Steroid Cheats or Victims?

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R afael Palmeiro's actions are not in doubt. One way or another, he took steroids, and he admits as much.

But by amending his emphatic statement before Congress that "I never used steroids" with a single word - that word being "intentionally" - Mr. Palmeiro changed the debate, turning his cut- and-dried test result into a question of plausible deniability that has dogged baseball's new drug policy since its inception.

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Steroid Cheats or Victims?

To some researchers, the lack of regulation and testing of nutritional supplements lends credence to the claims of any player who says they were caught unaware by a positive steroid test.

For example, steroid building blocks known as prohormones - which may not be listed on supplement labels - could ca...

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