Word: steroidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about them, Dressel replied, "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." No single drug she took was blamed for her death, but it is worth noting that one of the drugs she reportedly received was Stromba -- a trade name for stanozolol, the steroid that was found in Ben Johnson's urine test...
After Canadian officials were notified that he had tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol, a substance that is supposed to help build lean muscle mass, they hustled the Jamaican-born sprinter out of Olympic Village, the cockpit of his glory, and checked him into a Seoul hotel under an ignominious pseudonym. There, at 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Carol Anne Letheren, chef de mission of the Canadian delegation, stripped Johnson of the medal he had already given to his mother. "He was in a state of shock," said Letheren. "He still did not comprehend the situation." A few hours...
...banning Johnson from ever representing Canada on a national team again, calling the incident a "national embarrassment." Many saw the sprinter as pitiable, and some, like I.O.C. vice president Richard Pound, believed he had been duped as well as doped, saying, "Johnson probably wouldn't know what a steroid is." But across Canada spread a sense of bewilderment and anger...
Verdier said traces of stanozolol, a water-based steroid, were found in a urine sample taken after Saturday's race...
...after the trials, news turned sour. The team's freshest ) and most promising woman sprinter, a square-rigged stormer named Angel Myers, from Americus, Ga., who had qualified in ba timlibthree events, was banished for a drug violation. She claimed that tests misread a birth-control drug as a steroid. But she was out, replaced by Butterflyer Janel Jorgensen and Freestyler Jill Sterkel (who thus made her fourth Olympic team...