Patrick Mendes and Joshua Gilbert were sentenced to suspensions

The top Olympic weightlifters Patrick Mendes and Joshua Gilbert were banned from “Average Broz’s Gymnasium” (Las Vegas, Nevada). They tested positive for forbidden medications. Steroids were not the products taken by these athletes. They took non-steroidal medicines that are also forbidden under Code of the WADA.
Patrick Mendes tested positive for forbidden medicines in February 2012 before the United States Olympic Team Trials for Weightlifting defined who would represent the US at the 2012 Olympic Games. The weightlifter tested for HGH; as a result, he was sentenced to a suspension.
Joshua Gilbert tested positive for the diuretic substance furosemide at the 2012 National Weightlifting Championships. It was in March 2012.
Furosemide is a product that is administered by those that take steroids in order to mask usage of steroids. Moreover, this medication helps sportspersons to lose weight in order to correspond to certain weight groups.  Weightlifting, boxing and wrestling are sports where athletes belong to certain weight groups.
HGH and furosemide are drugs that are forbidden by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The anti-doping system of the IWF meets criteria of the WADA Code.
The weightlifters Mendes and Gilbert were coached 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 studied the Bulgarian system of trainings and brought some methods to America. He founded own training gym in Las Vegas.
Mendes was sentenced to 2-year suspension. As for Gilbert, he was sentenced to 3-year suspension.
The suspensions of these athletes are failure for “Average Broz’s Gym”. Thus, the greatest weightlifters were not allowed to represent their native country at the 2012 Summer Olympics.