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Dope - A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today (Hardcover)
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Dope - A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today (Hardcover)
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Since the dawn of athletic competition during the original Olympic
Games in Ancient Greece, athletes, as well as their coaches and
trainers, have been finding innovative ways to gain an edge on
their competition. Some of those performance-enhancement methods
have been within the accepted rules while other methods skirt the
gray area between being within the rules and not, while still other
methods break the established rules. In modern times, doping - the
use of performance-enhancing drugs - has been one method athletes
and their trainers have used to beat their competition. The history
of sports doping during the modern era can be traced through the
events and scandals of the times in which the athletes lived. From
the use of amphetamines and other stimulants in the early 20th
century, to the use of testosterone and steroids by both the USSR
and the United States during Cold War-era Olympics games, to blood
doping and EPO, to designer drugs, the history of doping in sports
closely follows the medical and technological advances of our
times. In the early 21st century, the possibility of genetically
engineered athletes looms. The story of doping in sports over the
last century offers clues to where the battle over performance
enhancement will be fought in the years to come. This book includes
a timeline of major milestones/events in the history of doping from
the mid-1800s onward. It also shows that a number of popularly
circulated stories about doping in sports don't hold up under close
examination. For example, in 1886, an English cyclist was said to
have died following the Bordeaux to Paris Derny race. However, the
Bordeaux to Paris race didn't exist in 1886. It was first run in
1891.Second, the cyclist who supposedly died in 1886 actually died
in 1896-from typhoid fever, rather than doping-related causes. To
round this landmark study, Dope features an afterword that
addresses the final conclusion of the Floyd Landis doping case and
brings the content up to the minute on other current doping
scandals.
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Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2008 |
First published: |
June 2008 |
Authors: |
Daniel M. Rosen
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-34520-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-313-34520-1 |
Barcode: |
9780313345203 |
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