THE SIDELINES : Panel Told of Key Steroid Supplier

Two more witnesses at the Canadian inquiry into drug use in amateur sport said today that a Toronto doctor was the key steroid supplier for local university athletes.

Richard Lococo and Andy Marshall, former football players for York University, said they made separate visits to Dr. Ara Artinian’s office looking for something to give them new strength and added weight. They said they paid the doctor cash and walked out with bottles full of steroids.

“He’d ask me what I wanted, I told him, I paid him and left,” Lococo testified. He said the doctor gave him the drugs without even checking his pulse.

Other testimony suggested that each time the athletes visited Artinian, a fictitious ailment would be entered on their charts.