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It’s now more than 20 years since the BALCO scandal shook the world of professional sport to its foundations, but the aftershocks are still being felt with public trust in elite performance yet to recover.
It was and will forever be the most shocking and sensational sports exposé: a conspiracy to create and deliver undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to some of the most high-profile athletes in the world to give them an insurmountable advantage to dominate their rivals.
Household names, including Olympic gold medalist sprinter Marion Jones - who was forced to return her five Olympic medals - and men’s 100m sprinter Tim Montgomery - whose world record time was struck from the history books - became synonymous with the scandal. Others, such as multiple Major League Baseball MVP and record home run hitter Barry Bonds, were implicate ...
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