HIS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Analgesic, Growth Hormone
11 Apr 2017
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Lance armstrong; famous athlete known for taking performance enhancing drugs. Ben johnson; 1988 olympics, also caught for taking performance enhancing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs were originally called dope . 1910; drug test on horses (horse racing) Performance enhancing were banned in the 1920"s, but it was still being testing for. Steroids were invented in the 1940"s; mixed a lot of chemicals together. People figured out that they couldn"t win without steroids. Steroids were considered to be natural by some people. The side-effects for steroids weren"t worth it . Athletes were known to use steroids in the 1960"s. Reliable testing became available in the 70"s. Athletes who passed their drug tests were able to compete in olympics. People would fake their test by using other people"s urine. Blood doping; take out red blood cells, store it, put it back in the body before the game. Very dangerous method but hard to test for. Scandals kept happening in sports with drugs.
