6 Oct 2018

American Scandal: sporting cheats

From The Podcast Hour, 12:40 pm on 6 October 2018
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Back in the early 2000s, a steroids scandal rocked world sport. Famous athletes including the baseball player Barry Bonds , and the track star and Olympics' gold medalist Marion Jones, got caught taking performance enhancing drugs.

These drugs were supplied to them by BALCO, a San Francisco business offering its clients a smorgasbord of substances that won't show up in testing.

'American Scandal' tells the story of BALCO, its boss Victor Conte, and how he and his clients were brought to justice. And it brings it to life using sound in a way that could be borrowed from the movies. We play some of Episode 2 of American Scandal called Gold Medals and Bad Blood, hosted by Lindsay Graham for Wondery.