Powell connected to Galea in Toronto, and Galea lawyers up...no kidding

hold your horses

having a lawyer =/= guilt

read the constitution

I know that. By itself, it does not.

I'm not talking about that in isolation, though--I'm talking about the total pattern of events, of which that--or at least the assertion of privilege--is only one inevitable, and critical, aspect.

Please tell me that you understand what I'm saying.

Dude, are you off your meds or something?

Sprintgeezer is right. Hiring Greenspan as your lawyer tells us all we need to know. People from Toronto understand.

Geezer...you said that Donovan Bailey was clean, and in fact, Bailey was Galea's client. Furthermore, Galea was treating Bailey AND Surin.

So, do you think that 9.84 is clean? Personally, I don't. Bailey was injured prior to Atlanta!!

Same with Bruny Surin and his 9.84. He also was client of this Magical doctor.

check out this link

http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesColumnists/gross_jul29.html

There's a human limit. For me...I think that sub 9.85 denotes drugs.

The anti aging chiro in Atlanta, Clayton Gibson, also has lawyered up. He claims to have done due to 'comments that have been made publicly.' That, to me, indicates he might be the person that Gay trusted.

Here is the article that is linked on the LR hompage

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130716/tyson-gay-positive-test-news/?sct=hp_t2_a5&eref=sihp

"...Asked if he makes creams that might contain substances banned in track, Gibson said he was not sure and that, "I don't make creams," but added, "We have labs that make those."

hahaha...what elusive!! and he thinks that people are stupid? We don't care if you or the labe make the cream...the thing is "IF YOU PUT THE CREAM OR NOT".

"...With respect to the blood testing he conducted on Gay, Gibson said it was used to give a baseline so that he could "use herbs, vitamins, and minerals for balancing the overall body, where there are deficiencies based off of lab work..."

Drivel. He tested Gay in the same way that East Germans or Russian tested their athletes in a ship. Those who failed, were put as "DNS".

See Victor Conte's twitter today.First off, we have five more Russian dopers (not T&F, though).More on Xuereb:http://t.co/S8ZOPpbdo6Then there is this one:

Victor Conte ‏@VictorConte 15 Jul

JADCO (Jamaican Anti-Doping) needs investigation. No transparency? No testing statistics provided for 5 yrs?

Conte is claiming that Tyson Gay tested positive as a result of DHEA cream from that anti-aging doctor, and this is correct, Gay tested positive for testosterone and that will likely be the end of him (as an international sprinter, that is). If Asafa only tested positive for a stimulant, he probably gets somehting like 3 months and will be back next year.

This is a link to the whole interview of Steven Francis that I posted tweets from two days ago. Interesting comments about "Canadians" by which I presume he means the Dr. Galea and not just Chris Xuereb:

So 9.85 = clean and 9.84 = dirty ?? So a 9.84 (+1 m/s) is dirty and a 9.85 (0 m/s) is clean. Strong Logic.

I will give Bailey the (smallest possible) benefit of the doubt (even though, yeah he was such a late bloomer), mainly because he ran after the Ben Johnson scandal and I recall him, or Surin saying that they were heavily tested or hounded because of that ( as Canada wouldn't have allowed another scandal to happen).

As for Galea,he's basically a PRP treatment (google it) expert he was pretty much Team Canada's "best" athletes doctor during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 (and not only T&F athletes).

dsfsffa wrote:

So 9.85 = clean and 9.84 = dirty ?? So a 9.84 (+1 m/s) is dirty and a 9.85 (0 m/s) is clean. Strong Logic.

I said 9.84 because that were the PB's of Bailey and Surin...and the SB of Tyson Gay when all folks assumed he began with his doping regime.

dsfsffa wrote:I will give Bailey the (smallest possible) benefit of the doubt (even though, yeah he was such a late bloomer), mainly because he ran after the Ben Johnson scandal and I recall him, or Surin saying that they were heavily tested or hounded because of that ( as Canada wouldn't have allowed another scandal to happen).

Marion Jones passed 162 tests or something similar...Lance passed hundreds of tests. For sure we could say that they were "heavily tested"!

SOME INTERESTING QUOTES:

"Galea's medical assistant, Mary Anne Catalano, told U.S. and Canadian investigators that Galea injected drug cocktails containing human growth hormone (HGH), a performance-enhancing drug banned by nearly every sports organization in the world, into the injured knees of some athletes. Galea has denied giving any athletes any drugs banned by their sports."

