维克多孔蒂是活得好好的,他显示了a new film about a sports doping scandal he was central to, just as slippery and manipulative as ever.

Conte, you might remember, ran the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Ooperative, also known as BALCO, which claimed to be a service business for blood and urine analysis and food supplements for elite athletes.

In 2003, the Chroniclewas front and centerin reporting that BALCO, based in Burlingame, was in fact providing performance-enhancing drugs to those elite athletes. Its chief client:San Francisco Giantsslugger巴里邦兹.

Conte eventually served four months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering. Bonds, who would later break Hank Aaron’s all-time major league home run record, has never admitted to taking steroids and never flunked a drug test.

So what does Conte say in “Hall of Shame,” the 78-minute Netflix documentary?

“I did not give Barry Bonds any steroids,” he says. “… You want me to guess if Ithink巴里邦兹took steroids? I think it’s likely.”

That’s pretty rich, considering all the evidence that says Conte definitely knew.

”大厅的沙me,” the third of four documentaries in season three of Netflix’s “Untold” series focusing on controversial sports issues, is an astonishingly pro-Conte film. Jeff Novitzky, the federal government’s lead investigator into the BALCO affair who clearly thinks Conte is an untrustworthy character, has a big voice in Bryan Storkel’s film, as does New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt.

But Conte, now 73, is front and center in the film. He drives the narrative and provides access; even his daughter, Veronica Schumacher, pops up every now and then to say what a great guy her dad is.

Conte admits to providing some athletes — including disgraced Olympic athletes Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery (who is in the film) — with steroids. He doesn’t think it was wrong; he says he believes80% of all elite athletesare on some type of illegal performance-enhancing substance, and that his mindset at the time was, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

Fair enough. But there are moral issues here that Storkel never addresses.

At the risk of venturing into sour grapes territory, there is a huge omission in “Hall of Shame”: the role that former Chronicle reportersMark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williamsplayed in exposing the BALCO scandal. They were the first to report many of the headline-making revelations, and at one point werethreatened with imprisonmentby a judge for refusing to reveal unidentified sources for their reporting. A government subpoena of the reporterswas eventually dropped,and they never served time.

Their 2006 book,“Game of Shadows,”appears to be an unacknowledged influence on Storkel’s film, yet neither reporter is given a voice in the film, or even mentioned. No offense to Schmidt, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, but he was in college and not writing the story when the BALCO scandal broke.

The only Bay Area reporter in this Bay Area story is former NBC reporter Cheryl Hurd, who was tipped off to federal agents’ raid on BALCO headquarters.

Otherwise, the Bay Area is represented only by Conte himself. He still runs Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning in San Carlos, a parallel company to the now-defunct BALCO.

The company’s websiteprominently lists Bonds, Jones, Montgomery and other known or suspected steroid cheats as “SNAC athletes.” On the same webpage, Conte claims he is “now one of the world’s most outspoken anti-doping advocates.”

Reach G. Allen Johnson:ajohnson@sfchronicle.com