Please, please, please don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I think Phelps and Bolt used steroids. I’m not saying that they used steroids or other forms of performance enhancers to shatter the world records and win the gold medals.

The point I am trying to make in today’s column is that we, as sports fans, need to be careful who we root for because athletes are known to disappoint fans.

Floyd Landis, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery are just a few that come to mind. Granted, Bonds and Clemens haven’t tested positive for anything that we know of, the steroid shadow hovers over them and it has completely ruined their reputation with the fans.

Seriously, how much of a letdown will it be if some Senator guy or some drug company names Michael Phelps as a steroid user or as a dealer’s clients? Seriously, how disappointed will we all be?

I think the answer will be pretty obvious.

Remember, it took Marion Jones seven years to come clean about her steroid use and now she’s sitting in a prison cell because she was lying to everyone.

So, as much as I want to enjoy Michael Phelps’ record breaking achievements at the Beijing games, I just can’t. Not right now, at least. It might even take seven years for me to be truly convinced about Bolt and Phelps.

Not until I know that neither Phelps nor Bolt nor Dara Torres nor Shawn Johnson or anyone significant from the games used steroids. These Olympics were great and I would hate to see everything ruined two or three years down the road with a steroid investigation and seeing someone having to relinquish their gold medals would be a shame.

Still, thanks to people like Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, I have no choice but to question these achievements. It sucks that these people have to ruin it for the rest of us, but in this day of cheating and where finishing anywhere other than first is deemed as a disappointment, you really never know what measures people will take to win.

Again, don’t take my words in the column the wrong way. I’m not saying that I know that steroids were used or that I even think they were on steroids. All I am saying is that we all need to be careful who we root for, because we really never know which athlete will disappoint us next.

Common preparations of ZMA include the ingredients: Zinc, Magnesium, and Vitamin B6. To provide some historical context, ZMA was developed by Victor Conte (founder of Balco). Balco or the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, became infamous for its implication in a steroid scandal involving numerous Olympic athletes who have subsequently lost their medals including Marion Jones. In particular, the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which was often referred to as “the clear,” was an undetectable performance enhancing steroid used by these athletes.

Though several companies market various ZMA type products, the current evidence that these products have any effect on strength, hormone status, or body composition is currently lacking (Wilborn et al, 2004).

“However, no significant differences were observed between groups in anabolic or catabolic hormone status, body composition, 1-RM bench press and leg press, upper or lower body muscular endurance, or cycling anaerobic capacity. Results indicate that ZMA supplementation during training does not appear to enhance training adaptations in resistance trained populations” (Wilborn et al, 2004).

Reference:

Wilborn CD, Kerksick CM, Campbell BI, Taylor LW, Marcello BM, Rasmussen CJ, Greenwood MC, Almada A, Kreider RB. Effects of Zinc Magnesium Aspartate (ZMA) Supplementation on Training Adaptations and Markers of Anabolism and Catabolism. J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2004 Dec 31;1(2):12-20

by John Ryan

I'm still doing research on what 2013 is in terms of Chinese years.  Maybe year of the star.  When 12:00 strikes on January 1, 2013 and the millions gathered around frothy beverages and olive-clad glasses salute, think not only of your doomed new year's resolution, but of heroes of the past who will all have hung it up five years prior and will enter the MLB Hall of Fame together.  There is a good possibility that the following names will all enter the Hall of Fame together: (good possibility means 50%. Not all of the names about to be mentioned have mentioned definite retirement plans.  I'm going by age, effectiveness, injury history, and contract status in determining possible retirees this year) John Smoltz, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Tom Glavine, Ivan Rodriguez, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux, Barry Bonds (if he makes it), Sammy Sosa (ditto), Ken Griffy, Jr., Gary Sheffield, and Manny Ramirez.  Ok, so the last few are reaches.  But, with the personalities involved there's no telling what direction they go.  I predict Sheffield, Ramirez and Griffy still play next year.  Subtract those three names though, and you still have one of the most star-studded HOF classes of all time.  The biggest question mark surronding these guys is the alleged steriod use of Sheffield, Bonds, Clemens, and Sosa.  All have been linked in some way to BALCO/steriods in some way or another, however minor.  If you vote strictly on integrity of the game (which is questioned anyway, because most of the front office people knew what was going on) then they're all out.  If your going on the premise that they were the best of a group that ALL used, then they're in.

