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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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Greek drugs claim 'enormous lie' From correspondents in Athens The Australian 04nov04 THE lawyer of disgraced Greek sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterina Thanou today rubbished claims they were supplied THG by the BALCO laboratory. Mihalis Dimitrakopoulos was responding to claims that an e-mail included in papers [ErGs] filed on Friday by prosecutors in the United States featured BALCO founder Victor Conte making a reference to THG - the once-undetectable steroid tetrahydrogestrinone - being used by the Greek athletics stars. But their lawyer branded the claims as an "enormous lie" by BALCO in a bid to generate publicity for themselves at the time. "The lie is proven by the report from the American judge dealing with the BALCO affair and which says nothing of note regarding the two Greek champions," said Dimitrakopoulos, who did not deny the existence of the e-mail. The athletes' coach Christos Tzekos also claimed that Conte had wanted "to generate a huge amount of publicity" by using the names of the sprinters. "There's nothing new, the bid to implicate us in the BALCO affair is old," added Tzekos, who recently parted company with Kenteris. Kenteris, a Greek hero after winning gold in the 200m at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and Thanou, silver medallist in the women's 100m four years ago, withdrew from the Athens Olympics in August after missing a doping test. The two athletes and the controversial Tzekos are accused of obstructing International Olympic Committee (IOC) testers and making false statements about an alleged motorbike accident when admitted to a hospital. Names of the Greek sprinters were found on a document that was part of a filing to rebut a defense motion in the case against Conte and three other men claiming a federal agent fabricated parts of interviews last December. The message to a track coach said that "Kenteris" and Thanou "have access to both agents", a reference investigators say refers to THG and a testosterone cream, a newspaper reported. |
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