by Harsh Kalan|Posted on Aug 20th 2012|
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These world-class athletes took shortcuts to the top, and ended up facing punishment after taking banned performance-enhancing substances
Barry Bonds
Statistically speaking, Barry Bonds is the best home run hitter in the history of baseball. However, his 762 career home runs are always accompanied by an asterisk. This is because Bonds is suspected to have used various anabolic steroids to "juice up" for most of his career, giving him the extra required to smash a baseball out of the park time and again!
Bonds maintained his innocence throughout, but the evidence against him mounted with every witness who dared to speak up against the rampant usage of steroids in baseball. Bonds is just one of the 100-plus baseball players named in the infamous BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative) scandal. However, he is the most prominent one!