Putting aside the steroid debate (thats not the purpose of this article) and the alleged users, that's still a heck of a class.  No doubt there's some i could be missing who will walk away this year and be considered for the HOF, as well.  But let's focus on Glavine, Maddux, Smoltz, and Schilling.  Those four seem the most likely to retire.  (Side note: Smoltz and Schilling, while worthy in my book, are not locks by any means to make it in.  In recent informal polls, both made it in by way of a small margin for error on the 75% vote required to be voted in.) The four of those pitchers were no doubt about it four of the best pitchers of their generation.  Schilling and Smoltz (the two, coincidentally, who aren't locks) were power pitchers who dominated in the playoffs.  Glavine and Maddux were less dominant in the playoffs and mixed speeds more to get their hitters out.  They also relied on pristine control.

The summer of 2013 could be the year of the star, but even if only 4 of those stars make it in, that's a big haul and certainly better than the most recent output for the Hall of Fame.

I can’t say I wasn’t a little concerned when my copy of Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today arrived. I am a big fan of the author, Dan Rosen and his blog so I knew it would be well researched and well written. Would my brain be ready? Would it come off like a medical textbook?

I put the book aside until the Tour was over. Not for any of the above concerns but I was enjoying the Tour and did not want to be reminded of the darker side of the sport. So it waited until the Monday after Carlos Sastre crossed the line in Paris.

What I found was an engaging story that took me through the history of doping in sports. All sports, not just cycling. Some of the stories, I knew some I didn’t. Throughout, Dan told me enough science to allow me to understand the story. Never more.

Dan shows us how doping was originally encouraged by governments and governing bodies. Even as testing came into play, official counter measures were put into place to circumvent the tests. As the war raged on, governing entities turned a blind eye to any practices in the ultimate “Don’t ask Don’t Tell” policy. Finally, most organizations have taken up the fight. What is more astonishing is how recently we have come from empty platitudes against doping to where we sit today.

Dan tells us all this in a non-judgmental manner that allows us to form our own opinions. Heck, even Dick Pound has his good points. The story is well told and well documented.

Forgetting what I said at the beginning of this post, I actually feel the timing is great as the Summer Olympics are upon us and we are already seeing reports of altered passports of gymnasts and other formalized slights of hand that tells me we still have a long way to go.

This book is a must read for any sports fan, not just cyclists. If you enjoy professional sports, Olympic sports, or just fair play, you will not be disappointed in the time spent reading Dope. My only negative is Dan used a photo of my pecs for the cover of his book without my permission.

Olympians-means gods well if you are going to dream of being gods you might as well go and to a communist country. Man has always dreamed of evolving into a god since the days of Nimrod, and communism was one of those grandiose schemes.

What does the flame of the Olympics represent? A bit of knowledge of Greek mythology reveals that it is the flame of Prometheus and represents the stolen fire of intellect which will make man a god.

China in the past has been guilty of gross mismanaged pipe dreams like the Great Leap forward and the cultural revolutions in its bid to see man kind evolve into a higher civilisation the costs was over one hundred million people who died.

2 8000 Weddings on 8/8/2008

Eight thousand weddings which scheduled to take place on the day of the Olympics, there is a lot of superstition about the eighth day, of the eighth month of the year two thousand and eight. Do you suspect that the Olympics committee set there and decided that this would be a great day to start the Olympics or was it a mere coincidence?

3 "Will the Olympics Change China?" the media Keeps asking

As much as they did change Hilter in 1936 Berlin Olympics? There are so many parallels with those games given that China has moved from communism to National socialism, there is a merger between big business and totalitarian government. By the way, Hitler was not a fan of free enterprise he was a socialist and he believed you can merge big business with big government. The likes of IBM, Ford Motor Company all loved Hitler just like big business loves China for its slave labor practices.

