Pitcher Clemens says doping allegations untrue

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Seven-time Cy Young award-winner Roger Clemens Sunday reiterated his vehement denial of doping allegations against him, in a video posted on his website.

"Let me be clear: The answer is no, I did not use steroids, human growth hormone, and I've never done so," Clemens said in the video.

Clemens was responding to the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball, in which he was the most prominent among dozens of players alleged to have used performance enhancing drugs.

Former Senator Majority Leader George Mitchell, tabbed by Major League Baseball to conduct the inquiry under pressure from US lawmakers to clean up the game, wrote in his report that Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, said he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while with the...