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December 15, 2009
Doctor who treated Woods faces FBI investigation into doping claims: reads the slightly inflamatory headline atop a story about Anthony Galea, a Toronto-based doctor who faces an investigation after a medicine bag belonging him was found to contain human growth hormones and Actovegin. Galea has links with several top athletes and worked with Tiger Woods during the golfer's recovery from knee surgery last year.
There is no suggestion in the New York Times story that any of these athletes took performance-enhancing drugs.
So, if I follow correctly, Galea has come up with a new treatment for injury which involves injecting the patient with his own blood, just a concentrated version of it. His assistant was caught with HGH crossing the border, though the circumstances for why he would have it aren't clear. They claim that their treatment is legal and that they've never used HGH to treat a patient.
I guess it just begs the question; why would a doctor be moving illegal drugs if he wasn't planning on using them? If he was using them to treat his patients without them knowing, can they be held liable?
Tiger may be shopping for a private island on Mars at this point.
posted by dfleming at 09:40 AM on December 15, 2009
I heard Tiger was also linked to global warming and is the one who created all those crop circles.
posted by smithnyiu at 09:52 AM on December 15, 2009
That's not what that article meant when it said he'd "fucked the world".
posted by JJ at 09:58 AM on December 15, 2009
dfleming - your comment confused me for a minute there. I read "injecting the patient with his own blood" to mean that Galea was giving them his blood. Then I combined that with the part of the article that said:
[Galea] has used human growth hormone himself for 10 years
That's how rumours start!
posted by JJ at 10:01 AM on December 15, 2009
I had sex with Tiger Woods while injecting him with steroids in a Mcdonalds bathroom just before the US Open. If more women keep coming forward, Tiger may have to get Greg Maddux to help him "make them disappear."
posted by Debo270 at 10:13 AM on December 15, 2009
I had sex with Tiger Woods while injecting him with steroids in a Mcdonalds bathroom just before the US Open.
No mention of Ambien use? LIES.
posted by dfleming at 10:26 AM on December 15, 2009
No mention of Ambien use? LIES.
I need to save something for the book.
posted by Debo270 at 10:30 AM on December 15, 2009
I'm surprised you haven't heard from Mark Steingberg yet, Debo270. He should be round any minute with a cheque.
posted by JJ at 10:31 AM on December 15, 2009
I had sex with Tiger Woods
When the flood of women were coming forward last week, I called my wife to make sure she never slept with Tiger Woods. She said she wanted to, but there was a line. And she hates lines.
posted by smithnyiu at 10:55 AM on December 15, 2009
Another women came forward today. Do you think the total will be 18(holes on a course, or 72(holes in a 4 day tournament. Do you think he has given a total number to his wife of justa rough estimate.
posted by Debo270 at 11:00 AM on December 15, 2009
I'm a few months older than Tiger. I played about 3/4 of a season of mid-level amateur golf this year. I only have one girlfriend, but I was still mostly exhausted all the time. I can't conceive of how he found the energy, let alone the time, for all of this.
I suppose I do hold down a full-time job at the same time. If he was only putting as much effort into his whoring around as I put into my work it's no wonder he had to spread it around.
posted by JJ at 11:16 AM on December 15, 2009
I sense the sentiment here is that, if Tiger did use performance enhancing drugs, he used them unintentionally. I have felt for a long time that the lanky young man who initially presented himself as the youngest (21) person to ever win the masters evaporated at some point along the way. This is a ripped hunk of a guy who begs a closer look.
posted by ultrarunner at 01:19 PM on December 15, 2009
Can I be the first (in this thread) to snicker at "performance enhancers"? While the usual steroid consideration is due in this case, Woods might have been trying to enhance a different kind of performance.
posted by boredom_08 at 02:39 PM on December 15, 2009
I can't conceive of how he found the energy
It looks like he traded up on his viagra to HGH. Didn't he do a celebrity pro-am with Barry Bonds?
posted by irunfromclones at 08:42 PM on December 15, 2009
All of us who are into this thread only tells me most of us ARE monkeys.
posted by wildbill1 at 07:12 AM on December 16, 2009
The difference between Tiger and Santa?...Santa only has three Hos...
posted by wildbill1 at 07:20 AM on December 16, 2009
Thought appropriate what for the season and all....
posted by wildbill1 at 07:21 AM on December 16, 2009
This is a ripped hunk of a guy who begs a closer look.
Nothing wrong with Tige being ripped if he came by it honestly.
His physique is a welcome respite from all the jelly bellies and man boobs that bounce past the tournament cameras every weekend.
Actually, what the Tour players look like doesn't really matter to me until the hypemeisters launch into another round of touting the PGA pros as the world's finest athletes.
At that point, evidence of fitness becomes an issue. At least in my man cave it does.
All the pros now realize what a bad idea it is to have a chain o' girls. Some of the guys on tour need to develop some discipline about the imported beer and clubhouse canneloni as well. And do some intervals now and then, dudes. It won't ruin your game.
posted by beaverboard at 11:05 AM on December 16, 2009
We probably need another Tiger Woods post like Tiger himself needs a PED scandal so feel free to remove this, rcade. Just thought it was worth it for the Mark Steinberg quote alone:
Asked to comment on Woods' involvement with Galea, the golfer's agent, Mark Steinberg of IMG, said in an email to the New York Times: "I would really ask that you guys don't write this? If Tiger is not implicated, and won't be, let's please give the kid a break."
These 33-year-old kids nowadays...