BPS 1101 Lecture 6: 6 - Sports
16 Jun 2016
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Ben johnson wins and loses gold: stanozolol, johnson"s drug invented by john manson. Dop is a zulu drink: word dope comes from the zulu word dop . They were doping race horses (with alcohol or cocaine: make good horses bad instead of making bad horses better. Horses were doped to fix races (a lot of money on betting) Strychnine: the only one in this list that will improve sport performance. Conditions weren"t perfect temperatures above 40 c, 100% humidity, dirt roads. Not ideal for sports: short duration of action (minutes, required i. v. injection. R. h. winfield experiments with stirling aircrews to keep pilots awake. Soldiers are athletes -> we used amphetamine and methamphetamine on soldiers. First studies of athletes use of amphetamines (1959) Tom simpson in the tour de france: mont ventoux july 13 1967, 45 c, collapsed after last few meters. Amphetamines can push the body beyond it"s limits y r a t n u l o v n.