People are talking about the miracle that is China but if you look at what Kissinger did in Chile and his diplomacy with China you start to see that totalitarian have the blessing of some right wing elements in Washington. The same way as Henry Kissinger was able to fly the Chicago university economics team to reinvent the Chilean economy, is the same reason he flew back to China and convince them that they should welcome western investments. National Socialism is good business especially since there are no labour rights in China.

4 McDonald's and Coca Cola Official Sponsors

McDonalds and Coca Cola are official sponsors of an athletic event. Is this a joke?! These companies are guilty of making kids around the world obese. Well on the grounds of mixed messages the IOC should have refused McDonald's and Coca Cola money but principles and money are uneasy bed fellows.

5 Ato Boldon and John Smith- You were drugging the competition email.

'My own coach, doping my competition while he smiles in my face and preaches the "we are clean and they are not" gospel,' he writes.

'I don't think it's totally tainted, but every time the issue comes up it hurts us very bad,' he said. 'If it happens in baseball they hardly skip a beat. I feel cheated a little bit. It's hard in your mind if you have always got a question mark in your mind who's doing stuff behind closed doors. But you have to compete to the very best of your ability.'

In the 'Boldon letter', the writer refers sarcastically to Greene as 'GOAT' - the tattoo on his arm that stands for 'Greatest Of All Time' - and claims that the revelations 'now taint everyone who has worked with you [Smith], even if they decided not to go this DRUG route. I might have an ounce of respect left for either of the two of you, the "GOAT" or yourself, if you had called me up when this first broke, to at least attempt to explain - like MEN - who are supposedly down for each other, do. You knew I knew, and yet both of you have done what you do best. Huddle in a corner and hide.'

'It's not like I didn't spend the past 13 years defending anyone who dared to talk about anyone in my camp or in my group,' the letter says. 'I never did that, right? Donovan opened his mouth to DARE talk about my "boy" Maurice, and I was on him in a flash, why because when you are down, when you have each other's backs, that is what REAL MEN do - they back each other up... Donovan was right too. My bad for thinking that I could trust any of you or believe a word your words'

'I vouched for everyone,' the letter says. 'When Larry's Rectus humongus [sic] went down (of course that mystery positive of his isn't so mysterious now, is it?) it was my house that I called the meeting to, because if one was going through anything WE ALL WERE.'

'You are an older Trevor Graham - PERIOD - on a different coast of the USA - and that isn't easy for me to say, because you know what I think about Trevor,' says the letter to Smith allegedly written by Boldon. 'You think running to West Angeles Church every time you are about to get caught will solve something? I went to West Angeles for 10 years and probably saw you twice. God has a message for you, JS, "Don't give drugs to people's children! Steer them away from it if they ask you, too!"'

'Everything around you is withering and/or dying,' the writer taunts Smith in his letter. 'How can that be? You have won not a single medal that matters since 2004. Is it because you have sowed nothing but poison and deceit your entire life, and now the brief stay you had "at the top" is now over?

'Say what you want about me and my failure to win the BIG ones, but I did it cleanly, and I can look you or anyone else in the face, not to mention myself in the mirror, for the rest of my life. I know that, and so DO YOU.... John Smith the great "sprint guru" is nothing but the emperor with no clothes. No, wait a minute, we know you can coach someone to 9.86 and 19.77 [Boldon's personal best times for the 100m and 200m]. The rest I can't vouch for.'

This, however, is not the first time that Smith's name has been so closely linked with drugs. Charlie Francis testified at the Canadian government inquiry held after Ben Johnson, whom he coached, had tested positive at the 1988 Olympics that Smith had told him that he was using the steroid Dianabol. Francis subsequently repeated the allegation in his book Speed Trap, which was published in 1990. Smith denied the allegation.

