The BALCO scandal was a scandal involving the use of banned, performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes.
The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was a San Francisco Bay Area business which supplied anabolic steroids to professional athletes. In 2002 the US federal government investigated the laboratory.[1]
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The BALCOscandal was a scandal involving the use of banned, performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative...
the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCOscandal. The performance-enhancing substance usage scandal covered more than 20 top-level athletes, including...
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to beat drug tests. In August 2005, all four defendants in the BALCO steroid scandal trial, including Anderson, struck deals with federal prosecutors...
has been a key figure in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) scandal. BALCO marketed tetrahydrogestrinone ("the Clear"), a performance-enhancing...
considered the substances illegal without a prescription. After the BALCOscandal, which involved allegations that top baseball players had used illegal...
Jamaican-born American former sprinter and athletics coach. Following the BALCOscandal, the US Olympic Committee barred him indefinitely from all its training...
named by FBI officers investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) as being one of the baseball players believed to have received anabolic...
investigated the company's role in a drug sports scandal later referred to as the BALCO Affair. BALCO marketed tetrahydrogestrinone ("the Clear"), a then-undetected...
no contest. In August 2002 federal agents initiated investigations into BALCO, a California-based laboratory suspected of selling banned performance-enhancing...
"The Clear" and synthetic testosterone ointment "The Cream" provided by BALCO since 2003. Romanowski admitted to staying a step ahead of NFL drug testing...
of discipline. This stemmed from Giambi's ongoing involvement with the BALCO investigation and statements he had given to the media. Major League players...
creation, were hard-to-detect drugs at the heart of the BALCO professional sports doping scandal. BALCO distributed these worldwide to world-class athletes...
until the 1920s when the Black Sox Scandal and the resultant merciless crackdown largely put an end to it. The scandal involved eight players and all were...
stays in Israel and Italy. Korchemny was one of the figures in the 2003 BALCOscandal. He was indicted on 12 February 2004, and on 29 July 2005, he pleaded...
guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs as a central figure in the BALCOscandal. Since retiring from athletics, he has been tried and convicted for...
Sheffield was mentioned in the Mitchell Report and implicated in the 2004 BALCOscandal with respect to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Sheffield was...
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disqualified in 2005 after he admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCOscandal. 3 The USA originally finished first in 37.96 (Mickey Grimes, Bernard...
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The Biogenesis scandal broke in 2013 when several Major League Baseball (MLB) players were accused of obtaining performance-enhancing drugs ("PEDs"),...
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was notable for the league's new steroid policy in the wake of the BALCOscandal, which enforced harsher penalties than ever before for steroid use in...
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Anti-Doping Agency, effective May 17, 2004. Her doping was linked to the BALCO doping scandal. After returning from college to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000...