Drugs in Sport: The Changing Face

Date Submitted: 10/16/2001 18:00:34
Category: / Recreation & Sports
Length: 4 pages (1081 words)
When Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for using the banned anabolic steroid stanzolol after he won gold in the 100m at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, the world of sport was sent reeling from the blow to its image. For some it was an introduction to the uglier side of the Olympic Games. This was drugs in port at its worst. No one knows what enticed Johnson to take the body-effecting substance which stunned the …
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