U.S. says Bonds failed steroid test before record

Baseball home run king Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids in November 2000, months before his record breaking 73-home run season, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.

The allegation came in a legal filing in his steroid perjury case which referred to Bonds’ long-time trainer, Greg Anderson.

“At trial, the government’s evidence will show that Bonds received steroids from Anderson in the period before the November 2000 positive drug test, and that evidence raises the inference that Anderson gave Bonds the steroids that caused him to test positive in November 2000,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello wrote.

The filing twice referred to a failed drug test in 2001 as well as a failed test in 2000, but prosecutors later said there was a failed test only in 2000. “It’s a typo. We’ll file a corrected copy tomorrow,” said Josh Eaton, a spokesman for Russoniello. “Nothing nefarious is going on here.”

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