The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced on September 5 that Michael Hooker, of Nashville, Tennessee, is suspended for three years for doping.<\/p>\n
The septuagenarian-near-septarian is a shot putter. The event took place on July 17, 2025, at Milton Frank Stadium in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n
The nearly 70-year-old tested positive for a mesterolone metabolite, 3\u03b1-hydroxy-1\u03b1-methyl-5\u03b1-androstan-17-one, as a result of a urine sample collected at the USA Track & Field Masters Outdoor Championships on July 17, 2025.<\/p>\n
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced on September 5 that Michael Hooker, of Nashville, Tennessee, is suspended for three years for doping. The septuagenarian-near-septarian is a shot putter. The event took place on July 17, 2025, at Milton Frank Stadium in Huntsville, Alabama. The nearly 70-year-old tested positive for a mesterolone metabolite, 3\u03b1-hydroxy-1\u03b1-methyl-5\u03b1-androstan-17-one, as … 69-year-old American track athlete sanctioned for doping: He tested positive for a cocktail of drugs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iz_medija"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16487,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions\/16487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}