NEW YORK - EVEN as the Tiger Woods' sex scandal continues to generate salacious headlines with the naming of two more mistresses, the world's No.1 golfer has been linked with a Canadian doctor suspected of providing prominent athletes with performance-enhancing drugs.

Anthony Galea, 50, was arrested in Toronto on Oct 15, a month after he was stopped at the US-Canada border with human growth hormone and Actovegin, an illegal drug made from calf's blood, reported the New York Times.

Woods saw Galea, who has developed a reputation among elite sportsmen for accelerating recovery by using platelet-rich plasma therapy, four times at his home in Florida in February and March after concerns about the speed of his recovery from knee surgery in June last year.

When contacted by NYT, Woods' agent Mark Steinberg wrote in an e-mail: 'I would really ask that you guys don't write this? If Tiger is not implicated, and won't be, let's please give the kid a break.'

But breaks are in short supply for the golfer, who turns 34 on Dec 30. On Monday, the New York Post alleged that he had an affair five years ago with nightclub waitress Julie Postle, 25. Postle's former boyfriend Brian Kimbrough revealed: 'Tiger told her his marriage was for publicity and wasn't real.'

Hours later, a possible 14th lover was identified as Theresa Rogers, 40, who allegedly had a five-year affair with Woods beginning a year before his marriage to Elin Nordegren in 2004 and continuing into this year.

Source: straitstimes.com

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