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Sports Illustrated August 3, 2000 |
IOC to target EPO dopers ...the International Olympic Committee will conduct tests for the cutting-edge performance enhancer erythropoietin... |
AskMen.com October 4, 2000 Mark Simmons |
Olympic Drug Scandals Ah, the beautiful Olympic games: great athleticism, camaraderie and professionalism. But come every four years, the not-so-glamorous drugs also make their unwanted appearance... |
Sports Illustrated August 11, 2000 Tim Layden |
Track & Field snapshot six weeks from Sydney Such a varied roster of elite performers has emerged in the past 30 years that it's common in certain events to have all six continents represented in a single race. Yet it is also a tiny world. |
Wired January 2007 Mark McClusky |
The Righteous Fury of Dick Pound As head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this man is on a crusade to rid elite sports of performance-enhancing drugs. And he's making a few enemies along the way. |
AskMen.com January 7, 2004 Steve Seepersaud |
Steroid Use In Sports If the guys around you are using supplements, the pressure is high to keep up with them. For pro athletes, high-profile jobs and very high incomes are at stake. |
Sports Illustrated August 3, 2001 Tim Layden |
World's best ready to run Five questions to ponder on the eve of the track and field world championships in Edmonton, Alberta... |
Sports Central March 14, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Gambling With Steroids Olympic athletes who try to bend the rules are ousted and excommunicated. Baseball players who have steadily used steroids in the past should go the same way. |
Sports Illustrated August 4, 2001 Tim Layden |
Yegorova beats the system Russian runner Olga Yegorova, a proven EPO user, was cleared Saturday by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the result of an unconscionable oversight that leaves the championships -- and the sport -- open to a sweeping embarrassment.... |
Sports Illustrated September 25, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Out of the shadows Despite controversy, track athletes excel |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Victor Conte Interview We caught up with Victor Conte, possibly the most infamous non-athlete associated with steroids, to find out if the next generation of athletes are destined to raise the bar by juicing, just as snowboarders and tennis players do by continuously getting improved equipment? |
Outside July 2005 Brian Alexander |
The Awful Truth About Drugs in Sports Drug-testing expert Don Catlin is the doping detective who helped break the BALCO scandal wide open- and the man who's about to launch a radical new campaign to finally solve the problem of drugs in sports. |
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
To catch a cheating athlete As the athletes take center stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Steroid Excuses Athletes are known for their physical gifts and not their intellectual aptitude, which explains why there have been so many far-fetched steroid excuses over the years. These top 10 steroid excuses have been used by many athletes. |
Outside November 2003 Stuart Stevens |
Drug Test Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist out to try them and report back. |
Sports Illustrated May 5, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Olympic burnout factor Q&A on the Olympics: increasing surge of interest rising in the 2000 Games in the U.S. public and media?... How does the United States' shot put, discus and hammer throwers look this year?... Has the IOC ever considered offering "at large" berths to athletes... etc. |
Sports Illustrated August 15, 2000 Tim Layden |
Inside Olympic Sports Low-profile champs Allen Johnson and Charles Austin keep winning |
Outside June 2004 Heil & Bradley |
Spinning in Their Graves The Tour's new scandal: Elite cyclists are mysteriously dropping dead. |
AskMen.com Mark Simmons |
Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? Some say they get paid too much for their services, others say they deserve every penny they receive. You be the judge. |
Reason January 2003 Dayn Perry |
Pumped-Up Hysteria Forget the hype. Steroids aren't wrecking professional baseball. |
Wired September 2000 Andrew Tilin |
Ready, Set, Mutate! International jock police should forget about controlling technology's impact on sports. It's the 21st century - let the augmentations begin. We've compiled a cutting-edge athlete's duffel of techno-enhanced clothing, equipment, and drugs that will help the world's athletes mine gold... |
Sports Illustrated April 6, 2000 |
Track is still big-time to some of us |
Sports Central April 15, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
noBOdy Knows Better A look at the differences in character and professionalism between Bo Jackson and current athletes. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2012 Michael Stow |
Protecting the spirit of competition With the London 2012 Olympics now upon us, the issue of doping in sport is once more in the media spotlight. As new therapies emerge from the pharmaceutical industry, we must be vigilant for new doping threats and new and improved detection methods are continually investigated and developed. |
Sports Central March 22, 2005 Andre Watson |
McGwire Loses in Court of Public Opinion For a person who seemed larger-than-life while he was on the baseball diamond, Mark McGwire's poor performance at the congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball will have a lasting effect on his legacy. |
Sports Illustrated April 20, 2001 Tim Layden |
More than just talent Kenyan runners dominate because of superb work ethic... |
Sports Central May 20, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Baseball's Steroid Fallout Our nation's pastime faces a steroid epidemic which stands to destroy the credibility of some of baseball's brightest stars. |
AskMen.com Chris McKenna |
Mind Training For Athletes You don't have to be working out for long before you realize that it's not just your body that you have to train. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2012 |
Chemistry and the Olympics Emma Davies looks into the vital role chemistry will play during the Olympic and Paralympic games |
Sports Illustrated August 8, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympics Competition will be fierce when America's best dive into the Olympic trials |
Sports Illustrated October 2, 2000 |
Thanks for the memories SI writers weigh in with their favorite Sydney moments... |
Sports Central February 25, 2009 Bill Hazell |
A-Rod and the Steroid Era It seems that many want to pretend that they were not surprised by the admission of one Alex Rodriguez that he injected steroids |
American Family Physician March 1, 2001 Dale M. Ahrendt |
Ergogenic Aids: Counseling the Athlete Numerous ergogenic aids that claim to enhance sports performance are used by amateur and professional athletes. If physicians can guide athletes away from disproven and dangerous supplements, while maintaining honest lines of communication, then serious health risks may be prevented... |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Sports Illustrated August 23, 2000 Frank Deford |
Do athletic beauties defy stereotypes? Most arguments about sex, like sex itself, involve both sexes. But currently, a discussion about sexiness in women's sports is pretty much an intra-gender conversation that's only between the ladies. The gentlemen, including this one, are standing on the sidelines, happy only to watch. |
Popular Mechanics July 31, 2008 Matt Sullivan |
Beijing's Smog Effect, Next-Gen Doping Tests & Fenway Park's Scoreboard: Science of Sports PODCAST Can Beijing clean up its air in time for healthy Olympic competition... Independent tests could finally rid pro cycling of banned substances... Behind the Green Monster at baseball's trading deadline... |
Sports Illustrated May 31, 2000 |
The martial artistes Sport, of course, evolved from warfare, and in many games, the athlete is still presumed to be a surrogate warrior. We in the grandstands, are, of course, unindicted conspirators, and our appreciation of violence is different only in degree from what you see the barbarous Roman populi cheering for in the current Gladiator movie... |
Sports Central December 5, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Athletes' Illicit Behavior Transcends Sports If you have observed all of the legal, moral, and ethical challenges all of our sports have suffered, especially this year, there remains a common thread in all of their frailties. No individual athlete should be considered above the game or sport in which they are engaged. |
Sports Central August 31, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head. |
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 Arlene Weintraub |
Can Drug-Busters Beat New Steroids? Scientists enlisted by anti-doping agencies are trying to stay a step ahead of the cheaters as the Athens Olympics approach. |
Chemistry World February 23, 2006 Henry Nicholls |
Mind-Altering Drugs at the Olympics As further evidence of performance-enhancing drug use at the Winter Olympics in Turin emerges, researchers have unveiled the first study to quantify the psychological effects of taking recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) on endurance athletes. |
Salon.com September 25, 2000 Gary Kamiya |
Night of the thoroughbreds On an evening of amazing feats, an Australian hero and an American legend shone the brightest. |
Sports Central January 22, 2010 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Cardinal Sins and Sexual Healing Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids after years of refusing to discuss the matter. it was reported that Tiger Woods has entered a sex addiction clinic. Are these forgivable offenses? |
Sports Central December 3, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Why McGwire Belongs in Cooperstown There's not a single reason to keep Mark McGwire out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
Sports Central September 26, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Baseball's Big Embarrassment If those in charge of the sport don't change what is happening to their game in an appropriate manner, they will lose their fan base permanently. |
Reason April 2009 Anderson & Jackson |
Putting Stars Behind Bars How did breaking sports rules become a federal offense? |
Registered Rep. August 29, 2012 Diana Britton |
Cold Call with John McCardell John McCardell works with several athletes and coaches, including Dawn Staley, three-time Olympic gold medalist in U.S. basketball. What types of financial decisions do Olympians have to make post-games? |
Sports Illustrated July 21, 2000 Tim Layden |
Trials are a true test The issue lies dormant and then arises once every four years. Clearly, the U.S. Olympic track and field trials are -- by far -- the best track meet held on American soil. Athletes are physically peaked and emotionally prepared for a moment that is absolutely a cliche: a once-in-four-years shot at going to the Games.... |