Report: Bonds failed steroid test in 2000
UPDATE (2-14-08; 9:35 PM): According to MLB XM, there was a typo in the initial report, and Bonds actually failed the drug test in November 2000, which would be just a few months before he began his record breaking 73 home run season.
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The Toronto Star is reporting that Barry Bonds tested positive for a steroid test just a month after breaking the single-season home run record. Bonds reportedly failed a test in November 2001. The allegation came from a legal filing in regards to his steroid perjury case.
“At trial, the government’s evidence will show that Bonds received steroids from [long-time trainer Greg] Anderson in the period before the November 2001 positive drug test, and that evidence raises the inference that Anderson gave Bonds the steroids that caused him to test positive in November 2001,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello wrote.
In December 2007, Bonds pleaded not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury in 2003 when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
The Star also reports that Bonds also “discussed or took human growth hormone.”
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