Drugs In Sports
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Drug use has been a part of competitive sport for almost a century. At the
first olympics in Athens in 1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of
brandy and strychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to
control pain during a race. Use of alcohol was very common in the early
years of the ....
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.... moral and medical grounds.
The Olympic games, even though they are only held every 4 years, represent
the pinnacle of sporting achievement. The International Olympic Committee
(IOC) has a critical role to play in demanding extensive drug testing and
in providing funding for such testing.
This is a controversial issue. The IOC believes that each of the
international federations which governs particular sports should be
responsible for its own testing.
This seems reasonable enough, bu ....
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