'This case in the NY Times is not some mistake, some "oops" moment, some mis-step, some one-time weakness, it's a pattern, and going back to the stuff written about you in "Speed Trap" after 1988... Almost 20 years later nothing has changed,' the 'Boldon' letter-writer claims.

'Let me cut to the chase, as it concerns your ultimate betrayal, as you doped my competition and my team-mates while professing to the world (and, of course, to me) that you were the "drug-free coach". When you see me somewhere, just pretend you don't. You are dead to me.'

6 Dictators are interested in cheap entertainment

Who remembers when Iraq appointed Uday Husein one of Saddam's blood thirsty sons to be head of the Iraqi Olympic team, he had other ideas about how to motivate the team, he opened a torture chamber and he punched boxers who lost fights and gave them shock therapy. But he speciality was to beat footballers under their feet with sticks.

Sports can make you forget that you are living under repression, Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses, well today it is sports. Countries like Cuba are going to forget that communism claims to get rid of wasteful competitions and strive hard especially against Americans, hypocrites!

7 China's one child policy-

What happens if the children are twins? They separate them or tax the parents, does that not make you value freedom?

You can see some of the plutocrats like David Rockefeller who are partial to a little bit of dictatorship find China attractive, not even thinking about the eugenicists ideas. Fascists sympathisers like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett , the Rockefeller are always worried about world overpopulation and China is a model of how to control birth rates.

One of these days China will tell certain families not to have children, since now we have stopped protesting the One child policy.

8 Carl Lewis says he will like to see the USA sending a clean team

Is another Stunt? Carl Lewis was was one of the athletes whose negative drug test was kept under wraps by the IAAF. He ones wanted to dismiss Michael Johnson's rise by claiming he was "boring". Michael reposts was to tell the world how selfish Carl really was. Carl Lewis was a master of psychological dirty tricks, look at the Santa Monica Athletes club ask yourself why only Carl was on top? The whole club was based around him, other spinters could not really shine because it was his den. One of his favourite trick was to go around greeting opponents before a race, the minute the respond and feel honoured is the minute it is all lost.

9 Charles Barkley and the dream team

That was back in 1992, of course they refused to stay in the Athletes village, they were rich. But Sir Charles was guilty of elbowing an Angolan player then when he was asked why he did it he said the player "might pull a spear on him".

10 Sports is fascism

Sports is about bludgeoning the opponent till s/he backs for mercy. The Olympics always claims to be about ideals, no it is really about money and glory. I despise all claims to amateur ideals like you have in college basketball. No colleges make a lot of money off their Athletics program, if they lost money they would stopped them a longtime ago. They might as well pay the players but they feed them amateur ideals.

11 Censorship

What China is experimenting with will be the future of censorship, I hope people are notice how it feels like to live under Big Brother. Google can easily do what the China firewall is doing. The BBc and other stations are drunk right now, they keep saying will China allow journalists access to the internet?

It is the readers who need access to the internet, not journalists, as for one i am happy that some of the media is find it difficult to cope with the internet. Western Journalism has long stopped being investigative and become the establishments spin poodle.

12 Chinese Executions

As you enjoy the Olympics and immortals entertain you please remember these images.

Communist China and the Olympics were made for each other, as Nike says "winning is the only thing". Forget all that Olympics spirit clap trap.

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The International Olympic Committee stripped gold medals Saturday from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Olympics in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time.

The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping.

Three gold and two bronze were previously removed after Marion Jones confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.

Saturday's decision was almost a formality after Pettigrew gave up his gold medal in June. During a trial involving former track coach Trevor Graham, he admitted in May that he used EPO and human growth hormone from 1997 to 2003.

Five of Pettigrew's teammates also lose their medals: Michael Johnson and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison ran in the final; Jerome Young and Angelo Taylor ran in the preliminaries.

It was Johnson's fifth gold medal of his stellar career. He has already said he was giving it back because he felt "cheated, betrayed and let down" by Pettigrew's testimony. Johnson still holds world records in the 200 and 400 meters.

