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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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2 1 - 0 2 - 2 0 0 5 Two world class athletes implicate Bay Area doctor in BALCO scandal
Associated Press
SAN FRANCICO - Two Olympic athletes who have admitted using illegal performance enhancing drugs claim a Bay Area doctor wrote them prescriptions and helped them concoct cover stories, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
In an interview with the paper, disgraced sprinter Kelli White said Dr. Brian Goldman publicly stated that she had a sleeping disorder to defend her use of a banned stimulant. White told the Chronicle that she doesn't have the disorder and the story was concocted by Victor Conte, the head of the BALCO, the company at the center of a burgeoning steroids scandal. Conte and three other men have been charged in federal court with steroid conspiracy charges. They have pleaded not guilty.
White tested positive in August 2003 for modafinil, which is used to treat narcolepsy, after winning gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter sprints during the World Track and Field Championships in Paris. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency last year suspended White from competition for two years.
The paper, quoting from grand jury transcripts, also said world champion sprinter Tim Montgomery testified that Goldman wrote a steroids prescription for him under a false name so it would not be traceable.
Goldman declined to discuss White, the Chronicle reported. He denied Montgomery's account. "There's just no story here," Goldman told the Chronicle. "I don't have anything to hide at all."
Goldman, a psychiatrist who said he consulted for Conte and BALCO, has not been charged with any wrongdoing in connection with the steroids scandal. The paper said he works at clinics in Danville and Fairfield.
The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment on Goldman about the BALCO case. Robert Holley, Conte's lawyer, also declined to comment, according to the Chronicle.
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