John,
With all due respect, why do you chose to believe that Frank really said
this and it was not a mistake. Just because a reporter gets the quote in
the paper it doesn't make it true. If the reporter wanted to retract the
statement, it would appear on page 38. It really is just another
As a reporter myself, I have to agree, I suspect the reporter got
something scrambled, not Shorter. This was a pretty long story, and
stories of this length involve lots of notes. I try to tape every
interview I do, but sometimes I get caught without a recorder and
have to scribble on a pad.
I agree that I think Frank Shorter is too smart a guy to somehow think that
his American teammate was French, so I would tend to put that down to
confusion on the part of the reporter.
However, one thing that I think everyone is overlooking is that Frenn
injecting a steroid into his leg (and
and so agumenting his athletic
performance.
And a list followed which included anabolic steroids.
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From: Kurt Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Kurt Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 18:37:46 +
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Subject: Re: t-and-f: Shorter clarification
Could have been vitamin B12 - this sometimes is injected as it doesn't
absorb from the GI tract very easily.
-Buck Jones
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From: Kurt Bray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: t-and-f
There was an interesting steroid tidbit that came up in the NFL earlier this
year.
Pittsburgh quarterback Tommy Maddox injured his head and neck and briefly
lost all feeling in his limbs. As he was being rushed to the hospital, the
emergency medical people on the ambulance pumped him full of
Well, that rule is vague enough to ban just about anything stronger than
water. But how was that rule actually applied? Has anyone ever been
punished for testing positive for cortisone? Has cortisone ever even been
tested for?
My impression is that cortisone injections are and have always
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From: Bloomquist, Bret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:21 PM
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Subject: RE: t-and-f: Shorter clarification/Steroid question
There was an interesting steroid tidbit that came up in the NFL earlier this
year.
Pittsburgh quarterback
But I am disappointed that as a lawyer in charge of
an organization as
important as WADA that he'd attack a guy he didn't
really remember and
didn't have ironclad facts about. That's the
credibility issue that concerns
me.
Exactly. It's a bit disturbing that the head of USADA,
which has
