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SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball's Barry Bonds, who holds a record six Most Valuable Player awards, testified on Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating a doping scandal around some of the biggest names in sport.
Behind closed doors, the grand jury is investigating BALCO, a San Francisco area firm and its owner, Victor Conte. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has pointed to BALCO, which specializes in nutrition supplements and has many top athletes among its clients, as the source of the new designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG.
Bonds, a San Francisco Giants outfielder, looked somber and serious and did not speak to reporters as he arrived at the courthouse with his attorney, Mike Rains.
New York Yankees slugger, Jason Giambi, who previously played for the Oakland Athletics, was also expected to testify on Thursday. Several other athletes who play or have played in the San Francisco area have also testified in recent weeks.
Bonds has denied taking any steroids, but Rains told Reuters last month that he could not rule out the possibility that his client might have unknowingly taken steroids hidden in nutritional shake supplements made by BALCO.
"Theoretically, one might take stuff orally and I guess it could be done that way," Rains said. "I guess anything is possible but we don't have any information or evidence to indicate that that was the case at this point."
THG use could not be detected until the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency developed a test for it.
Bonds was BALCO's most famous client and received free nutritional supplements and analysis from the firm based in Burlingame, California, for three years.
"I visit BALCO every three to six months," Bonds told 'Muscle and Fitness' magazine last year. "They check my blood to make sure my levels are what they should be.... I'm just shocked by what they have been able to do for me."
Although Bonds has not been named as a target, the grand jury probe has renewed questions about the holder of the Major League Baseball record for the most home runs in a season.
He was asked repeatedly about the subject at a news conference after he won his sixth MVP award last month. Police have searched the home of his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and the San Francisco Chronicle has reported they found illegal steroids there.
In recent years, the 39-year-old slugger has continued to defy age as he reaches toward baseball's most cherished mark -- Hank Aaron's all-time homer record.
Several leading track athletes and baseball stars, among them triple Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones and her partner, Tim Montgomery, the 100 meters world record holder, have already testified before a grand jury.
Five athletes, including European 100 meters champion Dwain Chambers of Britain, had previously tested positive for THG.
Many sports agencies have vowed to step up efforts to catch drug cheats, and the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that it will test for all banned substances in a more aggressive program at next summer's Athens Olympics.
Behind closed doors, the grand jury is investigating BALCO, a San Francisco area firm and its owner, Victor Conte. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has pointed to BALCO, which specializes in nutrition supplements and has many top athletes among its clients, as the source of the new designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG.
Bonds, a San Francisco Giants outfielder, looked somber and serious and did not speak to reporters as he arrived at the courthouse with his attorney, Mike Rains.
New York Yankees slugger, Jason Giambi, who previously played for the Oakland Athletics, was also expected to testify on Thursday. Several other athletes who play or have played in the San Francisco area have also testified in recent weeks.
Bonds has denied taking any steroids, but Rains told Reuters last month that he could not rule out the possibility that his client might have unknowingly taken steroids hidden in nutritional shake supplements made by BALCO.
"Theoretically, one might take stuff orally and I guess it could be done that way," Rains said. "I guess anything is possible but we don't have any information or evidence to indicate that that was the case at this point."
THG use could not be detected until the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency developed a test for it.
Bonds was BALCO's most famous client and received free nutritional supplements and analysis from the firm based in Burlingame, California, for three years.
"I visit BALCO every three to six months," Bonds told 'Muscle and Fitness' magazine last year. "They check my blood to make sure my levels are what they should be.... I'm just shocked by what they have been able to do for me."
Although Bonds has not been named as a target, the grand jury probe has renewed questions about the holder of the Major League Baseball record for the most home runs in a season.
He was asked repeatedly about the subject at a news conference after he won his sixth MVP award last month. Police have searched the home of his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and the San Francisco Chronicle has reported they found illegal steroids there.
In recent years, the 39-year-old slugger has continued to defy age as he reaches toward baseball's most cherished mark -- Hank Aaron's all-time homer record.
Several leading track athletes and baseball stars, among them triple Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones and her partner, Tim Montgomery, the 100 meters world record holder, have already testified before a grand jury.
Five athletes, including European 100 meters champion Dwain Chambers of Britain, had previously tested positive for THG.
Many sports agencies have vowed to step up efforts to catch drug cheats, and the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that it will test for all banned substances in a more aggressive program at next summer's Athens Olympics.
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