Untold: Hall of Shame, Examine one of sports' biggest steroid scandals via interviews with the head of the BALCO lab, athletes suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs, and more. Despite having served time for his role in the BALCO scandal, Victor Conte stands out for being unrepentant. The latest edition of Netflix’s sports docuseries Untold Hall of Shame, gives him another moment in the spotlight, providing a once-over-lightly rehash of track, football and especially baseball figures who became the focus of controversy over performance-enhancing drugs. Of course, to hear Conte tell it, the sports world was already rife with the use of banned substances before his company, BALCO, made the pivot in 2000 from supplements to “the clear,” a steroid that had the obvious advantage of being undetectable by testing methods. Given that, Conte argues that he wasn’t providing players/clients with an unfair advantage as much as simply helping level the playing field, telling the filmmakers, “If those are the real rules of the game, then you’re not cheating.”
Related Posts
Victor Conte, SNAC founder, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
By Lance Pugmire Victor Conte, the controversial and self-described reformed supervisor of several elite boxers’ conditioning programs, has been diagnosed...
The Notorious Drug Peddler On A Mission To Clean Up Boxing
By Rick Broadbent Victor Conte was jailed for conspiring to distribute steroids, but now the scientist and one-time musician tells...
Investigating boxing’s unhealthy relationship with performance enhancing drugs
By Tris Dixon For many who look at boxing’s greater good, the subject of governance is a bone of contention....