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By Daniel M. Rosen

ISBN-10: 0313345201

ISBN-13: 9780313345203

Since the sunrise of athletic pageant in the course of the unique Olympic video games in historical Greece, athletes, in addition to their coaches and running shoes, were discovering leading edge how one can achieve an part on their festival. a few of these performance-enhancement equipment were in the authorised principles whereas different equipment skirt the grey region among being in the principles and never, whereas nonetheless different equipment holiday the tested principles. nowa days, doping - using performance-enhancing medicines - has been one procedure athletes and their running shoes have used to overcome their festival. The historical past of activities doping throughout the glossy period could be traced during the occasions and scandals of the days during which the athletes lived. From using amphetamines and different stimulants within the early twentieth century, to using testosterone and steroids by means of either the USSR and the U.S. in the course of chilly War-era Olympics video games, to blood doping and EPO, to fashion designer medicines, the historical past of doping in activities heavily follows the clinical and technological advances of our instances. within the early twenty first century, the potential for genetically engineered athletes looms. the tale of doping in activities during the last century deals clues to the place the conflict over functionality enhancement can be fought within the years to come.

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