Steroids saga goes on and on

Early 1960s: Gettysburg College graduate John Ziegler administers Dianabol — the first mass-produced anabolic steroid — to Olympic weightlifters here in York.

“I wish to God I’d never done it. I’d like to go back and take that whole chapter out of my life,� Ziegler says, decades later.

Aug. 4, 2006: In San Francisco, chemist Patrick Arnold, who created “the clear,� a previously undetectable steroid, is sentenced to three months in prison for his role in the BALCO drug scandal.

“I’m very regretful for what I’ve done and especially since what it has precipitated in sports and society,� Arnold says.

And the beat goes on...