Nature of steroid metenolone

Nadzeya Ostapchuk, a Belarusian shot putter, won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. But the female athlete was stripped of the medal because she failed a drug test. She was asked to provide two samples. The substance metenolone presented in both urine samples.
If you read news related to steroid use in sports, you must know that professional athletes and bodybuilders are usually caught using other steroids and/or doping products. But when it comes to Nadzeya Ostapchuk, she was caught taking metenolone. It is unusual, according to affirmations of anti-doping officers. What does this prohibited product represent? Why don’t sportspersons ordinarily use this medication for increase of performance?
Metenolone is an anabolic steroid. It possesses slight androgenic properties. It works like testosterone, enhancing muscle mass and adding endurance.
However this steroid possesses only mild androgenic nature, it causes development of sex male features in women. Females that administer this preparation may face usual virilizing effects: the voice becomes deeper; hair grows on the face and on other parts of the body; etc.
This drug may be administered orally or through injections.
Metenolone (Methenolone) produces amazing effects, when it is administered by sportspersons during their trainings. It is not administered during competitions. It doesn’t work, if it is taken only on the day of a competition.
It is also confirmed that it is easy to catch those that use this anabolic steroid.
Side reactions of Metenolone (Methenolone) depend upon quantities that are applied. They include fluid retention, elevated calcium level in the blood, bone growth, excessive hair growth on the body, acne formation, male-pattern baldness, menstrual irregularities, increased libido, etc.
Thus, if you see a female athlete that has deep voice and excessive hair growth on the body, you may accuse her of steroid use. Actually, it is wrong because these troubles may appear also in those females that don’t apply any steroids. But sometimes these effects display that certain female athletes take medications that have androgenic features.