Patrick Mendes and Joshua Gilbert failed tests for banned drugs

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