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...when you saw him donning a blonde wig for an insipid American Idol spoof, wait until you read about him gulping 20 pills at one time. That?s just one of the explosive new revelations contained in ?Game of Shadows,? the book by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams excerpted in this week?s issue of Sports Illustrated, which provides the most detailed, damning account to date of Bonds? steroid use. We already knew he took designer steroids ?the Cream? and ?the Clear?-America, say hello to Clomid, a women?s infertility drug that Bonds allegedly...
...year ago he admitted taking the Cream and the Clear to a grand jury in the federal case against BALCO, the shady Bay Area drug supplier. But he denied knowing they were performance-enhancing drugs. That claim was hard enough to believe then-now, it?s laughable. Fainaru-Wada and Williams, who covered the BALCO case for two years and broke the news of Bonds? original grand jury testimony, look like they?ve built a fairly airtight case, as they?ve based their account on interviews with more than 200 people, memos detailing witness interviews with federal agents, audio tapes...
...banned performance-enhancing substance erythropoietin (EPO). Armstrong called the charge a witch hunt. "When I peed in that bottle [in 1999], there wasn't EPO in it," Armstrong said during a prime-time offensive on Larry King Live. "No way." But the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suggested the story might be credible. "I don't think, with the greatest respect, you can just say it's the French media again," WADA head Richard Pound said in an interview with TIME...
Defining moment: In 1957, Wada, now 70, joined Seibu Department Stores Ltd., working in the owner's inner circle. At 35 Wada was named a director...
Luxury quotient: Sogo and Seibu sales have beaten expectations, with an '04 operating profit of $315 million. Wada plans to redesign Seibu outlets throughout Japan and open a new Sogo store in Osaka. "I want to live in a world where money is not a concern," he says. He won't be finding such a place soon...