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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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0 6 - 1 2 - 2 0 0 4 Lid lifted on new drugsMike Hurst Herald Sun 06dec04 VICTOR Conte, the man at the centre of the BALCO doping scandal, yesterday named two new-generation, undetectable drugs that are allegedly being used to cheat and win in international sport. Conte, the founding president of the Bay Area Laboratories Co-Operative in San Francisco, has been indicted to face 35 charges of steroid dealing and money laundering. In a story written in the first person by Conte for ESPN The Magazine, the charismatic dope peddler declared a third-generation version of THG -- The Stuff III -- and a thyroid hormone -- T3 -- are being used with impunity. "The feds want you to believe this is about them trying to control performance-enhancing drugs. It's not," Conte wrote. "It's about celebrity. "It's about (baseballer) Barry Bonds. (athlete) Marion Jones. The Olympics. My clients didn't come to BALCO to learn how to do drugs. Most were already using before they came. "And it's about fooling the public. "You think it's over, just because they've indicted me? Please. There's a new version out there right now. It's 'The Stuff III'. If the feds hadn't raided BALCO, I'd have gotten it by now." Conte's last comment indicates that he was little more than a dealer of undetectable dope, rather than the designer. Illinois chemist and bodybuilder Patrick Arnold has been under investigation for allegedly manipulating the molecular structure of norbolethone and turning it into tetrahydrogestrinone, known variously as THG, The Clear and The Stuff. In a fascinating insight into the world of dirty tricks in elite sport, Conte wrote about his dope dealings with disgraced sprinters Britain's Dwain Chambers and American Kelli White, who won the 100m and 200m world titles in Paris last year. White lost them after failing a drug test for the stimulant, modafinil. "Besides the same things Dwain was on, she (White) also was taking a new drug I'd started using, thyroid hormone T3," Conte wrote. "It makes all the other drugs work more effectively by accelerating metabolic rate. You feel light as a feather." For the first time Conte also revealed the vengeful purpose to his pyrrhic confession -- bringing down America's top sprint coaches Trevor Graham and John Smith, who he believes turned him in to authorities. Conte wrote how he was supplying Graham with banned performance-enhancing drugs. Graham coached Jones to win an unprecedented five-medal haul at the Sydney Olympic Games, including the sprint double. Graham is coaching Justin Gatlin, the 100m gold medallist at this year's Athens Games, and Shawn Crawford, the 200m gold medallist in Athens. "Before the 2003 US Track and Field Championships, Trevor Graham anonymously called the headquarters of the US Anti-Doping Agency in Colorado to say that he had a syringe (containing then-undetectable THG) that came from Victor Conte," Conte wrote. "Then he forwarded it to the agency, which in turn sent it to the Olympic testing lab in Los Angeles. "Now, I've given packages of performance-enhancing drugs directly to Trevor. "And I've heard from more than one very good source that he anonymously sent a sample of 'The Clear' to the Olympic drug-testing lab at UCLA a year earlier, in 2002, but the lab didn't have a big enough sample to identify it. Well, it worked this time."
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