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Sudduth's training began to pay off noticeably when he burst into the international rowing scene in 1981 when he unexpectedly captured a silver medal in the World Championships in Germany...
...second analysis will then be carried out in the presence of observers from the I.O.C. and the athlete's team. If this is also positive, the athlete will be stripped of his medal. "If someone is using the banned drugs," says Catlin, "we'll find...
...more than 300 drugs that athletes are forbidden to use. And, in what is the toughest action to date against drug users by any athletic body, the Interna tional Olympic Committee has instituted a testing system that seems almost certain to catch anyone who aims at getting a medal with the aid of a pill or a needle. Among the targets of the tests: amphetamines and, possibly the most dangerous drugs ever tak en by athletes, anabolic steroids...
...have detectable levels of steroids. One of them, American Jeff Michels, 22, subsequently appealed the decision and will be al lowed to take part in the Olympic Games. Under the I.O.C.'s new testing system, a representative of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee will contact all three medal winners, as well as a fourth competitor selected at ran dom, immediately after each event is completed. The escort will take the athletes to a doping control station, where two samples of urine will be taken from each person: one will be stored under strict security and the other will...
Being a steroid user may cost an athlete far more than his or her Olympic medal: a growing body of medical evidence indicates that athletes who take steroids have experienced problems ranging from sterility to loss of libido, and the drug has been implicated in the deaths of young athletes from liver cancer and a type of kidney tumor. Steroid use has also been linked to heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center...