Wayne Odesnik and the HGH Fiasco

The Odesnik bust highlights deeper problems with drug testing.

The Wayne Odesnik humane growth hormone fiasco shows tennis isn’t policing its own – and furthermore when we look at the issues around testing for HGH, probably can’t in the immediate future.

After Odesnik was busted for bringing eight vials of HGH into Australia, according to customs officials, he first claimed he had a doctor’s prescription to take it. Then he changed his story and claimed he bought it on the internet.

Later he changed his story again and denied he had ever taken it–despite that fact that he pled guilty to its transport. Commented Australian Magistrate Graham Lee: “I found Mr. Odesnik’s explanation for his possession of the vials to be unsatisfactory to say the least.”

In his defiance, Wayne was, bizarrely, following in the footsteps of the actor Sylvester Stallone (aka “Rocky”) who himself was busted in Australia for 48 vials of HGH and had this to say: “Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed. Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of…