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...WITH ALL THE ALLEGATIONS OF STEROID USE, SHOULD PLAYERS BE TESTED FOR DRUGS NEXT YEAR...
...Doubts Allegations that an American gold medal winner at the 2000 Olympics failed a drugs test a year before emerged during a World Anti-doping Agency summit in Montreal. According to a confidential enquiry chaired by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, the unnamed athlete tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone in July 1999. The athlete was given a two-year ban in March 2000, but was exonerated on appeal in time for the U.S. Olympic trials in July. The American governing body USA Track and Field (USATF) refuses to name the offender, one of 17 who failed dope tests...
...moved to the United States in 1961 to work for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Pennsylvannia where his research in synthetic steroid hormones helped formulate a cost-effective contraceptive, the Wyeth’s Ovral birth control pill, which was released in the United States...
...morality, Mormon culture more perfectly embodies the old Olympic spirit than the Games do. Unfortunately, this achievement was compromised by the way in which Salt Lake City won the Games. By pursuing victory at all cost, the local boosters sullied their high standards in much the same way that steroid-popping athletes do. Purity was sacrificed to pragmatism. The Salt Lake City Olympic committee pulled a sort of financial Tanya Harding, hoping to rig the results in the arena by pulling shameful shenanigans in the alley. The Olympic flame may symbolize great things, but lately it's had a tendency...
...enzyme is 11ß hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11ß HSD-1), which works to recycle a steroid stress hormone called cortisol. Though necessary for the body to maintain strength, cortisol may cause weight gain, high blood pressure and diabetes when produced by the body in excessive amounts...