Was Tiger Woods Canadian doctor linked to illegal performance enhancing drugs?”
A Canadian doctor, who helped treat Tiger Woods during his eighth-month rehab from surgery, is the subject of US and Canadian probes for selling unapproved drugs. Anthony Galea is suspected of providing prominent American and Canadian athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, The New York Times reports. The 50-year-old Galea was arrested in Toronto on October 15 by Canadian police just a month after he was stopped on another occasion at the US-Canada border with human growth hormone and Actovegin in his suitcase. Besides Woods, Galea has treated hundreds of professional and amateur athletes over the years including Olympic swimmer Dara Torres, Olympic runner Donovan Bailey and NFL quarterback Chris Simms. He is also the former team doctor for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, the Times said. It is illegal to import or sell Actovegin in the United States. Actovegin is a drug extracted from calf’s blood. The newspaper says the FBI investigation of Galea is based on
A Canadian doctor, who helped treat Tiger Woods during his eighth-month rehab from surgery, is the subject of US and Canadian probes for selling unapproved drugs, The New York Times reported. Canadian sports doctor linked to doping probe Canadian sports doctor linked to doping probe A Canadian doctor, who helped treat Tiger Woods during his eighth-month rehab from surgery, is the subject of US and Canadian probes for selling unapproved drugs, The New York Times reported. Anthony Galea is suspected of providing prominent American and Canadian athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to the Times. The 50-year-old Galea was arrested in Toronto on October 15 by Canadian police just a month after he was stopped on another occasion at the US-Canada border with human growth hormone and Actovegin in his suitcase. Besides Woods, Galea has treated hundreds of professional and amateur athletes over the years including Olympic swimmer Dara Torres, Olympic runner Donovan Bailey and NFL
As if Tiger Woods needed any more bad publicity, his Canadian doctor is now under criminal investigation for drug violations in both Canada and the U.S. Dr. Tony Galea was arrested in October, and his Toronto clinic was raided by Canadian authorities after he was detained at the U.S. border and found to be in possession of illegal drugs, including human growth hormone (hGH) and Actovegin, a drug extracted from calf’s blood that is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. According to a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, charges against Galea are expected to be filed on Friday in Toronto. According to the Toronto Star, Galea is also now being investigated in the U.S. by the FBI, where he is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. Importing Actovegin, which was found in his medical bag at the border in late September, is illegal in the U.S.
