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...Olympics, she came in ninth. In the 1986 European Championships, she came in fourth. In 1987, at the age of 26, West German heptathlete Birgit Dressel was dead, the victim of her body's reaction to the profusion of drugs she took in order to be a great competitor...
...story is a singularly horrible one, but the behavior that cost Dressel her life is by no means unique. Dressel died in a Mainz hospital, after three days of agonizing pain, because of a rare massive allergic reaction to the combination of drugs she took -- as many as 20 different kinds. She consumed them compulsively, seeking help from at least three different doctors to keep the medicine chest stocked, believing that they would all help her win. She believed as well that the drugs were nothing to worry about. When her mother questioned her about them, Dressel replied, "These...
...compulsion Dressel felt to dope is widespread and growing. So says Bruce Wilhelm, a weight lifter who competed in the 1976 Olympics and admits that he used steroids during his competitive days. "Sure I did. There's nobody in the world who hasn't. The difference today," says Wilhelm, now a member of the U.S.O.C. subcommittee on substance and drug abuse, "is that the dosages have increased ten- to 100-fold. It's crazy...
...beginning of this year, things looked very promising for the Harvard men's lacrosse team All-American Brendan Meagher was back after spending last year on the sidelines with a knee injury and high school sensation Dell Dressel had arrived here as a freshman. The squad even looked as though it might repeat its 1980 season, when it shared the Ivy title with Cornell and made it to the Nationals...
...today when the laxmen head to the home of the Baltimore Lacrosse Hall of Fame to face top-ranked Johns Hopkins, they are once again without Meagher, who reinjured his knee, and Dressel will be on the sidelines cheering for Hopkins where he transferred this winter...