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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte admits drug use
In the wake of a report on doping in American baseball, New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte has admitted that he used human growth hormone (HGH) twice in 2002 while he was recovering from injury.
Andy Pettitte, 35, was one of 86 Major League baseball (MLB) players named this week in the report by former Senator George Mitchell, which concluded that drug use was widespread in the sport.
However, MLB did not ban the use of HGH until the 2002 season and Andy Pettitte is reported to have said: "I accept responsibility for those two days. If what I did was an error in judgment, I apologise. I was on the disabled list, and I had heard that human growth hormone could promote faster healing for my elbow."
Andy Pettitte added: "I felt an obligation to get back to my team as soon as possible. For this reason, and only this reason, for two days I tried human growth hormone.
"Though it was not against baseball rules, I was not comfortable with what I was doing, so I stopped."
The New York Yankees team said that they were impressed with how Andy Pettitte had come forward to admit this.
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