I seem to remeber a female swimmer appearing on tv with a Balco hat on. If I remember correctly, she was talking about how she began training for the 200 Olmypics and was using products from this company. She was helping them develop products for swimmers. I'm not real sure but I was really surprised at the time becasue I had heard about Balco from a friend who lives in San Fransisco and is a body builder. I, at the time, was still recovering from lots of surgeries and he told me about all of their "wonderful" products.
Steroids would probably be the last thing elite swimmers would be taking, if anything it would be EPO which until this year could not be detected.
Also, as far as 14/15 year old kids....don't forget the East German (and Chinease) programs! Unlikely that we'd find such a systematic program anywhere here but don't kid yourself.....there ARE parents (and coaches) that would go that route.
With the amount of money in sports its unlikely that we'll ever see a worldwdie effort to seriouslly reign in drug use. When we see consistent out of competition testing and life time bans we may see a change! (unlike baseball that allows5 positive tests till any action was taken, and Hockey that doens't test!)
Steroids would probably be the last thing elite swimmers would be taking, if anything it would be EPO which until this year could not be detected.
Also, as far as 14/15 year old kids....don't forget the East German (and Chinease) programs! Unlikely that we'd find such a systematic program anywhere here but don't kid yourself.....there ARE parents (and coaches) that would go that route.
With the amount of money in sports its unlikely that we'll ever see a worldwdie effort to seriouslly reign in drug use. When we see consistent out of competition testing and life time bans we may see a change! (unlike baseball that allows5 positive tests till any action was taken, and Hockey that doens't test!)
