Sly's Rocky Road To HGH Bust
Sylvester Stallone has been charged
with trying to bring pled guilty to bringing 48 vials of recombinant Human Growth Hormone into
Australia. But he denies having had anything to do with the four vials of testosterone that appear to have been thrown from his hotel room balcony minutes before a visit from Australian Customs...
What, you thought he got his 60 year-old body into this kind of shape for "Rocky Balboa" just by eating his Wheaties for breakfast?
Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Following the bust, he joins Anna Nicole-Smith as an outed Hollywood HGH (ab)user. Schwarzenegger only admitted to steroids.
By all accounts, the HGH Sly was smuggling was Jintropin,
the market leader in China. 48 vials of it indeed, with no import
license and without even a valid prescription. It’s surprising,
perhaps, that he didn’t have a scrip: in Los Angeles 60
dollars will quickly and easily get you a note for marijuana to help
with a bad back or a prescription for Viagra to help with stage fright.
The sheer quantity of HGH Sly was apparently carrying is bound to turn some heads in the sports medicine world. 48 vials is enough to build a roomful of bodies. Was he taking it to Thailand to beef up the extras on the set of Rambo IV, now shooting? The most likely answer: Jintropin is available over the internets, direct from the manufacturer, in 50 vial kits. With the Beijing 2008 Olympics just around the corner, what on Earth is the Chinese government doing, allowing Jintropin HGH directly onto the grey and black markets?
The Australian authorities are to be commended for their vigilance: the bust brings back memories of Willy Voets and Alexander Vinokourov's wife (in cycling, being busted by customs with bags full of drugs is relatively commonplace). The media reports the maximum fine Stallone will face is only 22,000 Aussie dollars.
Seeing HGH being caught yet again at a port of entry is also a stark reminder of the difficulties sports medicine has had in devising an effective test. WADA and the IOC claimed to have a test prior to the Athens Olympics. But not a single analytical positive has come back. Are we really to believe movie stars are the only ones to have been using HGH to boost performance? After Feds here in the USA raided the home of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Jason Grimsley, finding HGH, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig downplayed the issue:
"I've asked that question [about the extent of HGH use] to a lot of [team] doctors and trainers," Selig said, during a question-and-answer session with members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. "The most I've gotten out of anybody is, 'If more than one or two people on our team is doing it, we'd be shocked.'"
Only one or two per team? Oh, so no real problem there, then.
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