Warlocks point is true. I think the average person just assumes steroids are part of bodybuilding. I would guess that is one reason sponsorship has dried up and the 20% rule came along. That does not affect the girls who do sessions or sell things on the web by being massive. They don't have an issue with sponsors. Their sponsors are their clients and most of those people want them huge. They just have to be careful to not get caught using PEDS. In the mainsteam sports...they are looking and they are testing. Even blood now. There is zero testing in sessions or for having a website.
The fed angle is mainly towards dealers like any other sweeps on arrests. The Feds want the bookie. They don't want to arrest the guy making the bets. The Feds want the guy who's making lots of money selling pot or coke. They are not after the person who is using or buying a quarter ounce or dime bag of weed. That is misdemanor that cops step into. The other is a felony....dealing and you are looking at jail. The same is true with roids. The danger is in that some bodybuilders or people very close to them are dealing the roids b/c it is an expensive habit. Sherry Smith was arrested with a moderate amount of roids....not dealing level, but more than a light user.She was lucky her firefighting unit had a very strong union or she was out of work. Colette Nelson's hubby had a houseful of PEDs and just pleaded to jail and is now out. She was not arrested or even home when they swarmed. She moved in with him after he was a dealer. Draw your own conclusions at to why.
I think the sport will keep being steroids and it will basically go even more to the cult side. I'm not as close to it now as I was a few years back, but I would imagine even the physique girls are using some decent amount of PEDs. The IFBB just wants to make the few fans left think they are cleaning it up a little is my perception. The Feds could care less about bodybuilding. The sports they are after and the war on roids is only tied to bodybuilding b/c many bodybuilders have been busted as top dealers....a big one in the Texas case with Clemens and Pettitte. They were using a top 5 Mr Olympia to buy drugs. That is how he got famous.....in that arrest. He was a huge dealer....millions of dollars of PEDS in his home.
They are after football, baseball, and mainstream sport use. MMA is getting big. What if someone hurts someone bad on roids? They are checking sports like that....where the competitive advantage gained results in stolen money by players who over achieve or perhaps in football....an injury. We've also seen the teen suicideswith football players and their parents go to congress and blame roids. The kid changes on roids they say. I would agree, though I never saw anyone go to shoot hemelves due to roids. Who knows in young bodies and the results you see are so fast that it causes more than a physical addiction. You look in the mirror and say holy crap. I remember not taking roids and saying that when I lifted and saw other guys my size that were 6-4 235 and mostly muscle go to 265 fast. That can not happen without roids. I took awhile to get to 240 from 235. I was more speed and instinct than size tho....my size was not big for football. If I had known that roids also made you faster.....who knows...I may have jumped in myself. I was not aware of that. I learned soon after and thought the speed was really just the roids working to make you more agressive. Roids nowadays are much better than they used to be and harder to detect, but you still need hormones. You need testosterone and too much of that changes men and women permanently.....plus it stops any natural production of T. Dangerous if your body stops making it at age 30...for men. That is why many baseball players were nailed not by roids, but by taking the banned fertility drug that men take when testosterone was needed for them to have any sexual desire left.
Biggest influencer of the whole US roid movement? Jose canseco by a mile. His book was a game changer. Turned out almost every person he named was caught. Even Raffy Palmeiro who wagged his finger at congress and said how dare anyone accuse him of cheating. He was caught and his career ended about 5 games later after he tried to play with earplugs at home. He lost all his ensdorsements. He was the first ever face of Viagra sales ironically. He needed it.
Yes, it will stay in bodybuilding and fbbing and to a lesser extent sessions would die without it. Sad, but true. I've studied and been around PEDs my whole life as an adult. I don't mean at fbb shows or with fbbs though I've seen plenty of those girls. Some look ok still and sound ok....others.....kind of disturbing. They don't even seem like women. Even the ones who looked good to me often told me or admitted their use to others. Colette told the whole world after she told us that knew her a little. She went on the Gumbel show and boy did he make FBBs look like freaks. Even Colette said they are "addicts" to their bodies. She talked about the need to look in the mirror and see more.