BPS 1101 Lecture 6: Sports
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Lost gold medal because tested positive for performance enhancing drug (stanozolol) Single season home run record broken (70 home runs) His contract expired when reached this 762 home run. No team would give him a contract because of the belief of performance enhancing drugs. At a trial, claimed to had never used performance enhancing drugs. (cid:449)as (cid:272)aught a(cid:374)d ad(cid:373)itted se(cid:448)e(cid:396)al (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s late(cid:396) se(cid:374)t to jail fo(cid:396) l(cid:455)i(cid:374)g u(cid:374)de(cid:396) oath (cid:894)pe(cid:396)ju(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:895) Ancient olympian athletes were encouraged to use potions and herbs to be the best they could be. Kept info secret in name of competition not because it was wrong. Zulu warriors consumed dop (alcohol beverage producing hallucinations) Betting on it doped the fast horses to make them sick so that the slower horses would win and you could win money. Cycling was notorious for doping to fix endurance. Caffeine, cocaine, alcohol, nitroglycerine, strychnine used for doping. Drinking water was a bad thing, forbid it.