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S/N/361. Performance enhancing drugs in athletics: temptations, threats and control

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DATE:
2011
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The paper looks at the use of performance enhancing drugs in athletics discussing the history of the Olympic movement and its codes of conduct, explaining the need of drug testing and doping control, discussing performance-enhancing properties of drugs, and considering the effects of drug on the health of athletes. The activities of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are evaluated.

 

KEYWORDS: Performance enhancing drugs, athletics, doping control,

 
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