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...even though steroid use is obvious, oh man, just imagine if one of them got caught. Just imagine...
Professor of pharmacology at UCLA and head of the university-based Olympic Analytical Laboratory, Catlin understands better than almost anybody that the sports-doping war is essentially a pharmacological arms race, with chemists in illegal labs tinkering with steroid formulations so that the drugs can perform their muscle-building jobs while sidestepping tests designed to detect them. The testers, for their part, strive to discover the existence of the new drugs and develop ways to screen for them, driving the bad guys to modify them further, and so on. "By definition," says Rob Manfred, a labor-relations executive with Major...
...Bonds and the New York Yankees' Jason Giambi, claims it traffics only in legal supplements. The Department of Justice questions that, and in June an unnamed track coach gave the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) a syringe said to hold traces of a new chemical that had hit the steroid circuit--and also said to have been supplied by Conte. The USADA turned the contents of the syringe over to Catlin. "All we were told was that it [contained] a drug that was being used by athletes," he says...
What makes the new drug so cunning is that it grows unstable in the body, breaking apart before it reaches the urine and becoming invisible to screening tests. To track it, the UCLA lab invented a new test that is sensitive to the elements of the deconstructed steroid. So far, five track and field stars and four players from football's Oakland Raiders have tested positive for the drug...
Catlin, though pleased he helped move the case forward, is under no illusions that the jig is up for the dopers. If one lab can invent a nearly undetectable steroid, others are certainly doing the same. "People are developing designer drugs of all sorts," he says. "That's the bitter part. The sweetness is that [this time] it was discovered." For the four men soon to go on trial, things are about to get anything but sweet. --Reported by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Mitch Frank/New York, Laura A. Locke and Daniel Terdiman/San Francisco and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles