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...interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches. One, voice thick with contempt, told me I was "pathetic" for investigating steroid use by athletes under his care, that all steroids do is "make you more of a man," and that it's the "responsibility" of some athletes to use them...
...once had the same best time of 10.03. In June 2000, Chambers broke 10 sec. and eventually went as low as 9.87. He was a favorite for gold in Athens until he was banned from the Olympics for life after testing positive last year to the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone. And Shirvington? He won't be in Athens either, having made himself sick trying to achieve a time that appears to be beyond his body's natural limits...
...interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches. One, voice thick with contempt, told me I was "pathetic" for investigating steroid use by athletes under his care, that all steroids do is "make you more of a man," and that it's the "responsibility" of some athletes to use them...
...PUMPED? A steroid scandal trips up U.S. track-and-field stars...
James Coleman, a Duke law professor who has both prosecuted and defended track-and-field athletes in steroid cases, suggests that labs save all urine samples to prevent athletes from staying one step ahead of the authorities by using ever newer steroids and masking agents. "They could preserve the sample," he says. "Take a sample after every athlete wins a major race or sets a world record. And as you develop new tests, test a portion. If the athlete cheated, you can always take back the record. You can always take back the victory." But that solution overlooks one important...