BALCO: Gold Medals and Bad Blood | 2
American Scandal
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🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Track star Marion Jones gets caught in the middle of an Olympic steroid scandal and turns to Victor Conte for help. In baseball, Barry Bonds is fed up watching other players beat records and garner fame. He teams up with a trainer who sets him on a path that will have unexpected results.
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| 0:19.5 | It's 10.30 pm on a cool Monday night in May of 2003. |
| 0:25.0 | Carpools up behind a strip mall a few miles from the San Francisco airport. |
| 0:29.9 | Man and sweatpants and a hoodie roots through a dumpster. |
| 0:33.3 | One thing that makes the job easier, he's so tall he doesn't have to climb inside. |
| 0:38.1 | All that trash is within his reach. |
| 0:40.6 | He tries to work quietly but the bulging trash bags are awkward to handle. |
| 0:44.3 | Dog, god damn it! |
| 0:46.0 | The man going through the dumpster isn't homeless. |
| 0:48.2 | He lives two miles away but he does this every Monday night. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to the exciting world of being an agent with the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit. |
| 0:57.4 | Tonight's assignment, dumpster diving. |
| 1:00.6 | For special agent Jeff Navitsky, this has been his Monday night routine for over a year. |
| 1:05.9 | Drive to the parking lot of the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, otherwise known as Balco. |
| 1:11.2 | Snatch the trash bags out of the dumpster. |
| 1:13.2 | Drive to the empty parking lot of a nearby office park and sort through it all. |
| 1:17.9 | He knows that Balco's owner, Victor Conti, has been dealing performance in handsome drugs. |
| 1:22.5 | So of a lot of people. |
| 1:23.9 | But he's not interested in bringing down some small time dealer. |
| 1:27.4 | If he can bring down Conti, he'll also bring down some of the biggest names in sports. |
| 1:33.3 | When he needs hard evidence. |
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