NAAAAAAH, nothin' funny goin' on here.
Posted on 03/27/2008 7:50:40 AM PDT by SmithL
Former cycling champion Tammy Thomas seemed to be in the midst of shaving her face when an Olympic drug tester paid her an unannounced visit in 2002, according to testimony Wednesday in her trial on perjury charges.
Tom McVay, a tester for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told a jury in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that on March 14, 2002, he was assigned to locate Thomas at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, east of San Diego, and collect a urine sample for a steroid test.
The visit was memorable, McVay said, because of Thomas' appearance when she answered his knock on her apartment door.
"It appeared to be like shaving cream on the left side of her face around her ear," he said.
Thomas is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when she told the grand jury that investigated the BALCO steroids scandal that she had never used banned drugs.
Her lawyer, Ethan Balogh, has argued that her testimony was technically true in part because the designer steroids she obtained weren't illegal at the time.
Prosecutors have called Thomas a "hard-core" steroid user who underwent a physical transformation while using banned drugs. On Monday, a Colorado endocrinologist who examined Thomas in 2000 said the cyclist's use of the steroid depo-testosterone had caused "severe virilization."
Thomas had a deep voice, full beard, chest hair and even signs of male pattern baldness, Dr. Margaret Weirman testified.
In court Wednesday, McVay said he barely recognized Thomas as the woman whose drug test he had supervised six years ago. Today, she is a slender woman with long black hair.
The woman he remembered was "a lot larger, about 50 pounds heavier," McVay testified.
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Is he sure it wasn’t her husband that answered the door?
NAAAAAAH, nothin' funny goin' on here.
Guilty. No pictures necessary.
Damn. Too late!!
It was hair gel, you know, like in “Something About Mary:...
Have they checked her for Y chromosomes? Or go athletes get to “choose their gender” these days?
Sounds like the East German womens olympic team.
Dear God, it’s Floyd Landis with a pageboy haircut.
}:-)4
Is winning really THAT important?
We're all equal, who cares if a "man" is pregnant.
Can't wait until the city turns into salt.
Dude - that’s a dude!
No verdict your honor, the defendant is in the wrong courtroom. The courtroom for men is down the hall to the left.
Would be interested in seeing a current picture.
Thomas, who was banned for life from cycling and now studies law, leaves court in San Francisco last year with attorney Tony TamburelloAre you series? Is that a pretty guy and an ugly chick?
Is this photoshopped?
Ping to 17. I think she looks like Michael Jackson.
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