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Olympic officials are vowing to catch steroid users...
...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...
...Anabolic steroids are essentially the male hormone testosterone and its syn thetic derivatives. They were developed to alleviate strictly medical problems: correcting delayed puberty and preventing the withering of muscle tissue in people undergoing prolonged recovery from surgery, starvation or other traumas. Curiously, U.S. athletes were indirectly introduced to the drugs by Soviet athletes. In 1956 the late Dr. John Ziegler attended a world weight-lifting championship in Vienna and was told that the drugs were greatly improving the performance of the lifters from the Soviet Union. Ziegler, believing that U.S. athletes could also helped by the drugs, worked with...
When the hypothalamus finds the testosterone levels too high, as it does in the case of steroid abusers, it signals the pituitary to stop production. Problems can also arise in some cases after athletes stop taking the drugs and the hypothalamus fails to get the system started again...
...drugs, they competed and risked the official test. Oddly enough, Michels passed the first, confidential screening, reportedly because it was not as complete as the urinalysis conducted later. Michels reportedly told fellow athletes that the technicians awed him by naming the date in April when he had last used steroids and by saying they could also pinpoint the exact dosage. The twelve athletes who fled before facing the test insist that they are not steroid users, but some said that they were worried about urinalysis turning up other, more innocuous substances like caffeine, which are also...