Ismael Ureña, a 14-year-old teenager who dreamed of playing in the major baseball leagues, has died from a steroid injection. anabolics for horses, as described by his lawyer in the Dominican Republic. The event occurred last August and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Caribbean country has opened an investigation that points to the boy’s coach.
The young player had been training at coach Yordy Cabrera’s Baseball Academy and was forced to leave the program after he began to experience complications from the boldenone, The Diario Libre newspaper of the Dominican Republic reported this Thursday.
Boldenone is a anabolic steroid which increases nitrogen retention, protein synthesis, increases appetite and stimulates the release of erythropoietin (EPO) in the kidneys.
Boldenone only has one permitted veterinary use, although as a doping element it is widely used for greater performance in racehorses. It is also widely used in bodybuilding and other sports to increase physical performance. Banned by the World Anti-Doping Code, it is considered a doping substance.
According to the family lawyer’s version, Ureña had complained to his older brother that he could not feel his legs. The whites of his eyes turned yellowish and the tone of his urine was red like blood.
His mother, Iris Pérez, said she begged her son to stop training at the academy and then took him to a local doctor’s office, where blood tests They confirmed that he had been injected with steroids.
The mother explained that his other two children They had also trained at the same academy and were also allegedly injected with steroids. Both children were diagnosed with tachycardia, a condition that causes the heart rate to go faster than normal, and vision problems.
According to Diario Libre, the national baseball commissioner of the Dominican Republic, Junior Noboa, and Judge Olga Diná Llaverías, head of the National Directorate of Boys, Girls, Adolescents and Families (Dinnaf), will open an investigation into the death of Ismael Ureña Pérez.
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