“BALCO” by Victor Conte & Recent Allegations of My Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs

Monday BALCO laboratory founder Victor Conte stepped into the spotlight once again with news of his tell-all book “BALCO: The Straight Dope on Barry Bonds, Marion Jones and What We Can Do To Save Sports.” What many consider to be the most shocking new development revealed with in its pages is the use of performance enhancing drugs by local and professional photographers in addition to the already publicized community of professional athletes. I would like to assure my fans that the allegations made on page 134 of the leaked version of this book that I was a customer and recipient of performance enhancing drug injections are flatly false and untrue.

“Ironically law enforcement and even the U.S. Congress is happy to pursue investigations into professional sports, but turns a blind eye to the seedy underworld of performance enhancing drug use by semi-professional and professional photographers. Local San Francisco Bay area photographers such as Jim M. Goldstein who were striving to reach peak performance to keep pace in the highly competitive online photography forum community and stock photography market regularly received injections. The sudden creative explosion of his work, increased viewer attention and numerous awards received during 2002-2004 seemed all but normal, but I can assure you without BALCO photographs such as “Delicate Arch, Arches National Park”, “Golden Gate Bridge Evening View” and “Radiant Poppy” would have never been so eye catching and well composed.”

Page 134 of “BALCO: The Straight Dope on Barry Bonds, Marion Jones and What We Can Do To Save Sports.” by Victor Conte

These recent claims of my use of BALCO’s non-detectable performance enhancing steroids influencing the creative capture of my award winning photographs “Delicate Arch, Arches National Park” (2004), “Golden Gate Bridge Evening View” (2002) and “Radiant Poppy” (2004) are absolutely false and have been a shock to friends, family and myself. During 2002-2004 I was indeed a client of a local natural medicine and acupuncture specialist who regularly provided flax seed oil rubbing balm as part of my normal treatments. During this time I did not inject myself with steroids of any sort and merely made visits for acupuncture treatments.

At the urging of my legal council this is the extent of what I can discuss about these recent allegations. I’d like to thank my fans, clients and most of all my family for their continued support.

For inquiries on how to donate to my legal fund email me via forwon@jmg-galleries.com

UPDATE: Now that April 1st has past… for the gullible this was an April Fools Day joke.

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