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...shot put champion C. J. Hunter may, of course, be innocent. He claims he took the anabolic steroid nandrolone with his iron supplement - that is, accidentally. Hunter's wife, the miraculous Olympian Marion Jones, may be even more innocent still. But somehow having the captain of the old O. J. Simpson dream team standing by did not ease the mind...
...hard to know what to make of the Hunter mess and of the turbocharging pharmaceuticals that so corrupt athletics now - all the potions to build up jocks with muscle mass and aggression and more red blood cells (and a bloated liver, maybe). One feels pained for Andreea Raducan, the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal in the all-around competition because, it seems, her team physician had prescribed a cold remedy containing the stimulant pseudoephedrine. Was it fair to take the medal away when her intent seemed innocent? But what of the doctor...
...fascinating and far more complex implication: Forget drugs. Entire Olympic teams might be bio-engineered and compete on their margins of mechanical perfection, like computer-designed Grand Prix cars and racing yachts. Swimmers, for example, engineered with enormous webbed feet and fabulous lung capacity. The new-model C. J. Hunter should be able to put the shot from Sydney to Perth...
...latest string of drug-related incidents at the Games in Sydney, authorities revealed that American shot putter C.J. Hunter, the husband of star sprinter Marion Jones, tested positive four times this summer for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid. Even more disturbing, it seems as though U.S. and international track and field officials never told this to the International Olympic Committee, the Games' governing body...
...While Hunter pulled out of the Olympics a few weeks before they started, citing injury (or perhaps he knew he'd be caught?), his story only emphasizes the notion that the Olympics are populated with athletes who are all on varying degrees of performance-enhancing medications...