Emphasizing the controversy over performance-enhancing drugs in sports today, this book examines all aspects of steroid use on the human body across history, from ancient China and India to modern-day professional athletics. The use of performance-enhancing drug use in sports is never out of the...
Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever ...
“WADA”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503: President and CEO:Yoshihiko Hatanaka, “Astellas”) today announced a global agreement to partner on the prevention of misuse and abuse of medicines for doping in sports. Doping in sports...
Today how ever in the twenty first century this statement can become a lie. Greatness no longer requires the same amount of dedication as it did fifty years ago. Everyday greatness is given in the forms of needles and small pills. The doping situation in professional and amateur sports ...
The subject of doping in sports is both new and old, especially in weight sports. It is almost as old in the field events and North American-style football. Banned medications were once considered irrelevant in many other sports, but as we know, that is not the case today. Even the...
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I would like to be able to put more of my trust in the organizations that are supposed to be protecting us,” he says, citing WADA and the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), the world governing body for aquatic sports. “I’ve never understood how someone can fai...
Butthe use of what would today be regarded as prohibited drugs seems to have been “absolutely normal” to the ancients, with “those who offered such substances being considered medical specialists in sports.” Remarkably, we need to zip forward another 1,600 or so years to find the next ...
Today we would recognize these organs as a source of testosterone, a banned substance according to the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA. The use of medically inappropriate substances for the treatment of illnesses and injuries solely to enable participation in competition is also regarded as ...
Katie Ledecky won her first Olympic gold at age 15, and today has more individual Olympic gold medals than any woman swimmer in history. As she gears up for the Paris Olympics this summer, Ledecky talks with correspondent Elaine Quijano about reexamining