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. … Read the rest of this entry »
* “First, the athlete repeatedly calls their own cellphone until the message capacity is full,” Conte wrote. “This way, the athlete can claim to the testers that they didn’t get a message when they finally decide to make themselves available.
* “Secondly, they provide incorrect information on their whereabouts form. They say they are going one place and then go to another. Thereafter, they start using testosterone, growth hormone and other drugs for a short cycle of two to three weeks.
* “After the athlete . . . know that they will test clean, they become available and resume training at their regular facility. . . . Long story short, an athlete can continue to duck and dive until they have two missed tests.”
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