24 percent of golfers believe Tiger Woods used PEDs

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Tiger Woods emphatically denies that he has ever used performance-enhancing drugs, but almost a quarter of PGA Tour players surveyed by Sports Illustrated don’t believe him. Of 71 PGA Tour players surveyed, 24 percent said they thought Woods “used HGH or other performance-enhancing drugs.” Seventy-six percent said they believed that Woods did not take any PEDs.

Questions about Woods and PEDs arose in late 2009 when a New York Times article linked Woods to Canadian doctor Anthony Galea. The Times said Galea was under criminal investigation in the United States, and that he was suspected of providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes. At the Masters this month, Woods said that federal investigators had contacted his agent, Mark Steinberg, about the Galea probe, but had not asked to interview him. During that same media conference, Woods unequivocally denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs and said that Galea was treating his left leg after Woods’s knee surgery in 2008.

”(Galea) never gave me HGH or any PEDs. I’ve never taken that my entire life. I’ve never taken any illegal drug, ever, for that matter,” Woods said, going on to explain that Galea had given him “platelet-enriched plasma treatments,” a blood-spinning technique that Galea has used on many elite athletes to help them recover from surgery faster. “As you all know, in 2008 I blew out my ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), and part of my reconstruction with my LCL (lateral collateral ligament), it wasn’t reacting properly, it was a little bit stuck. And so I had the PRP injection into my LCL.”

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