Victor Conte to Give Juice-y Details on Steroids Cheaters

World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound is getting an early Christmas gift – so to are all athletes determined to play fair and avoid the horrors of steroids and performance “enhancers.”  Ex-BALCO Chief Victor Conte will name names and share files and information with WADA in what may herald a greater assault on Major League Baseball as being “soft” on catching drug cheats and imposing penalties.

With the Mitchell report due out Thursday, MLB spent the last week falling all over themselves to once again protect the player, sweep the problem under the rug and claim a mere fig leaf of credibility by handing down wrist-slaps of 15 days to a handful of players caught receiving HGH or other performance enhancers.  Now with hard evidence possibly coming to light, Congress and society may get a remarkably clear view of exactly how out of touch MLB and the owners may be in their wet noodle Mitchell Investigation.  An investigation report that appears mild and tepid would look horrific in light of the airtight cases that can and have been built around the voluminous and chronological files kept by BALCO.
Selig will have no place to hide.

From the Daily News article:

“I plan to share specific knowledge of past and present Olympic-caliber athletes, coaches and suppliers involved with doping around the world and how they’ve been able to easily circumvent the anti-doping procedures in place.”

Conte, who still sells legal dietary supplements out of his Burlingame, Calif., office, circumvented drug-testers in 2000-03 by giving athletes previously undetectable designer steroids known as “the clear” and “the cream.” He now says he believes he can help clean up Olympic sports, pointing out that Jones was forced to give back her five medals from the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney but that the athletes in line to receive them might also have had help.

“Several of Jones’ competitors may have also used performance-enhancing drugs and it’s important that what I have to share be considered before the IOC awards any medal upgrades,” he said.”

Meanwhile, retired Met first baseman David Segui admitted using steroids sold to him by a Mets locker room attendant – for all intents and purposes an invisible, untraceable figure – but them refused to cooperate with the Mitchell Investigation.