Imagine this; in 1904 trainers give exhausted American runner Thomas Hicks a mixture of brandy and strychnine to keep him going during an Olympic road race. He wins, but subsequently collapses just past the finish line. In 1952, at the winter Olympics, several skaters become ill from amphetamines. In 1960, after taking amphetamines, Danish cyclist Knut Jensen crashes during an Olympics road race, fractures his skull, and dies. As one can see, all athletes either died or became very ill from trying to gain an edge on their competition. Those who lived were never viewed the same by the public. In today's world, taking drugs for improvement in sports is almost second nature; on the other hand, athletes do not know how many people they affect by this.
There are many types of performance enhancing drugs that athletes take and there are many adverse side affects. The first drug taken that had any effect on an athletes performance was amphetamines which were widely used by soldiers in......

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Title: Performance-Enhancing Drugs In Sports
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