Patrick Mendes received 2-year ban; Joshua Gilbert was suspended for 3 years

The top Olympic weightlifters Patrick Mendes and Joshua Gilbert were banned from “Average Broz’s Gymnasium” (Las Vegas, Nevada). They tested positive for forbidden preparations. Steroids were not the products taken by these athletes. They applied non-steroidal products that are also banned under Code of the WADA.
Mendes tested positive for banned medicines in February 2012 before the United States Olympic Team Trials for Weightlifting scheduled who would represent the US at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The weightlifter 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 product which is used by those who apply steroids in order to mask steroid use. Moreover, this medication helps athletes to lose weight in order to correspond to certain weight categories.  Weightlifting, boxing and wrestling are sports where athletes are divided to certain weight categories.
HGH and furosemide are medications that are prohibited by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The anti-doping system of the IWF is in the harmony with the WADA Code.
The weightlifters Mendes and Gilbert were trained 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 founded own training facilities in Las Vegas.
Mendes was sentenced to 2-year ban. As for Gilbert, he was sentenced to 3-year suspension.
The suspensions of these weightlifters are failure for “Average Broz’s Gym”. Thus, the greatest weightlifters were not allowed to represent their home country at the 2012 Summer Olympics.