Barry Bonds, baseball's disgraced former homerun champ, has often been cited in conversations comparing the relative efforts of various sports to cycling in their 'cleanup' efforts. I still get a belly laugh when I read the same BS so often peppered throughout these players' quotes about PED usage during their careers. If the excuses didn't hold a thimble of water for Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis, Geneviève Jeanson, Marion Jones, et al, what makes them think they're going to fly now? I just shake my head.
Bonds has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury about whether he knowingly used steroids. ... Bonds told the grand jury he did not knowingly use steroids or growth hormones and said he never questioned the flaxseed oil, vitamins, protein shakes and creams his trainer, Greg Anderson, supplied him
