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Monday January 12, 10:24 AM
McEnroe admits steroid use
LONDON (AFP) - Former Wimbledon and US Open champion John McEnroe has admitted unwittingly taking steroids for six years.
The 44-year-old who also won four US Open titles between 1979 and 1984 was reacting to Greg Rusedski's admission that he had tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone.
"For six years I was unaware I was being given a form of steroid of the legal kind they used to give horses until they decided it was too strong even for horses," McEnroe told Monday's edition of the Daily Mail.
He did not specify if it was the ATP Tour medical staff who administered the drugs.
Rusedksi has claimed that he should not have been charged because in the last 16 months 46 other players on the ATP Tour have been found to have had elevated nandrolone levels.
Last year the ATP dropped charges against seven of them after it was discovered the higher levels may have been caused by ATP trainers providing the players with the supplements in the form of tablets and drinks.
The other 39 were not charged because their nandrolone levels, while higher than usual, were below the legal limit.
Rusedski is to face an ATP tribunal at Montreal on Feb 9.
"I'm not sure some of the strong, anti-inflammatory drugs are that far removed from illegal ones," McEnroe added.
"People have to become more aware of what they are putting into their bodies.
"In general people are administered drugs too readily."
McEnroe, who won 77 Tour titles, said last year in his biography "You Cannot Be Serious" that he took recreational drugs but he never admitted taking steroids.
His former wife Tatum O'Neal claimed last year that he took steroids when he returned to the tour in 1988.
"I made him stop because he was becoming violent," O'Neal said.
"(McEnroe) would take out all his rage onto me" when his career wasn't going well, she said, because he blamed her as the cause "of his losing, yes, myself and the children."
The tennis star, who won all his Grand Slam titles between 1979 and 1984, had a resurgence late in his career and reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 1989 and 1992.
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