BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blood Doping, Strychnine, Arnold Schwarzenegger

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Sports drug scandals are on the rise: only a recent thing (past 30 years, they were always around, but it was never a big deal. Ben johnson: responsible for the change of heart about steroids, canadian who won and then lost the gold medal. Suspended, but was able to participate in the olympics (was found taking steroids again and was banned: drug invented by john manson, drug was stanozolol. Mark mcgwire: hits 70 home runs in one mlb season, was under scrutiny for using steroids, admitted later that he was, but he did nothing wrong because they were otc drugs (completely acceptable in mlb) Barry bods: hits 762 home runs in his mlb (set the record, never took any performance enhancing drugs, but because of the suspicion that he did no team would sign him. Marion jones: had to surrender her gold medals, charged with purgery after lying in court over her using performance enhancing drugs.