroids like tetrahydrogestrinone THG—now a household name in the United States thanks to the baseball doping scandals of the last few years—not all the doping cases involved steroids.

Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

Although many athletes were thrown out for using anabolic steroids like tetrahydrogestrinone THG—now a household name in the United States thanks to the baseball doping scandals of the last few years—not all the doping cases involved steroids.

Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

If doping may play a lesser role than it might have done this month in Athens, it is only because allegations about the use of the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone by clients of BALCO, a dietary supplements firm in California, have deprived the Olympics of some of its likeliest medalists -- as well as highlighting the pervasive use of steroids in some non-Olympic sports such as America's Major League Baseball, now dubbed the "new East Germany."

Beyond Baseball: Steroids - here, there, and everywhere 2008

The anonymous whistle-blower indicated that the compound -- tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) -- was similar to other banned steroids, but altered to make it undetectable with existing tests.

Blowing The Whistle On Drugs 2007

According to the indictment, the men allegedly supplied athletes with banned supplements, such as human-growth hormone and synthetic steroids, including a potent new strength enhancer, tetrahydrogestrinone.

THE DOPE ON DOPING 2007

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, in an Oct. 16, 2003, statement, describes THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) as a "designer steroid, which would not have been detectable in normal laboratory testing."

USATODAY.com - Questions and answers on THG and doping issues 2003