Carlos Gurpegi

Last December 11, 2002 in a press conference held for the media, the medical services of the Athletic Club presented evidence based on highly qualified scientific research studies that questioned the sanctioning assumption that specifically stated: “Amounts of norandrosterone 19 over the banned threshold of 2 ngms/ml in urine samples confirm nandrolone use”.
< BR>. First of all, we would like to reiterate that we have encountered additional difficulties in defending this case due to having received the positive test results long after testing the player Carlos Gurpegi in the first match of the League held on September 1, 2002,

From the moment in which the counter analysis showed this case, three months after it happened, our medical services started working on scientific research that was oriented towards interpreting those data.

The medical services decided to approach the team of doctors Galán and Maynar, Analitical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Department of the University of Extremadura, who have published and written several research projects into the matter.

We present the following results:

a) urine samples of the player Carlos Gurpegi were obtained before and after the League game against Real Valladolid in the Nuevo Zorrilla stadium on December 15, 2002. What that study shows is that, in the complete test (the one carried out before the match), norandrosterone 19 is not detected. However, 19 norandrosterone amounts after playing that game was of 7.15 ngms/ml.

b) After seeing this, and following international proven experts in experimental endocrinology, a second study was carried out. The player was pharmacologically induced and later tested after 48, 72 and 96 hours. These tests were carried out last December 31, January 2, January 4 and 6. Carlos Gurpegi’s urine samples before being induced does not show 19 norandrosterone, whereas after 48 hours the amount was of 0,49 ngms/ml, after 72 hours it was of 5,71 and after 96 hours it was of 4,25, respectively. The data and results that have been obtained after several tests on Carlos Gurpegi suggest that the presence of 19 norandrosterone in this player’s urine samples is due to the fact that his own body produces this substance naturally after physical exercise or pharmacological inducement, probably as a result of an androginous metabological alteration at the aromatasas systems levels.

CONCLUSIONS

-The player Carlos Gurpegi has neither used nor has been administered any substance. The player Carlos Gurpegi produces 19 norandrosterone in an endogenous way.

-The Athletic Club medical services and the player himself, of course, are at the disposal of all appropiate governing bodies to have as many tests carried out as necessary to ratify what has been mentioned in this press conference.