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Essay Archive - Drugs in Sports
Drugs in Sports
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 twentieth century. It might be argued that the first athletes
to use drugs to enhance their performance were, in fact, cheating. We need
to remember that drug use is not new. East Germany athletes used drugs to
enhance their performance. Soviet Union was also involved in drug
experimentation. In the United States ....
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