Here's More on Patrick Arnold and BALCO<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nFormer BALCO chemist and prominent Elite Fitness member Patrick Arnold has landed himself in hot water once again saying he has proof that some of sports\u2019 greatest athletes ever are using steroids.<\/p>\n
To say that the career of chemist and elitefitness.com member Patrick Arnold has been controversial is like saying apples are apples \u2013 It\u2019s obvious!! I mean the man has been credited for being the first person to bring prohormones to the mainstream market with his most notorious one being androstenedione (a.k.a. Andro) which fueled Mark McGuire\u2019s amazing record-breaking baseball season in 1998.<\/p>\n
As if this didn\u2019t provide enough material for the sports crazed media, he then went and created designer steroids such as THG (commonly referred to as \u201cThe Clear\u201d), norbolethone, and desoxymethyltestosterone (DMT) that could be used by athletes without turning up a positive drug test (at the time).<\/p>\n
Not stopping here, Arnold (who has frequently posted on elitefitness.com forums under the name pa1ad) also supplied BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) with these designer steroids which were shipped to some of the top athletes in the world in sports ranging from track and field to professional football. Unfortunately, this also earned him a three month prison stint at Morgantown Federal Correctional Institution in West Virginia.<\/p>\n
However, since his release from prison, Arnold has vowed a life of \u201cclean living\u201d and wants to stay away from doing anything illegal. But if you think that means he\u2019ll be any less controversial, then you\u2019d be totally wrong. This is especially clear after some statements he recently made in an interview with sports broadcasting legend Bob Costas on the HBO series \u201cCostas Now\u201d.<\/p>\n
The episode of Costas Now that Arnold appeared on revolved around the subject of Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron\u2019s all-time home run record of 755. It was about more than just the home run record though as Costas wanted to take a deeper look into how Barry Bonds was able to reach this point \u2013 particularly in relation to alleged steroid usage by the Giants slugger.<\/p>\n
And Costas knew that there was no one better to talk to about this subject than the man behind the designer steroids Barry was rumored to have been using during this incredible chase towards the record. So he called Patrick Arnold to be on his program and Arnold, who was appearing on national TV for the first time, definitely delivered.<\/p>\n
The interview began with some informative subject matter such as explaining a little about Arnold and how during his teenage bodybuilding days, he began to dabble in steroids which led to his passion for practicing chemistry in the field of performance enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n
![\"PatrickArnoldTrial\"](\"\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/images\/bodybuilder\/PatrickArnold.jpg\")
<\/strong> Then the interview went on to explain how Patrick got involved with Victor Conte and the BALCO company. Arnold explained that Conte wanted to know if Andro would show up on an Olympic drug test to which Patrick said, \u201cBasically I told him if you wanna go that route I know of much better things, and much better things being actual, newly derived synthetic designer steroids.\u201d<\/p>\nThe show went on to explain how Arnold created THG by altering the molecular structure of an anabolic steroid and making it so it would be invisible to a drug test. Taken in liquid form under the tongue, The Clear would become one of the most powerful steroids on the market according to Arnold.<\/p>\n
But the merely informative section would end here as he would drop his first bomb of the interview when Costas mentioned how nine-time baseball all-star Gary Sheffield said he had never taken steroids because they \u201care something you shoot in your butt.\u201d Arnold responded by saying, \u201cThat's an ignorant statement or it\u2019s some sort of weird rationalization. No, he took steroids. This is a bona fide anabolic steroid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then the interview started getting really good when the subject of Barry Bonds came up. Costas asked Patrick how much contact he had with Barry Bonds to which he stated, \u201cI\u2019ve never met Barry Bonds, I\u2019ve never talked to him on the phone. All I\u2019ve ever heard was Victor telling me how great Barry\u2019s doing. You know, how Barry\u2019s on the program. His reaction time is better than ever. And how he feels great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Costas asked Arnold to clarify what he meant by being on the program and if that meant Bonds was taking steroids. Arnold said, \u201cI have a very strong feeling about it since he was on\u2026the program. And like everyone else, the program consisted of... of The Clear.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, we have Part 1 of a two part article, BALCO Chemist & EF Member Patrick Arnold’s Shocking Steroid Comments on Victor Conte, Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield – Part 1 – we’ll have part 2 in a few days. Here’s More on Patrick Arnold and BALCO Former BALCO chemist and prominent Elite Fitness member Patrick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":42755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"yoast_head":"\n
BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments - Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"da_DK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments - Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, we have Part 1 of a two part article, BALCO Chemist & EF Member Patrick Arnold's Shocking Steroid Comments on Victor Conte, Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield - Part 1 - we'll have part 2 in a few days. Here's More on Patrick Arnold and BALCO Former BALCO chemist and prominent Elite Fitness member Patrick […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-06T17:28:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-06-20T00:33:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"444\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George Spellwin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"George Spellwin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/\",\"name\":\"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments - Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-06-06T17:28:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-06-20T00:33:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/4aaef57de32df04f713c17bc2d4ea0c0\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"da-DK\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"da-DK\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg\",\"width\":270,\"height\":444,\"caption\":\"Patrick Arnold walks to the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, April 28, 2006. Arnold, a noted scientist in the sports nutritional supplement world pleaded guilty Friday to supplying the Bay Area Laboratory-Cooperative with the performance-enhancing drug known as \\\"the clear.\\\" He's scheduled to be sentenced in August and will likely face three months in jail and three months of home detention. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/\",\"name\":\"Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"da-DK\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/4aaef57de32df04f713c17bc2d4ea0c0\",\"name\":\"George Spellwin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"da-DK\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/988e59ea7f4c1d743f451b467a36b632?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitefitness.com%2Farticles%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmagazine-pro%2Fimages%2Fgrav_img.png&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/988e59ea7f4c1d743f451b467a36b632?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitefitness.com%2Farticles%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmagazine-pro%2Fimages%2Fgrav_img.png&r=g\",\"caption\":\"George Spellwin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/author\/george-spellwin\/\"},false]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments - Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/","og_locale":"da_DK","og_type":"article","og_title":"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments - Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com","og_description":"Today, we have Part 1 of a two part article, BALCO Chemist & EF Member Patrick Arnold's Shocking Steroid Comments on Victor Conte, Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield - Part 1 - we'll have part 2 in a few days. Here's More on Patrick Arnold and BALCO Former BALCO chemist and prominent Elite Fitness member Patrick […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/","og_site_name":"Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com","article_published_time":"2015-06-06T17:28:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-06-20T00:33:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":270,"height":444,"url":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"George Spellwin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"George Spellwin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/","url":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/","name":"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments - Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg","datePublished":"2015-06-06T17:28:18+00:00","dateModified":"2015-06-20T00:33:45+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/4aaef57de32df04f713c17bc2d4ea0c0"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"da-DK","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"da-DK","@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PatrickArnold.jpg","width":270,"height":444,"caption":"Patrick Arnold walks to the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, April 28, 2006. Arnold, a noted scientist in the sports nutritional supplement world pleaded guilty Friday to supplying the Bay Area Laboratory-Cooperative with the performance-enhancing drug known as \"the clear.\" He's scheduled to be sentenced in August and will likely face three months in jail and three months of home detention. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/balco-controversy-labs-chemist\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BALCO Labs Chemist and EF Member Patrick Arnold Stirs Huge Controversy with Shocking Steroid Comments"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/","name":"Articles and Blog - EliteFitness.com","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"da-DK"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/4aaef57de32df04f713c17bc2d4ea0c0","name":"George Spellwin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"da-DK","@id":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/988e59ea7f4c1d743f451b467a36b632?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitefitness.com%2Farticles%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmagazine-pro%2Fimages%2Fgrav_img.png&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/988e59ea7f4c1d743f451b467a36b632?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitefitness.com%2Farticles%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmagazine-pro%2Fimages%2Fgrav_img.png&r=g","caption":"George Spellwin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/author\/george-spellwin\/"},false]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42757,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/42757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}