VIDEO SHOWS: FILE FOOTAGE OF VICTOR CONTE, KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE IN THE BALCO DOPING SCANDAL SHOWS: SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT – MAY 8, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. VICTOR CONTE LOOKING AT CAMERA 2. CONTE LOOKING AROUND ROOM 3. CONTE / FRAMED AMERICAN FLAG ON THE WALL 4. CLOSE OF FLAG WITH SIGNATURES FROM SOME OF THE 2000 U.S. OLYMPIC ATHLETES CONTE WORKED WITH 5. SNAC NUTRITION FRAME ON WALL 6. FRAMED FLAG 7. FRAMED NFL JERSEYS FROM THE DENVER BRONCOS 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) VICTOR CONTE, SAYING: "We live in a performance enhanced society. Men and women get nose jobs. Women get boob jobs and butt jobs. Men take Prozac to enhance their productivity at work. Men take Viagra to enhance their performance and turn themselves from a dud into a stud under the sheets. So, I get it. These athletes are wanting to enhance their performance, but people in everyday life are routinely enhancing their performance." SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE – JUNE 25, 2004) (REUTERS – Access all) (MUTE) 9. STILL PHOTO OF CONTE ENTERING THE PHILLIP BURTON FEDERAL COURTHOUSE FOR A COURT HEARING BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE – MARCH 20, 2007) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS – Access all) 10. CONTE GETTING OUT OF HIS CAR AND ENTERING SNAC SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (FILE – SEPTEMBER 23, 2000) (REUTERS – Access all) (MUTE) 11. STILL PHOTO OF JONES WINNING THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE 100-METRES AT THE SYDNEY OLYMPICS WALNUT, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE – APRIL 16, 2000) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS – Access all) 12. AMERICAN SPRINTER, MARION JONES, LAUNCHING OUT OF THE BLOCKS IN THE WOMEN'S 400-METRES RACE 13. JONES WINNING THE RACE STORY: Victor Conte, the convicted owner of the now-defunct BALCO laboratory and seminal figure at the center of a global steroid scandal that included high-profile athletes such as baseball home run king Barry Bonds, has died at the age of 75. Conte, who spent four months in prison and four months home detention after pleading guilty in 2005 to distributing steroids to professional and Olympic athletes, died on Monday (November 3), a sports nutrition company he founded said in a social media post. The American implicated a number of high profile athletes when admitting to running doping programmes, including US sprinter Marion Jones, her husband Tim Montgomery, NFL linebacker Tim Romanowski and British sprinter Dwain Chambers. Bonds was never formally found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs in a court of law and has always denied any wrongdoing but overwhelming evidence and extensive documentation link him to the use of steroids. (Production: Joseph Andrews)
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