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The most systematic case of drug use for athletic achievement is that of the East German Olympic teams of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990, documents were discovered that showed many East German female athletes, especially swimmers, had been administered anabolic steroids and other drugs by their coaches and trainers.
Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games. Some countries have boycotted the Games on various occasions, either as a protest against the International Olympic Committee or the contemporary politics of other participants.
Yes, the list of Olympians who have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs is rather large. The first positive test for the Summer Olympics goes as far back as 1968.
Kamila Valieva was back on the Olympic ice at the Beijing Games for the individual competition Tuesday, skating hours after details of her legal defense in a doping case were revealed. Lawyers for ...
The first documented case of "blood doping" occurred at the 1980 Summer Olympics as a runner was transfused with two pints of blood before winning medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m. [6] Among particular Olympic Games, the 2008 Summer Olympics has the most stripped medals, at 50.
So are there Russian drug cheats at the Olympics? TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 30, 2021: The USA's Ryan Murphy competes in the men's 200m backstroke final during the swimming event at the 2020 Summer ...
Goldman's dilemma, or the Goldman dilemma, is a question that was posed to elite athletes by physician, osteopath and publicist Robert M. Goldman, asking whether they would take a drug that would guarantee them overwhelming success in sport, but cause them to die after five years.
More than two months later, on March 15, 2021, CHINADA privately reported the positives, but asked swimming's world governing body to "keep athletes’ information and the case strictly confidential."