Former baseball player and anabolic steroid advocate Jose Canseco was hired as a spokesman for a supplement company appearing at the company’s booth at the 2008 Arnold Classic. Testosterone Nation reports that Canseco is working with MVP Nutrition since he spent so much time talking to world fitness champion Michele Levesque.
So, you admit to using steroids. Then a supplement company hires you to say you built your muscles using their pills and powders? Um, okay. Canseco seemed to spend most of his time macking on the hired booth booty anyway.
But Jose Canseco actually works for German American Technologies, makers of Jet Fuel. Oops. Perhaps, GAT should consider hiring some attractive booth help to keep Jose from straying and inadvertently promoting the competition?
However, the most humorous anecdotes involving Canseco at the Arnold Classic involve the comments he received from Expo attendees (“iWitness: Arnold Sports Festival,” March 6):
[B]oth at the EXPO and the after-party, people kept walking by yelling “juicer!” and “steroid user!” at Canseco. Uh, you’re at the Arnold. Calling someone a juicer here is like walking into a porn convention and calling the women sluts. It’s, you know, kinda the whole idea.
How could they be oblivious to be surrounding by thousands upon thousands of anabolic steroid users the entire weekend? With over 150,000 people attending the Arnold Sports Festival, including a significant percentage of bodybuilders and athletes who use steroids, this event probably holds the record for the highest concentration of steroid users in a single location!
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Millard writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.
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