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June 24, 2004
Montgomery: BALCO Supplied Bonds Steroids
Here's some interesting news out of the Bay Area this morning: San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds obtained the steroid Winstrol from BALCO founder Victor Conte, track star Tim Montgomery told a federal grand jury last year. As a result of his testimony regarding his own steroids use, Montgomery is facing a lifetime ban from competition at the behest of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The article further states that Bonds sought these drugs because of his concerns about the random testing that Major League Baseball instituted at the start of the 2003 season. Apparently, the steroids Bonds reportedly obtained, are not detectable using current testing methods. On some days, Bonds seems like the greatest player in the history of the game. On others, it seems like he might wreck it. This is one of those days.
Eric
07:00 AM
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsTHG actually is detectable now -- it wasn't at the time. The anti-doping lab at UCLA developed a test after a tipster handed in a syringe with trace amounts of the stuff last summer. It's creating a huge scandal in track and field because as many as 15 athletes (mostly but not all U.S., not all of them any good) may have been on it. Five already have been banned. Baseball, of course, simply doesn't care about this, so I guess there's no scandal. Posted by: at June 24, 2004 10:32 AM Post a commentThanks for signing in, . (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |