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Robert Boyle
Title: Robert Boyle
Category: Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 895 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Robert Boyle
DRUGS IN SPORT
Drug use has been a part of competitive sport for almost a century. At the
first olympics in Athens in 1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of brandy and
strychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to control pain during a race.
Use of alcohol was very common in the early years of the twentieth century.
It might be argued that the first athletes to use drugs to enhance their
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…showed last 75 words of 895 total…Anabolic steroids are dangerous because they increase muscle strength
quickly but tissues and tendons are not strengthened at the same rate. That creates a
weakened, imbalanced body, putting the athlete at greater risk of injury. Longer use
of this drug snuffs out sexual interest. It can cause hurt attacks, myocardial
infarction, and stroke, which can also mean sharing death from AIDS. Causes also
hair loss. Steroids raise blood pressure and blood cholesterol to dangerous levels.
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