Three of the four runners from the relay final have been tainted by drugs.

Alvin Harrison accepted a four-year ban in 2004 after admitting he used performance-enhancers. Calvin Harrison tested positive for a banned stimulant in 2003 and was suspended for two years. Young was banned for life for doping violations.

"We support the action taken today by the IOC," USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel said. "Athletes who make the unacceptable choice to cheat should recognize that there will be consequences. Those consequences can be severe including the loss of medals and results. We're in full support of this action. In other matters like this in the past we've worked with the IOC to make certain medals will be returned, and we'll do so again."

The IOC also disqualified Pettigrew from his seventh-place finish in the individual 400 meters in Sydney. And the committee banned him from attending the upcoming Beijing Games "in any capacity," including as a competitor, coach or technical official. Pettigrew has retired from competition, and the U.S. Olympic Committee said there were no plans for him to be in Beijing.

The IOC had previously tried to strip the relay team after it became known that Young tested positive before the Sydney Games. But a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport said the entire team should not be disqualified, and Pettigrew and the others were allowed to keep their medals.

Saturday's move came four months after the IOC stripped the gold from the U.S. women's 1,600-meter relay team and bronze from the women's 400-meter relay squad because of doping by Jones. She admitted last year that she used drugs at the time and returned her five medals, including gold in the 100 meters and 200 meters and bronze in the long jump.

The IOC has put off any decision on reallocating the U.S. medals until later this year when it takes into account all the files from the BALCO investigation in the United States.

No time frame for a decision on medal redistribution has been set, although an eight-year statute of limitations expires on Oct. 1.

Nigeria finished second in the men's 1,600-meter relay, with Jamaica third and the Bahamas fourth.

"That's such a shame, especially for the ones who were clean, and it's most important for the athletes who were second," Sanya Richards, who won gold on the 1,600-meter women's relay in 2004, said from training camp in Dalian. "You lose that opportunity to stand on top of the podium and feel the joy of winning the race. Those are the people who hurt the worst when there are cheaters ahead of them. Giving back the medals is just a technicality because you can't repair the hurt feelings and the hard work that went into it."

The IOC is reluctant to hand Jones' 100 gold to silver medalist Katerina Thanou, a Greek sprinter at the center of a doping scandal at the 2004 Athens Games. She and fellow Greek runner Kostas Kenteris missed drug tests on the eve of the opening ceremony and claimed they were injured in a motorcycle accident. They were forced to pull out of the games and were later suspended for two years.

An IOC disciplinary panel will meet next Thursday to consider whether Thanou can run at the Beijing Games. The 33-year-old sprinter qualified for the Greek team in the 100, but the IOC is reviewing her eligibility.

Thanou's lawyer has threatened legal action if she is barred from the games.

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According to BALCO king, Victor Conte, "All my athletes took it.  It's bigger than creatine. It's the biggest product in nutritional supplements."

It will be interesting to see how Major League Baseball and the rest of the major sports will react to this news.  Will it soon be an illegal substance in professional sports?

Those Rafael Palmeiro commercials got to me! I am only a man...

This is one of those stories that is followed by a nail crashing into the coffin. The New York Daily News ( Awesome upstanding newspaper ) has released a report about Clemens using Viagra pills on the field as a performance enhancer on the field.

Talk about throwing a hard one right down the plate! And don't get mad at that remark; You're going to hear a bunch of these puns all day hearing these stories ( some over or under my pg-13 level). It has been reported that uses for Viagra that isn't used for "hitting one out of the park" is to increase endurance levels, and as a catalyst to deliver oxygen to muscles faster.

This is not necessarily new news on the endurance factor of Viagra in exercise. Stanford University and Palo Alto Health Center scholars had found improvements in cyclist in high altitudes upon the uses of Sildenafil ( Viagra ). The drug, which I have come to know so well through Brett Favre throwing a football through the hoop, or the guy who whets the sexual desire of local housewives and coworkers, opens up blood vessels of certain tissues, which allow blood ( and therefore oxygen ) to pass through a lot easier. Even the University of Virginia's health website talks about the benefits ( dated: 2002).

