BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blood Doping, Mont Ventoux, Testicle
4 May 2016
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Ben johnson wins and loses gold medal twice due to use of ped. Mark mcgwire 70 home runs have been called into question but in reality has been under steroids the whole time. Barry bonds, never failed a drug test though many people believe he probably took something. Ancient olympic athletes were encouraged to take potions and herbs in order to make the events more interesting. Zulu warriors consumed a drink called dop before going into battle to get pumped. The afrikaans (dutch) use the word doop to refer to anything that got you jacked up. However, horses were doped to be slower in order to fix races. This caused the race track to lose money. So they implemented the first dope tests cycling races became notorious for doping. Athletes would use a variety of substances to enhance endurance such as. Nitroglycerine (vasodilator, causes blood pressure to lower, sucks)
