Word: steroidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gender front, a female swimming commentator's voice filled with horror as she hinted at steroid use by the Chinese team--sounding less concerned by the possible violation of the rules than by the specter of "women with deep voices! masculine women!" Quick, somebody call Steven King...
...other Olympic sport has the competitive picture been so transformed. East Germany doesn't exist anymore; neither does the steroid program that artificially enhanced its athletes. Meanwhile, so much American talent has ripened that Evans didn't qualify for this year's team in the 400-m individual medley, an event in which she won gold four years ago. Overall, U.S. women stand a good chance of winning a record-tying 11 of 15 events, and eight team members rank as at least co-favorites in one or more individual races. For the first time in decades, the U.S. women...
...dedicated to training and resent new NCAA rules restricting collegiate athletes to 20 hours of practice a week. Thompson is so fitness conscious that she "relaxes" from swimming with an aerobics workout. Nicole Haislett idolizes Arnold Schwarzenegger and often poses flexing her considerable biceps. There are even rumors of steroid use among U.S. women. One, Angel Martino, was banned for 16 months after testing positive for nandrolone at the 1988 U.S. team trials. Now she is back in the 50-m freestyle and maybe a relay...
...swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images of his stomach, small intestine and colon ($75); antibiotics and Tagamet for the ulcer ($25); plus five days of hospitalization...
With induction of the steroid glucocorticoid into the mother and surfactant replacement therapy, many stillborns are now avoided, she says...