Victor Conte founded the Balco laboratory in California in 1984, a company that would become synonymous with doping. The laboratory manufactured the anabolic steroid THG, which was designed to evade detection in doping controls.
When the drug was discovered and the scandal became a fact, it meant the end for several big names in sports, including baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and track and field star Marion Jones, who was stripped of all of her Olympic medals.
Conte later tried to portray himself as an anti-doping advocate who had willingly provided information to the anti-doping organization Wada.