The article in the New York Daily news also reports that more players in baseball have used this component along with steroids, and it has been confirmed by the words of Victor Conte.

I am not in the loop so a lot of this is new to me. I guess at the end of the day, Clemens was trying to get the high hard one going throughout the game! Yes, I meant fastball! Fastball... doesn't correlate, but in order to climb out of the gutter, I'll just end the article here.

The Daily News referenced article ( from the Sporting News )

Leave a comment of a pun that would be funny. "Rocket-Man has a whole new meaning" has already been used:)

BALCO's Victor Conte says all of his athletes took over the counter versions of the drug. I'm guessing none of them slide head first...

La fecha del juicio fue fijada el viernes después que el rey de jonrones del béisbol de Grandes Ligas se declaró inocente al ser procesado nuevamente por 15 cargos de mentir bajo juramento y obstrucción de la justicia.

El abogado de Bonds, Allen Ruby, presentó la declaración de inocencia a nombre del toletero, mientras que el ex jugador de los Gigantes de San Francisco se mantuvo parado en silencio frente al juez.

Noventa minutos después, Ruby aceptó ante otro juez la fecha del 2 de marzo de 2009 para comenzar el juicio.

Bonds, quien no ha fichado con ningún equipo esta temporada, se declaró inocente de cargos similares en diciembre, pero un juez ordenó a la fiscalía volver a escribir la acusación.

Bonds enfrenta 14 acusaciones de mentir bajo juramento y una de obstrucción de la justicia.

La fiscalía dice que Bonds le mintió a un jurado de acusación que investigaba al laboratorio BALCO en el 2003 al testificar que nunca usó a sabiendas esteroides u otras drogas.

En las audiencias del viernes hubo mucho menos público que en la del 17 de diciembre. Vestido con un traje negro a rayas, Bonds llegó al tribunal en una camioneta negra con su abogado y un par de guardaespaldas, y entró a la corte sin hablar con la prensa.

Either I missed it because Stevie Internets aka DJ Homeschool posts with such frequency, or he’s been having some humble casserole.

This is your boy (after drinking Muscle Milk) sporting some new fashions from Milk Bar, where the Mick Boogie pre-party goes down Saturday night in Columbus, and that chrome Cruiser sits in the window. Go spend your stimulus money and get fly.

I see you with the Mikey Rocks tank top, Steve.

LOL

Check his blog A Dream Killer.

The New York Times speculates that the federal courts will let the government use the results from an anonymous 2003 steroid test conducted by MLB in its ongoing investigation into steroid distribution.

The 104 implicated players would appear before federal agents or grand juries.  Their identities would be made public, should their testimony lead to warrants or criminal charges.  They may also serve as trial witnesses.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the government's favor in January.  Should the court decide not to rehear the case, the only recourse for the Players Union would be the Supreme Court.

In no way does the above picture suggest that Luis Gonzalez's vein builging Popeye muscles required unnatural assistance.

1. THG (Tetrahydrogestrinon)
Das ehemals nicht nachweisbare Designersteroid THG, welches speziell von BALCO zum nicht nachweisbaren Doping entwickelt worden ist, wird nur zweimal wöchentlich verwendet und zwar an den beiden schwersten Krafttrainingstagen, um die Regeneration und Heilung zu beschleunigen. Jeweils 30 IU wurden dabei morgens unter die Zunge geträufelt. Nach drei Wochen der Anwendung folgte eine Woche Pause.

2. Wachstumshormon (STH / Somatropin)
Jeweils 4,5 IU dreimal wöchentlich vor dem Schlafengehen verabreicht, sollten die Erholung fördern.