"The picture that emerges of Galea as the case proceeds through the U.S. and Canadian courts could be critical if concrete evidence links specific athletes to HGH treatments. Though Canadian court documents state that "it is quite possible that some of the Professional athletes are totally unaware of the fact that they were receiving unapproved drugs," skeptical anti-doping officials say ignorance would be no excuse."

"Galea has been publicly associated in the past decade with dozens of professional athletes, including NHL players Tie Domi, Adam Foote, Jason Spezzi, Gary Roberts and Steve Moore; Canadian track and field stars Donovan Bailey, Bruny Surin, Perdita Felicien, Mark McKoy, Desai Williams and Mark Boswell; NFL players Javon Walker, Ricky Williams, Takeo Spikes and Chris Simms; Major League Baseball players Huston Street, John Patterson, Carlos Beltrán, José Reyes and Carlos Delgado; and Olympic swimmer Dara Torres."

"Galea first garnered international attention for his work with Canadian Olympic gold medal winner Donovan Bailey as he made a comeback from a torn Achilles' tendon. After Bailey underwent surgery in 1999, Galea put Bailey's foot in a special shoe rather than a cast while having him undergo daily oxygen treatments in a hyperbaric chamber and workouts in a pool. Despite the severe nature of his injury, Bailey showed world-class speed in the summer of 2000, though he did not perform well at the Olympics because of the flu."

"Around that time, Galea also began administering "shock-wave therapy," a rehabilitation technique that involves sending electrical charges through an injured area. He used the treatment on the injured leg of Jamaican sprinter and Olympic bronze medal winner Michelle Freeman -- and many others -- before it was approved for use in the United States. Galea and a colleague had attended a clinic on shock-wave therapy around the time it was undergoing trials by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and then brought the therapy back to Toronto, luring many clients from the United States."

"Galea, who declined an interview request through his attorneys for this story, told the Montreal Gazette in 1999 that though some innovative techniques had been "boo-hooed as quackery or witchcraft, now we know that if it works and does no harm to the patients, then let's do it. The bottom line is, the results are better and the patients are getting better."

"By then, Galea was regularly performing plasma-rich platelet injections, the blood-spinning technique used on Woods and, according to the indictment, many of Galea's current athlete clients. Known as PRP, the technique involves taking a blood sample from an injured player, spinning it in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets and growth factors, and re-injecting it into the site of an injury. Though the jury is out on its effectiveness, the procedure has entered the medical mainstream in the past couple of years."

"PRP is allowed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) under certain conditions, though an athlete needs to obtain a "therapeutic use exemption" before utilizing it. Galea requested one on Chan's behalf last October, and got it. Chan, who had an injured calf, finished fifth in the men's singles event at the Vancouver Winter Games."

"Last September, Galea's assistant, Catalano, was detained at the U.S.-Canadian border near Buffalo. In her car, agents found 111 syringes, one centrifuge machine, one ultrasound machine, and a bag with 20 vials and 76 ampules of various substances, including 250 milliliters of the unapproved drug Actovegin, which is not banned by sports leagues, and 2 mililiters of Nutropin, a type of HGH"

"Galea's Canadian-based attorney, Brian Greenspan, said the HGH was intended only for Galea's personal use (in Canada, HGH is legal for anti-aging purposes; in the United States, it is legal only for a narrow range of medical conditions), and represented just two daily doses."

"Catalano, however, told Canadian investigators she watched Galea administer a "cocktail" of drugs including HGH to seven professional athletes during the visits to the United States. She also said, according to a Canadian search warrant, that she "believed" one of those HGH cocktails was administered last Aug. 12 to the same Washington-area athlete she was on her way to meet when arrested. A U.S. source identified that athlete as Moss."

Still, other noted athlete doctors such as Frank Jobe, Richard Steadman and James Andrews bolstered their credibility by publishing in medical journals; those three, in fact, have authored or co-authored more than 120 articles. Galea has written a book but has never had a single article published in a peer-reviewed journal.

"I asked him, 'Why aren't you publishing?' " said Adi Fridman, an orthopedic surgeon in Jerusalem who observed Galea's work during a two-month stay in Toronto in 2008. "He said, 'It's not interesting to me. I'm interested in treating people, not publishing.' "

"It's hard to believe someone can claim to be legitimate when they are meeting in hotel rooms and sending someone over the border one way while they're going another way to treat athletes," said Travis Tygart, the chief executive officer for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "That raises the antennae of even the most liberal thinkers."