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Post by Head Booker on Mar 6, 2007 14:18:49 GMT -6
KURT ANGLE NAMED IN STEROID INVESTIGATION, LISTED AS RECEIVING TWO PRESCRIPTIONS by Dave Scherer @ 12:36:00 PM on 3/6/2007 Sports Illustrated has a very detailed story on their website today concerning the recent allegation of steroid/HGH sales at Florida's Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center. The story initially broke last week when a number of pro athletes were listed as customers. Today, SI has added Kurt Angle to lists of people unearthed in the investigation, writing: "Kurt Angle, a 1996 Olympic gold-medal-winning freestyle wrestler and now a star professional wrestler, received two prescriptions for trenbolone and one for nandrolone between October 2004 and February '05. (Angle did not return messages left with his spokesman.)" Both of those drugs are steroids. As the piece mentioned, he had prescriptions ffilled for the drugs and was in WWE at the time they were filled. To read the entire piece, click here. |
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Post by Icon Lord Sean "Magic" Fiery on Mar 6, 2007 16:09:52 GMT -6
That's not surprising in the least.
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Mar 6, 2007 16:17:51 GMT -6
It isn't really, is it? lol...
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Post by Head Booker on Mar 6, 2007 20:18:11 GMT -6
Here is a follow up on the story posted earlier about Kurt Angle being linked to steroids in a sting focused on the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center. Angle was one of many star athletes named in the sting as clients of the center.
Dave Meltzer reports that Angle failed a steroid test for nandralone (decadurabolin) prior to being released by WWE last year. At the time, WWE suspended Angle for 30 days and he and WWE later had a falling out, opening the door for him to go to TNA. Nandralone is one of the drugs that the report claims Angle got through the center between October 2004 and February 2005.
If Angle was using the drugs, it may not have been illegal since he had a prescription for them. The only legal reason to prescribe steroids is for medical reasons and most athletes (and wrestlers) could get prescriptions for steroids, claiming they use them to rehabilitate injuries. Of course, WWE allows its wrestlers to use steroids for medical reasons, something other sports organizations and worldwide competitions (ie the Olympics) don't allow.
Credit: WrestlingObserver.com
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Post by Head Booker on Mar 8, 2007 18:07:03 GMT -6
Kurt Angle has responded to the Sports Illustrated story which includes his name in relation to a steroid bust in Florida. The following was posted on kurtangletna.net.
The following is a statement from Kurt Angle regarding the recent Sports Illustrated media reports about the use by athletes of performance enhancing drugs obtained through the internet:
I did not improperly receive prescriptions. It is well documented that in my career I have broken vertebrae in my neck on five occasions and each time the course of treatment was under the care and supervision of my Doctors. Any attempt to link me to the athletes in the current news accounts who may have improperly sought performance-enhancing drugs is without foundation.
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Post by Icon Lord Sean "Magic" Fiery on Mar 9, 2007 3:32:46 GMT -6
Kurt would deny that...
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Mar 9, 2007 5:31:18 GMT -6
Who wouldn't?
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Post by Head Booker on Mar 19, 2007 20:14:50 GMT -6
Eleven professional wrestlers, including the WWE's Randy Orton, have joined the list of athletes linked to a nationwide steroids investigation.
SI.com reported Monday that Orton allegedly received eight prescriptions for six different drugs — including stanozolol, nandrolone and testosterone — between March 2004 and August 2004. According to the documents SI.com reviewed, two doctors whose names also appear in Gary Matthews Jr.'s file, wrote prescriptions for Orton.
Orton, through the WWE, declined comment, SI.com said.
In its review of documents, SI.com reported it found Adam Copeland, a.k.a. Edge, and Shane Helms, a.k.a. The Hurricane, received HGH from Applied Pharmacy in Mobile, Ala., one of the pharmacies raided in the investigation led by Albany, N.Y., District Attorney David Soares.
Through the WWE, Copeland and Helms didn't respond to a request for comment, SI.com said.
WWE spokesman Gary Davis told SI.com that WWE policy prohibits performance-enhancing drugs but would not say whether any wrestlers have tested positive since the policy was enacted.
Also linked to the scandal, in various reports, are baseball's Jose Canseco, John Rocker, Jerry Hairston Jr. and David Bell, former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, Pittsburgh Steelers doctor Richard Rydze, 1996 Olympic wrestling gold medalist Kurt Angle and bodybuilder Victor Martinez.
Monday, SI.com also reported Arizona doctor David Wilbirt's name has come up in multiple files, including Angle, Oscar Gutierrez (stage name Rey Mysterio) and former WWE star Eddie Guerrero, who died in 2005.
Through the WWE, Gutierrez declined comment to SI.com about the report that Wilbirt had prescribed him nandrolone and stanozolol.
Wilbirt told SI.com he's not practicing medicine now.
"I'll tell you one thing and then this conversation is going to end," Wilbirt told SI.com when asked about the professional wrestlers. "They had done blood work and had laboratory work done and they had come to see me."
credit The Associated Press (Yahoo Homepage)
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Post by Icon Lord Sean "Magic" Fiery on Mar 20, 2007 3:31:29 GMT -6
I really don't think Edge or Helms would do that. I mean, neither of them have really gone up in size at all (Edge has gone more down since his return)... The others I can suspect, though.
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