3. Testosteron-/Epitestosteron-Creme
Eine spezielle Creme mit den Inhaltsstoffen Testosteron und Epitestosteron wurde zweimal wöchentlich in einer Dosierung von jeweils 50mg Testosteron und 2,5mg Epitestosteron (20:1 Verhältnis) in die Unterarme einmassiert. Hierdurch sollte zum einen die durch die THG Gabe verursachte Unterdrückung der körpereigenen Testosteronproduktion ausgeglichen und zum anderen die Erholung beschleunigt werden. 3 Wochen on, 1 Woche off.

4. EPO (Erytropoietin)
EPO wurde dreimal pro Woche in den ersten beiden Wochen eines Cycles benutzt. Jeweils 4000 IU sollten die Sauerstoffversorgung des Bluts und damit die Ausdauerleistung verbessern.

5. Insulin
Jeweils 3 IU Insulin wurden nach dem Training zusammen mit 30g Dextrose, 30g Whey-Protein und 3g Creatin verabreicht. Sinn und Zweck ist hier primär die schnellere Regeneration nach dem Training.

6. Modafinil
Modafinil erhöht die Aufmerksamkeit und die Wachheit und wurde speziell vor einem Wettkampf in einer Dosierung von 200mg eingenommen.

7. T3 (Liothyronin)
Das synthetische Schilddrüsenhormon sollte in einer Dosierung von 50mcg eine Stunde vor einem Wettkampf eingenommen den Stoffwechsel und die Schnelligkeit erhöhen.

Auffallend an diesem Dopingplan sind die doch recht geringen Dosierungen, die verwendet wurden. Das lässt gängige Internetforen-User, die sich wöchentlich 1g Testo schießen und 50mg Dianabol am Tag schlucken, ziemlich dumm aussehen.

Barry Bonds was charged with 14 counts of perjury and 1 count of obstruction of justice for his role in the Balco/steroid witchhunt.  This is good news for the Feds and bad news for the KC Royals.  They needed Barry and his bat.  Oh well, it will be sucky hitting out at the K for the forseeable future. 

I don't believe this guy took steroids.  I think he took care of his body while watching what he ate, and also went to great lengths to help his workout recovery by applying the arthritic balm and flaxseed oil.  Why, I use it all the time.  Sorta smells like Ben Gay (geez, who came up with that name?) and Vaseline.

Good luck, Barry.  You're going to need it.  Maybe you can take BP from Wesley Snipes. 

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In den USA und Europa sind seit ein paar Wochen Präparate von BALCO Pharmaceuticals erhältlich, die laut eigenen Angaben zwar nicht vom Kopf des BALCO Clans, Victor Conte, aber von einem engem Vertrauten stammen. Ob etwas dran oder ob alles nur etwas Medientrara ist, um den Verkauf der Produkte anzukurbeln, kann noch nicht mit schlussendlicher Gewissheit gesagt werden. Wir bleiben dran.

Zur Produktpalette von BALCO Pharmaceuticals gehört neben den Standard-Steroiden Testosteron Propionat, Enantat und Cypionat, Trenbolon Acetat und Enantat, Nandrolon Decanoat und Boldenonen Undecylenate auch Tabletten in Form von Fluoxymesteron, Stanozolol und Methandienon. Ebenso Wachstumshormon und der Auslöser der BALCO-Affaire, das THG, befinden sich im Angebot.

I've been waiting for some bangers from Jay for a while. Kingdome Come was aiight in my book, but I want a little Public Service Anouncement/Dirt Off My Shoulders/Lucifier bounce. Here's a track I picked up on the internets. Not banger material but the flow is always nasty.

Jay-Z and Mary J Blige aka Ms. BALCO - You're Welcome

This might have something to do with it:

Thomas is currently studying law at the University of Oklahoma.

When she graduates, she will presumably seek admission to the bar. A conviction for false statements or obstruction of justice would almost certainly disqualify Thomas from practicing law, and that might be why she has pushed her BALCO defense this far while so many others have taken the hit and moved on.

For those who aren't terribly familiar with Tammy Thomas, here are the during and after pics. I'd like to see a before picture to complete the contrasts. 

Tammy Thomas the cyclist                    Tammy Thomas the ex-cyclist

Even in the after picture, she scares me.