Drug-Free Sports Might Be Thing of Past. Tom Weir.
by Weir, Tom; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 42Institutions. Publisher: USA Today, 2004ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Athletes -- Drug use | Baseball -- Records | Baseball players | Doping in sports | Drug abuse -- Testing | Home runs (Baseball) | Major League Baseball | SteroidsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The BALCO investigation appears to have exposed the most star-studded group of steroid-using athletes ever, but any cynic is rightfully entitled to point out that this investigation also might be the biggest fluke in sports history....Given the million-dollar incentives that exist for athletes to cheat and the expertise renegade scientists have developed to beat tests, some experts doubt sports ever can return to a drug-free era." (USA TODAY) This article relates how some experts doubt "athletes will cease to explore ways to chemically enhance their performances, particularly with surveys showing that more than 1 million adolescents already have tried steroids."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Drug-Free Sports Might Be Thing of Past, Dec. 7, 2004; pp. n.p..
"The BALCO investigation appears to have exposed the most star-studded group of steroid-using athletes ever, but any cynic is rightfully entitled to point out that this investigation also might be the biggest fluke in sports history....Given the million-dollar incentives that exist for athletes to cheat and the expertise renegade scientists have developed to beat tests, some experts doubt sports ever can return to a drug-free era." (USA TODAY) This article relates how some experts doubt "athletes will cease to explore ways to chemically enhance their performances, particularly with surveys showing that more than 1 million adolescents already have tried steroids."
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