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Steroids are Evil Quote of the Day: Sprinter Dwain Chambers
[March 3rd, 2009] by Millard Baker
Disgraced British sprinter Dwain Chambers resorts to demonizing anabolic steroids in his autobiographical account of his use of performance-enhancing drugs to become a faster sprinter in ”Race Against Me: My Story” (”Chambers describes himself as ‘walking junkie’,” March 2).
“There were enough drugs in there to kill an elephant and I didn’t have a clue whether they were legal or not. I was a walking junkie,” Chambers writes. “I had tubes of stuff that were known only to me as ‘The Clear’ and ‘The Cream,’ along with a few bottles of EPO and HGH, which were in ice packs as they needed to be kept cool.”
Chambers also blames BALCO mastermind Victor Conte and the “devil” for convincingly encouraging him to use undetectable designer steroids.
“He said I had the potential to be a gold medalist, he could make me the fastest man in the world. He put me at ease, explaining the benefits of a new designer drug, tetrahydrogestrinone (THG),” Chambers writes. “The devil was sowing the seeds for my conversion to the dark side of athletics: a world of deceit and lying.”
Chambers served a two-year suspension from track competition and a permanent ban from Olympic competition after testing positive for THG. He continues to compete at elite track competitions.
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