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Drugs in Sports
Drug use has been a part of competitive sport for almost a century. At the
first olympics in Athens in 1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of
brandy and strychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to
control pain during a race. Use of alcohol was very common in the early
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.... most prestigious. The
world stops to watch them and they represent the culmination of years of
work for athletes. Winning a gold medal is the glory to any sporting career.
Urine testing is the usual testing method, and it doesn't reveal the full
range of drugs taken to enhance performance. Blood testing is a more
efficient way, it can detect drugs that urine testing cannot.
By the beginning of the 1980s, the use of anabolic steroids had become
quite common. These drugs - and the allied substances, testosterone and
human growth hormone - were basic muscle builders. They increased mass and
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