How Olympic Sports Doping Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider

Victor Conte is a sports coach who designed doping programs with world-class athletes. Through his platform, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, he supplied an untraceable designer steroid among other drugs to competitors who dominated the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.

Conte used a transparent anabolic steroid nicknamed "the clear" in training programs with track athletes such as Marion Jones, and Tim Montgomery. He also developed doping programs for athletes in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and other sports federations.

Conte served four months in prison for illegal distribution of steroids and money laundering. He later rebuilt his career as a sports promoter and anti-doping advocate in boxing, and he's since worked with Nonito Donaire, Andre Ward, Andre Berto, and Devin Haney.

Conte talks about the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Enhanced Games, and the future of doping in sports.

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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - The Connection
02:08 - The Drugs
03:53 - The Distribution
04:48 - The Sydney Olympics
06:36 - The Testing
10:07 - The Corruption
12:12 - Russia
13:47 - The Money
16:30 - The Fallout
18:14 - The Paris Olympics
20:28 - The Future Of Doping
21:54 - The Aftermath
24:35 - Credits

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[asmasam]

Oh I love this, he's dropping names and they're not censoring or editing it out

[jimclawley]

All athletes now say “I’ve never failed a drugs test” not “ I don’t take drugs”. It’s the Lance Armstrong effect

[mania.v]

"You use or you lose" totally grounded me.

[northwoods-fnlc]

Gotta respect someone that just comes out and spills all the beans.

This is more interesting than I thought it would be.

[dominusmaximus]

Awesome series. Whoever has been finding these fascinating, straight talking individuals has been doing a fantastic job.

[nvmjrbn]

I was a runner, weight lifter, and health nut all my adult life. After 20+ years, I decided to try one cycle of testosterone to gain weight. It was unbelievable. In 6 weeks I gained at least 6 pounds of muscle mass. After two hours in the gym, I would go home just because I thought I should, not because I was tired. And the next day? Jump out of bed in the morning, do 8 hours on my feet at factory job, then hit the gym for another two hours. NEVER got tired. NEVER got sore. Everyone I knew commented on my new size within a few weeks. The drugs are crazy!

[catheriner]

Nowadays whenever sports commentators say an athlete has "turned back the clock" or "come back quickly from injury" or "came out of nowhere" I assume it's drugs 100%.

[allysmith]

My big brother was a top, competitive athlete for hurdles here in Aus…. Once he got to a certain level and despite being amazing, realised he couldn’t compete with the “big boys” because he wouldn’t use performance enhancing meds etc…. Ironically he is an industrial chemist and could probably make most of the substances they talk about but doesn’t…… uses his skills as a chemical expert for the fire department and saves lives everyday

[Breakbeats.]

"Used to be if you hit 30 home runs you were a god. Now you hit 30 home runs and your looking for a job." Jose Canseco - on the impact of performance enhancing substances in MLB.

[doratheexploder]

so much corruption and bias in sports ped testing and penalties. Like Nick Diaz got a 5 year ban for smoking weed, but others fighters got 6 months for cocaine, or even less for actual anabolic postive tests. It`s all about the money, if you`re a big earner, you get a pass.

[uzernam]

I did PED when i was in my late 20's and early 30's... let me tell you, you become and feel super human. Muscles are constantly full and dense, fat loss is VERY easy with a simple diet, your mood is like another level of confidence, strength is unbelievable. For me, i never experienced bad side effects but everyone is different. PED's take you to another level.

[dshaw]

Let’s not act surprised when in several years later our multi million advertising heroes such as Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and all those super stars appear mentioned in these kind of documentaries

[maxlysenko]

lol, dude were selling steroids for like 20 years, made millions, served 4 month in jail and now he's anti-doping advocate. That's ridiculous, he knew what he was doing all along, why would anyone believe that he want's athletes to not use drugs instead of finding a loopholes to make them use some drugs without being detected.

[XxXFlyingArmBarXxX]

This man is responsible for the best homerun era in baseball history 😂😂😂

[joegreenberg]

Our college baseball hitting coach played in the minors and pros in the early 2000s-2010s. He would talk about the “use it or lose it” culture—confirming Conte’s take on the rampant usage among athletes, especially in the minors where the pressure is arguably more intense since many players aren’t making a living and every piece of your game is highly scrutinized. He essentially said that steroids never took a player from bad to great, but simply from 60-75% each game to 90%+ across the grueling 162-game schedule.

[workingclassrunner]

Barry Bonds must have gotten his lawyers to get Conte to sign an NDA, because I'm impressed that in 25 minutes of discussing BALCO's history he didn't mention Bonds a single time despite being BALCO's most prominent U.S. client.

[justayoutuber]

The IOC is so dirty, even if they knew they would look the other way - if paid enough.

[Manth]

Disappointing but wildly fascinating. I appreciate his transparency. I pray he is actually changed.

Feedback for the producer: I had to pause the video at the end with the text several times as it was transitioning quickly.

Excellent video overall. Keep it up.

[plusrunning]

I agree with this fully. I used to do strongman and in my last comp out of 17 people I placed 5th and the people that beat me I knew 100% used drugs because they told me. It was a cross roads for me, a realization that to continue in that sport I need to do what the masses were doing or not...

[cgeorge]

It's hilarious how so many clueless people think that just because an athlete never tested positive, that they are 'clean.' I bet most (or all) of the athletes at the elite level of sport including track and field use some form of anabolics and performance enhancers. At that Olympic level, talent can only get you so far. You need that extra edge to train harder and get faster and stronger. No matter what tests there are out there, these athletes and their support team will find some way to beat it.