The whole truth about the doping

Greek Olympics spawned the sport that we see today. Athletes of the past could not contact each other before the competition, ruled out match-fixing.

But victory was mine in any way. This, in particular, says Professor of the University of Pennsylvania Charles Azalys: first Olympians preparing wine with special herbs, did not hesitate to hallucinogens and sitting on thick meat diet but meat in ancient Greece was usually served only once a month.

Since then, it took several thousands of years, but the situation in sport has not changed. We will tell you exactly where appeared the first doping, how it developed and how it became a real scourge of modern athletes.

 RomeSeventy five million ten thousand three hundred seventy one



The Romans also went on any tricks to win. The gladiators took strychnine, having a stimulating effect in small doses. Races of chariots, horses fluster alcoholic Mead, trying to give them extra energy and anger battle. Sport there was almost inseparable from military service, and soldiers before battles got a special herbal decoction of entire cohorts.

 

Wine for athletesForty eight million five hundred ninety seven thousand five hundred forty two



But really, the doctors turned in the nineteenth century. European and American athletes were quoted the so-called "Vino Mariani" is a vigorous blend of Bordeaux with Coca leaves. Itself Coca and chemically prepared her cocaine enjoyed enormous popularity among all segments of the population. The drug was treated with fatigue, helped to overcome hunger and give stamina.
 

The history of our civilization has not seen a clean sport

Charles Azalis,

Professor, University of Pennsylvania, doctor of science

 

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The vanguard in the difficult battle against doping was made by the athletics Federation IAAF. In 1928, the arch of its rules for the first time added a rather vague article prohibiting the use of stimulants. However, the sidebar was worded so vaguely that, with due diligence, and allow experienced trainers to find loopholes in the ban.

 

Doping in the attackTwo million one hundred twenty two thousand two hundred sixty five



The post-war years, from 1945 to 1967, was marked by the unprecedented rise of the use of stimulants in professional sport. In contrast to the legal Commission of the international sports associations have begun more actively and more carefully develop effective regulatory measures.

 

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The armies of many countries of the world supported the morale of soldiers amphetamines, stimulants of the nervous system. USA, Britain, Germany and Japan during the Second world war, the manufacture of this drug (has incredibly harmful effects on the body as a whole) were doing at the state level. For 50 years the substance has become an integral part of the training of the vast majority of athletes. Now, when the person destroying the drug is completely banned in almost all over the world, it is difficult to imagine.

 

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The American physician John Ziegler in 1954, was found in competition with his colleague controlling the state of the team from the USSR. Boson in the conversation, the Soviet doctor familiarly shared his recipe for victory: an honest Communist athletes he, without further ADO, pricked honest the testosterone. Home Ziegler conducted several experiments on myself — testosterone give good results, but instead gave the patient a bunch of side effects. In an attempt to synthesize a harmless counterpart, an American doctor created the first anabolic steroid approved by the FDA. Ziegler regret it until the end of days.

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I wish I could just pull this page from the book of my life

John Ziegler, the inventor of steroids
 

 The first deathSixty five million six hundred ninety two thousand three hundred ninety six



Doping wave rose to unprecedented heights and fell upon the athletes unstoppable tsunami. 26 August 1968, the Danish cyclist Knut Jenssen died on the track, becoming the first victim of the sports promoters. In the blood of the Whip found a fair amount of amphetamine. After 7 years, happened and the second death: Briton Tommy Simpson, zapiwati the same amphetamine brandy, fell on the second stage of the Tour de France.

 

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Finally, the number of deaths of athletes (and they can be counted in tens) forced governments around the world to take more stringent measures in the fight against stimulants. November 10, 1999, WADA created the World anti-doping Agency. The next Olympic games (Sydney, 2000) were held under the strict supervision of WADA. A few years from a chemist don Catlin synthesizes the first test that can detect synthetic anabolic steroids.

 

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Some time it seemed as if the situation is resolved completely. However, in 2012, American lance Armstrong stripped of all 7 wins in the previous race the Tour de France. This year marks our country: many athletes found in blood doping. It's funny, but WADA has accused the IAAF and the Association, once the first prohibiting the use of stimulants.published 

 

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