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		Conte in an ABC interview admits Bonds distribution By Ken Gimblin October 22, 2008

	SAN FRANCISCO--"He wanted to get bigger, stronger, and faster" said Victor Conte former founder of the BALCO labs makers of designer steroids or undetectable steroids better known as the Clear and the Cream. The interview that is now posted on You Tube shows Conte in a 20/20 ABC interview saying that he distributed steroids to Bonds in 2000 for the purpose of Bonds to get "bigger, stronger and faster". The You Tube/ABC posting was clear and no words minced in the interview with Conte that he gave Barry Bonds steroids during the 2000 season when the Bay Area Labratories was in full swing. Conte also admitted watching Olympic track star runner Marion Jones who is in prison for perjury on steroid use inject herself right in Conte's office. Bonds is facing 14 federal perjury counts for lying about steroid use. It is not clear up to press time whether the U.S.Attorney's office will use the 20/20 interview with Conte as evidence that Conte did in fact distribute the steroid to Bonds which later in December 2003 Bonds admitted taking the Cream and the Clear but not knowing it contained steroids. Further in the raid on Bonds personal trainer Greg Anderson's home in Burlingame federal agents found calendars that were marked with Bonds name for day and dates of when Bonds was given steroids by Anderson. Kimberly Bell a Bonds former girlfriend said that Bonds was told by Anderson not to use too much of the drug but Bonds would curse him and shoot up more anyway and wanted to be the baseball season home run king and eventually baseball's home run king which he became respectively in 2001 and 2006. Jose Canseco who had admitted in his book that he and former Athletic Mark McGwire used to inject each other of the drug was most recently busted at the Mexican border trying to bring in Mexican steroids. The steroids that Canseco and McGwire were using at the time they were at the A's was not made quite clear if they came from the BALCO labs. Jones track coach Trevor Graham who blew the whistle on the BALCO scandal but lied about his role in distributing steroids to Jones and other track runners that he was coaching and didn't want to give them up was given 12 months of house arrest on Tuesday night by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston. Illston said at passing the sentence, "I don't view sending Mr.Graham to prison as a useful exercise." Graham is now banned for life from the Olympics from coaching and Travis Tygart a chief executive officer of the U.S. Doping Agency said, "Christmas came early for Trevor Graham" regarding his sentencing to only 12 months for house arrest. Graham is one of two figures in the BALCO scandal that was let off with house arrest bicycle racer Tammy Thomas was hit for a six month house arrest charge. Former 49er and Raider Dana Stubblefield is still on deck to face sentencing for perjury for steroid use later this month. Stubblefield is expected also to get less than a year either in Dublin Correctional or house arrest. But it is Bonds who faces 14 counts of perjury in the the BALCO scandal and Anderson who distributed steroids to Bonds and other Giant team mates before 2003 that may face prison sentencing if proven to have knowingly used steroids. Conte also was jailed for illegal steroid distribution with four others and admitted to giving steroids to Jones and other track runners. Asked in the ABC interview why he gave Bonds steroids while at the BALCO labs in 2000 Conte simply said Bonds wanted to get "bigger, faster and stronger". Next: Bonds will successfully beat MLB in collusion case. Ken Gimblin has covered the BALCO/steroids scandal for two years for Sportstalk Radio.