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Even if you're the fastest couple in the world, there are certain things you can't outrun--like Johnny Law. So Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, the sprinting champions, find themselves caught in the center of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation into steroid use by athletes. Both deny taking banned performance-enhancing drugs, and neither has been formally charged. Still, as the allegations spread all the way up Olympus to the U.S.'s top track-and-field stars, it looks as if either we'll be sending a scandal-tainted team to the Games or those...
That kind of evidence might include the documents emerging these days from the offices of the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a San Francisco--area company that is the target of a federal investigation into steroid distribution and money laundering. BALCO is responsible for creating THG (tetrahydrogestrinone, for you Olympic fans keeping illegal-drug box scores at home), a steroid that was designed to elude detection on doping tests. BALCO also makes a perfectly legal mineral supplement called ZMA (mostly zinc and magnesium), which it got famous athletes to mention in public a lot (Jones has touted it and still...
Former Olympian and longtime track-and-field TV commentator Dwight Stones, 50, says steroids pervaded the sport as far back as the 1970s. In 1976, he says, he was tempted to take dianabol, an earlier steroid, at the Olympics. But "it wasn't enough of a guarantee of improvement that I was willing to risk breaking the rules and potentially impacting my children or grandchildren," he says. One fair solution, as Stones sees it, would be to "legalize all steroids. That would surely level the playing field." While that might be an easy fix, it would turn sports into...
BARRED. KELLI WHITE, 27, U.S. sprinter; from competing until May 2006; for steroid use, costing her a trip to the Athens Olympics and her medals since 1998; in Colorado Springs, Colo...
Your report on steroid use in professional sports, "Baseball Takes a Hit" [March 15], included a photograph of Organon USA Inc.'s product Durabolin. The drug, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the control of metastatic breast cancer in women, is no longer marketed in the U.S. and has not been for some time. We voluntarily discontinued marketing and selling it about three years ago. Organon never produced or promoted Durabolin for the purpose of athletic-performance enhancement. By including a photo of Durabolin, TIME erroneously and unfairly suggested that the company has contributed...