Doping in international sports has been a problem. The Olympics has had the biggest problems when it comes to doping. The problems date back to the early 20th century. Back when the roman gladiators fought they would use plants to help with their endurance, speed, and injury recovery. As time went on people started to use other kind of performance enhancing drugs. Starting in the 1900’s athletes at the Olympics used strychnine, heroin, caffeine, and cocaine. When the 1930’s came around athletes widely used amphetamines to get the most out of themselves. In 1967 the International Olympic Committee made a list of band substances for the first time. The IOC was staring to crack down on doping in the Olympics, then in 1972 the IOC introduced anti doping test for the Munich games that year. This was a great start but athletes still doped at an extremely high rate. The IOC held an international conference in 1999 about athletes still doping, the IOC found out that there was rampant doping in the Tour de France in 1998 discovered by the police. At this conference the World Anti Doping Agency was founded (WADA). Even after the WADA was created athletes would still try to get way with doping. In 2006 a bunch of Spanish athletes would receive injections of performance enhancing drugs. As much as we can penalize athletes for doping, they will always find a way to get over the top. Maybe it is in our nature because of competition to do whatever it takes to be the best. The one thing that we do know that it is unfair for the other athletes that honor the rules of competition. Maybe enforcing stricter rules on doping will help? As much as we try to get ride of doping in the Olympics there will always the those athletes that still do it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2219897/
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