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為什麼我常說美國一般社會大眾對健美的印象大多是負面的?
請各位看看下面這篇5月11日 New York Daily News(紐約每日新聞)的禁藥嫌犯相關報導.
內容也提到這次紐約職業賽的主辦人 Steve Weinberger與他前健美選手老婆 Bev Francis 等事.
我想我把這篇報導引述給各位參考.
According to www.nydailynews.com

Dial 911 for 'roids

Bust L.I. ER boss as drug supplier to top-jock gym

BY TERI THOMPSON and T.J. QUINN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Friday, May 11th 2007, 8:55 AM
The director of a Long Island emergency room surrendered to police yesterday on charges that he supplied steroids to friends - making him the latest potential casualty in the ongoing Albany steroids investigation.

Dr. Oreste Joseph Bruni, 51, director of the emergency department at New Island Hospital in Bethpage, L.I., allegedly ordered steroids for the owners of Bev's Fitness in Syosset, L.I.

The walls of the gym rat's paradise are covered with photos of the gym's famous clients.

But no one at the gym - which touts itself as a favorite workout spot for professional athletes, including NFL stars Keyshawn Johnson, Jumbo Elliott and Joe Klecko - has been named as a target of the probe.

Bruni, who refused to speak to the Daily News after he was released on his own recognizance, allegedly ordered steroids for gym co-owner Steve Weinberger, the husband of women's bobybuilding legend Bev Francis.

Bruni pleaded not guilty to felony diversion of a prescription drug in Nassau County District Court. His attorney Nancy Bartling called the charges "ridiculous"
and said she expected them to be dismissed."

Weinberger and Francis could not be reached for comment.

The ongoing probe, which originated with the Department of Health and the Albany District Attorney's office, has led to 21 indictments and seven guilty pleas related to an alleged Internet steroid scheme in which doctors wrote prescriptions for patients they had never examined.

Customers seeking steroids were able to access the Web sites of "anti-aging" centers, which would then pay the doctors to write prescriptions for the drugs, including human growth hormone and hardcore steroids.

Pharmacies all over the country that allegedly were part of the conspiracy would then fill those prescriptions.

Bruni has not been accused of participating in the scam, but according to records he ordered the steroids for Weinberger and Francis from Applied Pharmacy in Mobile, Ala., one of several pharmacies being probed. DEA agents served a search warrant on Applied last year.

The Nassau district attorney's office is prosecuting Bruni.

But the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement agents who sought charges - Mark Haskins and Rick Boettcher - are the same investigators who led raids on several Florida pharmacies and "anti-aging" clinics in February.
Professional baseball players Gary Matthews Jr., John Rocker, Jose Canseco and former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield were among the athletes who allegedly received drugs in the scam.

The investigators also seized about $200,000 in steroids and human growth hormone from a Brooklyn pharmacy Wednesday.

Photos on the Web site of Bev's Fitness show Weinberger and Francis with many famous athletes, including several who have connections to the BALCO steroid investigation.

Bodybuilding champions Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman were both BALCO clients, although neither was accused of receiving steroids from the San Francisco lab.

Another photo shows Weinberger and Francis with bodybuilder and fitness guru Milos Sarcev, who was part of the BALCO braintrust that developed a plan to make sprinter Tim Montgomery the fastest man in the world.

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(Photos courtesy of New York Daily News)
Oreste Joseph Bruni leaves Nassau County Police Headquarters in handcuffs.
(51歲醫師 Bruni 被帶上手銬離開警局)






Police raid Lowen's Pharmacy in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
(紐約警方上星期三突襲布魯克林區 Lowen's 藥局)

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這次2007紐約職業賽的參賽選手總共19位,
絕大多數真的是很強,但是下面這位歐洲塞爾維亞來的選手也能參加這個比賽??
他的名字叫做 Emro Karaduzovic,我查出他以前業餘最佳成績是世界杯元老組第十名(World Amateur Championships - IFBB, Masters HeavyWeight, 10th)!!
而且2004年他就參加職業賽了!
真不知 IFBB 的 Pro card 標準在哪裡?
##我同時在英文網站 www.getbig.com 開了個版提出質疑!!

(photos courtesy of www.musculardevelopment. com)





這是冠軍 Branch Warren

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