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This archived discussion is "read only". « Previous 1 2 Next » » NYCScribe - Re: Imagine that! The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that according to information given to federal investigators, Barry Bond (SF Giants), and New York Yankees Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffields all received steroids and human growth hormone from a nutritional supplements lab implicated in a steroid-distribution ring.Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, gave the players the drugs from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, according to information given to the government and shared with the newspaper. Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield, all of whom testified last fall before the grand jury that indicted four men in the alleged steroid-distribution ring, continue to deny steroid use. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Government may intervene Sen. John McCain has informed Major League Baseball that they must either come up with a comprehensive drug testing plan, or else Congress will act."Your failure to commit to addressing this issue straight on and immediately will motivate this committee to search for legislative remedies," McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, told players' union chief Donald Fehr. McCain, R-Ariz., made the threat after Fehr refused to accept the senator's challenge to agree to the more comprehensive policy found in the NFL. McCain said sports such as baseball are "aiding and abetting cheaters" with a weak testing policy. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Track & Field stars slowing down under intense pressure The world's fastest man, Tim Montgomery, shockingly failed to qualify for the Athens Games in the 100 meters this past Sunday (7/11). With Montgomery out of the Olympics, the USOC avoids the possible embarrassment of having to remove him from the U.S. squad before the games if an international panel of arbitrators finds he used performance-enhancing drugs.His exit came a day after his girlfriend, three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones, also surprisingly failed to qualify for the Olympics in the 100. But while Jones (who gave birth to her first child about a year ago) still can make the U.S. team in the 200 and the long jump, Montgomery is out of chances. Montgomery is one of four sprinters charged by USADA with steroid use. If found guilty, they face lifetime bans. Another member of that group, Chryste Gaines, failed to qualify in the women's 100. Alvin Harrison, another of those four, made it through the first round of the 400 Sunday. Marion Jones is under investigation by USADA but has not been charged. She and Tim Montgomery both blamed the stress of having to deal with reporters regarding alleged steroid use for failing to qualify in their strongest Olympic events. The San Francisco Chronicle reported last month that Montgomery told a grand jury he used human growth hormone and a then-undetectable steroid later classified as THG. He has denied this accusation. Montgomery, Jones and dozens of other athletes testified before the grand jury that ultimately indicted four men connected with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. The four men, including Barry Bonds' personal trainer, have pleaded innocent to distributing steroids to top athletes. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Marion Jones' reputation under heavy fire According to reports from two newspapers, the ex-husband of three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones told federal investigators that Jones was using banned performance-enhancing drugs during the 2000 Games in Sydney where she won five medals. C.J. Hunter told Internal Revenue Service investigators pursuing the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case that he personally injected his then-wife with banned substances and saw Jones inject herself with the drugs at their home in Australia. Human growth hormone, the steroid THG, insulin and the endurance-boosting drug EPO were among the substances Hunter alleged that Jones used. Hunter, who won a shot put world title in 1999, tested positive for steroids four times in 2000 - when he was married to Jones, who has adamantly denied using banned substances. Jones' attorney, Joseph Burton, released a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday night accusing Hunter of lying to authorities because he was bitter about the couple's breakup.-- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Confession New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi injected himself with human growth hormone in 2003 and also used steroids for at least three seasons, according to his grand jury testimony reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.The testimony given in December 2003 to the federal grand jury investigating BALCO contradicts Giambi's public proclamations that he never used performance-enhancing drugs. Giambi met Anderson when the trainer joined Bonds on an All-Star tour in Japan in November 2002. Giambi said he wanted to know what Bonds' secret for success was. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Biggest Fish Caught - Bonds took steroids Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle has reported today.Bonds told the federal grand jury last year that Greg Anderson, his personal trainer, told him the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the Chronicle. The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroid scandal. Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, said the leak of grand jury testimony was an attempt to smear his client. Grand jury transcripts are sealed and the Chronicle did not say who showed them the documents. The Chronicle story is the latest development this week in the more than yearlong BALCO probe. Dozens of elite athletes testified before the grand jury last year, including baseball stars Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, and track stars Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Kelli White. The probe led to some athletes being banned from the Olympics and left a cloud of suspicion over others, such as Jones, who were allowed to compete despite the investigation. But Bonds is the biggest star of all, the holder of baseball's single-season home run record of 73 in 2001 and the man who could break Hank Aaron's career homer mark of 755 as early as next year. Bonds ended last season with 703 homers and won his record seventh NL Most Valuable Player award. It is uncertain what punishment, if any, Bonds could receive from baseball, which didn't have penalties for steroid use until last year. While discipline is spelled out for positive tests and criminal convictions from 2003 on, admission of illegal steroid use is not addressed, possibly giving baseball commissioner Bud Selig an opening to punish Bonds. Selig repeatedly has called for year-round random testing and harsher penalties, but management and the players' association have failed to reach an agreement. The contract runs through the 2006 season. Prosecutors confronted Bonds with documents dating to his record-setting season of 2001 that allegedly detailed his use of many drugs, including human growth hormone, steroids and insulin. He said he believed he only used legal products to treat arthritis and fatigue. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Designer Steroids Keep Coming Scientists with the World Anti-Doping Agency announced yesterday that they had discovered a new designer steroid, one more complex and more dangerous to produce than THG, the previously undetectable substance that has vaulted sports drug testing into a new era since 2003.Anti-doping officials said the new drug, desoxymethyltestosterone, which they dubbed DMT, was uncovered after an anonymous e-mail tip directed the agency to investigate a substance seized by Canadian customs officials in June 2004. They also said they did not have any evidence the drug had been used. THG, or tetrahydrogestrinone, thrust the world of designer steroids into headlines when it was discovered in 2003, leading to a raid of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. That investigation led to the indictment of the Balco founder, Victor Conte Jr., after grand jury testimony by numerous elite athletes, including Barry Bonds and Marion Jones, who have been implicated in the scandal. THG was chemically altered to be undetectable in the drug tests being used at the time. Since then, a test has been developed. DMT was apparently designed to elude detection. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - The gospel according to Jose Canseco Jose Canseco claims in his upcoming book to have injected Mark McGwire with steroids and introduced several other sluggers to the drugs. The long-awaited "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," is scheduled for release by Regan Books on Feb. 21.Canseco said he, McGwire and Jason Giambi shot steroids together in the bathroom stall at the Oakland Coliseum. McGwire has always denied using steroids. Canseco also claims to have introduced Texas teammates Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez to steroids after being traded to the Rangers in 1992. He even said that President Bush, the general managing partner of the Rangers at the time, must have known about the steroid use. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Rafael Palmeiro the latest pro athlete to be tainted by steroids Rafael Palmeiro has been suspended for violating Major League Baseball's steroids policy, nearly five months after appearing before a congressional committee and claiming that "I have never used steroids. Period."Two weeks ago he collected his 3,000th hit, joining Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray as the only players with 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Palmeiro, 40, is the seventh and highest-profile player to test positive for steroids under the major league policy adopted earlier this year. In an interview on the CBS television show "60 Minutes," Jose Canseco said he injected steroids into Palmeiro. -- posted by NYCScribe » NYCScribe - Major Leage Baseball firms up its anti-steroids stance Major league players and owners agreed to toughen penalties for steroid use to a 50-game suspension for a first failed test, 100 days for a second and a lifetime ban for a third.Baseball also will test for amphetamines for the first time starting next year under the deal, which must be ratified by both sides. Baseball's current steroid penalties are a 10-day suspension for a first offense, 30 days for a second offense and 60 days for a third. The earliest a player could be banned for life is a fifth offense. The sport's second new steroids agreement in 10 months came after lengthy negotiations prompted by urging from Congress - including the threat of legislation that would require higher penalties and stricter testing standards. -- posted by NYCScribe « Previous 1 2 Next » Please follow the guidelines set forth in the Suite101 Posting Etiquette when adding to the discussion. |
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