[外電] Orioles’ Gibbons Will Be Investigated
Orioles' Gibbons Will Be Investigated
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: September 10, 2007
Major League Baseball said yesterday that it would investigate Baltimore
Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons for his connection to numerous shipments of
performance-enhancing drugs.
SI.com reported last night that Gibbons received shipments of steroids and
human growth hormone from an Orlando, Fla.-based pharmacy that is being
investigated by the Albany County district attorney’s office.
It is not the first time Gibbons has been linked to performance-enhancing
drugs. In 2006, The Los Angeles Times reported the existence of a document in
which Gibbons had been named as someone who used banned substances by Jason
Grimsley, a former relief pitcher who played for the Orioles from 2004 to
2005.
The report was disputed by the United States attorney’s office in the
Northern District of California for containing “significant inaccuracies.”
SI.com reported that Gibbons was mailed two shipments of testosterone and six
shipments of Genotropin, a brand name for human growth hormone, and two
shipments of another hormone, between October 2003 and July 2005.
Testosterone was banned by Major League Baseball in 2003. Human growth
hormone was added to the list of banned substances in January 2005. Gibbons,
according to SI.com, received a shipment in July of that year. Major League
Baseball does not test for H.G.H.
The prescriptions were processed by Signature Pharmacy, the Orlando-based
pharmacy, and were written to Gibbons, SI.com said.
The investigation of Signature Pharmacy, which has spanned two years, has
resulted in the indictments of 22 people, with 9 convictions. No players have
been charged.
Major League Baseball announced Friday that it would investigate reports that
linked St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel and Toronto Blue Jays third
baseman Troy Glaus to the purchases of performance-enhancing drugs from the
same pharmacy.
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