Friday, December 03, 2004
Former Tower of Power bassist Victor Conte comes clean. Marion Jones denies it. And Craig Masback is, as usual, invisible. Of course, what could he say? As Charlie Pierce points out, "THG, the substance produced by the BALCO Laboratories in California and allegedly consumed by dozens of athletes, was neither illegal nor specifically banned by any professional sports league." Some of the substances involved-- HGH, for example, are and were banned, but there were no tests for them-- so we have Conte's word against Jones'. Incidently, it is not clear that HGH (a) provides any training benifit, or (b) is harmful. I don't know about a lot of the other stuff-- the pharmacology is not all that accessable to a lay person, and there don't seem to be very many reliable information sources out there about this sort of thing.
