Steroids in Sports and Baseball

Published: September 26, 2006, 3:46 pm

Steroids in Sports and Baseball The story of steroid use in sports began just before the World Weightlifting Championships of 1954. The Soviets had made their Olympic debut in Helsinki in 1952, and made quite an impact, but nothing compared to the show they put on in 1954. That year, the Soviets easily dominated most of the weight classes. As the story goes, John Ziegler (team physician for the United States) questioned the soviet team's doctor after the medals were given out, and the soviet doctor said that his team had been receiving testosterone injections. That, in all probability, was the first time anyone had ever used anabolic steroids to enhance performance in an athletic event. According to some unconfirmed sources, testosterone preparations were used by Germany's Olympic team in 1936 for the Berlin Olympics. At that time, there were rumours that an Olympic medal winner had previously used oral Testosterone preparations, but the benefit to be

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