Patrick Mendes and Joshua Gilbert tested positive for banned medications

Patrick Mendes and Joshua Gilbert, top Olympic weightlifters, were banned from “Average Broz’s Gymnasium” (Las Vegas, Nevada). They tested positive for forbidden medicines. Steroids were not the medications applied by these sportsmen. They used non-steroidal drugs that are also prohibited under Code of the WADA.
Mendes tested positive for prohibited products in February 2012 before the United States Olympic Team Trials for Weightlifting determined who would represent the US at the 2012 London Olympics. The sportsman tested for HGH; as a result, he was banned.
Joshua Gilbert tested positive for the diuretic medicine furosemide at the 2012 National Weightlifting Championships. It was in March 2012.
Furosemide is a drug that is used by those who administer steroids in order to mask usage of steroids. Moreover, this medicine helps sportspersons to lose weight in order to correspond to certain weight groups.  Weightlifting, boxing and wrestling are sports where athletes are divided to certain weight classes.
HGH and furosemide are preparations that are forbidden by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The anti-doping system of the IWF is in the harmony with the WADA Code.
Mendes and Gilbert were coached by John Broz. Broz lived and trained with the well-known Bulgarian weightlifter Antonio Krastev during his career. Krastev broke a world record snatch of 216 kg in 1987. John Broz studied the Bulgarian system of trainings and brought several methods to America. He established own training facilities in Las Vegas.
Mendes went to 2-year suspension. As for Gilbert, he was suspended for 3 years.
The bans of these weightlifters are failure for “Average Broz’s Gym”. So, the greatest weightlifters were not allowed to represent their home country at the 2012 Olympic Games.