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...newest performance enhancer to emerge is the designer drug THG, a previously undetectable steroid for which five track athletes and four Oakland Raiders football players tested positive last year. "It's clear that THG was made for no medical purpose," says Charles Yesalis, professor of health policy at Penn State. "It was clearly made to circumvent the testing process. And to create something like this, you don't have to possess the Nobel Prize in chemistry...
Just look at last year’s playoffs and the Red Sox and Cubs fans. During the off-season, baseball stayed in the headlines, what with THG, the incredible amount of player movement and the insane Sox-Yankees competition...
...surprise, right? I mean, I even wrote a final paper last semester on THG and steroids and how they are entrenched in professional sports. These three ballooned late in their careers, and even Bonds’ head got noticeably bigger—a possible side effect...
...BANNED. DWAIN CHAMBERS, 25, British sprinter and European 100-meter champion, from competition for two years after testing positive for the prohibited steroid THG; in London. Chambers is the first major sports star to be punished in a scandal involving a San Francisco-area laboratory under federal investigation for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes...
...chemical at the center of the recent indictments is tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a substance that is manufactured, the government charges, by the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a maker of nutritional supplements, based in Burlingame, Calif., whose president, Victor Conte, was among the indicted men. BALCO, which boasts a client list that includes the San Francisco Giants' 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...