Syringe Containing Roger Clemens’ Blood Mixed with Anabolic Steroids

Brian McNamee has turned over steroid syringes, vials and gauze pads to federal investigators that allegedly contain physical evidence supporting McNamee’s claim that he injected baseball player Roger Clemens with anabolic steroids and growth hormone. I didn’t see that coming.

It is simply bizarre that McNamee would have saved such items for seven years; I am sure there will be considerable speculation as to his motives. But the evidence could increase McNamee’s credibility if the physical evidence is consistent with his allegations of steroid use and growth hormone by Clemens. Steroid Nation explains how the physical evidence would support the allegations:

DNA matching could prove the Clemens connection.  When an injection is performed a small amount the the recipient’s blood is back-washed into the syringe.  That would allow DNA testing to verify Rocket-DNA; forensic analysis could also identify anabolic steroids.

While the physical evidence could corroborate McNamee’s statements, legal experts debate whether the evidence is admissible in court and the likelihood that such evidence would successfully be discredited by defense attorneys.

I also found it somewhat bizarre as well that the New York Times tried to suggest a similarity between the bloody syringe and Roger Clemens with the controversial retroactive testing of Lance Armstrong’s urine sample a few years ago:

The newest development in the Clemens case is similar to an issue that cyclist Lance Armstrong, long under suspicion of using performance-enhancing drugs, confronted in 2006. In that instance, the International Cycling Union discounted a reported link between Armstrong and the banned substance EPO because they concluded that testers had not followed proper procedures in retroactively testing Armstrong’s 1999 urine samples five years later.

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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.