Yankees' Giambi admits taking steroids: report

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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Major League Baseball star slugger Jason Giambi reportedly told a federal grand jury that he took steroids and other performance-enhancing substances.

The New York Yankees star said he began using steroids in 2001, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report, which cites a transcript of the baseball star's testimony in the BALCO steroids case that has led to charges against four men.

Such testimony is typically sealed but leaks to area newspapers have been common throughout the case, coming so frequently that a probe into them was ordered by the court presiding over the steroid distribution trial.

Giambi, 33, has denied using performance enhancing drugs but, according to the newspaper, testified on December 11, 2003,...