100% Injury Rate discovered that there is alot of bull going on in rodeos. Appears that steroid doping is rampant in ropin' and ridin'. The original story is from our friend Josh Peter over at Yahoo:
The steroids scandals have claimed the latest and perhaps most unlikely suspect yet. (the photo is actually a Belgian Blue with a myostatin gene mutation)
The sport of bull riding may start drug testing some of its athletes – not the riders, the bulls.
As if the four-legged beasts that weigh up to 2,200 pounds don't have enough testosterone, some bull owners allegedly are injecting the animals with anabolic steroids.
"Oh, I think damn near everybody's doing it," said Jerry Nelson, one of the sport's top bull owners. "It ain't going to slow down. It's just like baseball, football, whatever. It's not going to slow down until you legislate (against) it."
Possibly the most frightening aspect of this episode is the appearance of the bulls. Listen to this:
"When you got a 2-year-old bull or a 3-year-old bull looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger,
there is some form of steroid there," he said.
And what Schwarzenegger movie are we talking about?
Like Barry Bonds, bull owners found out about he side effects of anabolic steroids:
The practice dates back at least to the late 1990s, when Nelson said steroid use was so rampant he decided to give it a try. He said his bulls became more aggressive and muscular but also developed side effects. For some, hair color changed. Others grew sterile, jeopardizing their value as potential breeders.
Nelson said he promptly swore off steroids, but how many other trainers followed suit is a matter of debate.
However, something funny is going on according to bull people:
But suspicions of drug use heightened in 2004 when someone found empty syringes outside the pen that housed the bulls during the Professional Bull Riders World Finals in Las Vegas. The syringes could have been used to inject vitamin B-12 shots, which are approved for bulls. But Don Kish, president of American Bucking Bull Inc., took renewed concerns to the board of directors...
"It does make a bull gain weight quicker, get more muscle mass quicker and make their performance a little better, but not as much as people think it would."
He paused momentarily as he considered bigger, faster and meaner bulls tossing cowboys into the air.
"I think they need to give the riders some steroids to help them hang on," he said.
So now we have the steroid era in bull-riding. Bevo with an asterisk.
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