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The Olympic Games are supposed to be a testament to human willpower and achievement. But they’re also about competing for gold, and doing whatever it takes to come in first. At every Games in recent memory — and surely Beijing is no different — athletes have used illegal performance-enhancing drugs to win. Many have been […]

Annette H. of Cape Coral e-mailed: I have heard a lot about doping and testing of athletes at the Olympics. Can you tell me more about the steroids they’re using?
What a timely question Annette, and one that certainly sent me back to the books for some research. As a cycling fan, I watched the Tour […]

Amid doping concerns at the Beijing Olympics, Deutsche Welle spoke to anti-doping campaigner Ines Geipel, once track-and-field athletics world record holder of East Germany.
Deutsche Welle: Miss Geipel, if I can’t quite make it on the track without a coffee in the morning, is that also a kind of doping?
Ines Geipel: Well yes, one can use […]

November 18, 2007
BY MIKE HUTTON Post-Tribune staff writer
If the Feds get him, I won’t feel any sense of satisfaction.
The steroid problem in baseball is so deep and rooted in the fabric of the game over the last 20 years, that to throw Barry Bonds out there as some kind of scapegoat for HGH, anabolic steroids […]

Nov 15, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - The home run king wasn’t home free after all.
Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.
The indictment came just three months after the […]