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Barry Bonds doesn’t seem concerned about ongoing steroid rumors or the BALCO trial. He continues to train with long-time friend Greg Anderson, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Anderson, who is awaiting trial in the BALCO steroids case on charges of distributing performance-enhancing drugs, is helping Bonds rehab his surgically repaired right knee. Bonds’ lawyer, Michael Rains, has said this isn’t a smart move, the paper reported.

“In the conservative world of legal advice, I have told Barry that it was probably better that he not have contact with Greg,” Rains told the paper Friday in a telephone interview. “But I’ve had enough discussions with Barry to know what friendship means to him. He values his friendship with Greg and always has, as well as the training regimen Greg has given him.”

Bonds returned from the Giants’ Arizona spring training site two weeks ago to begin his rehab with a Giants trainer. But shortly after that, the paper reported, Bonds also resumed regular, early morning weight-training sessions with Anderson at a health club in Burlingame near the offices of BALCO. A Chronicle photographer witnessed Bonds entering the gym, called Bay Area Fitness, shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, the day before the Giants’ season opener.

Asked about the workouts, Anderson’s lawyer Anna Ling said, “We don’t comment on Greg Anderson’s clients, past or present. He is a very private person.” The Giants didn’t respond to a telephone request for comment.

Anderson and three other men associated with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative were indicted on charges that include illegally distributing steroids, possession of human growth hormone, money laundering and misbranding drugs with intent to defraud. They have pleaded not guilty. A trial is set for Sept. 6.

Since the BALCO scandal broke, Bonds has denied using steroids and has defended Anderson, calling him a “wonderful person, a very, very giving person” and saying, “To me, a man is innocent until proven guilty.”

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