Bart, Linda
Bleck, Westermann
Eng 99/151
10/15/08
Summary Ch. 39
The “Top Ten Sports Scandals by CBS Sports Online” described different substances that athletes have used over the last decade or so. “East German Athletes” doped by their government to achieve maximum performance. Nitschke became the first Olympic athlete to return her medals and ask her name to be stripped from the records due to her use of steroids. Although when found out the German government gave out 2.18 million dollars to athletes to cover medical only 197 athletes came forward to claim the funds. The ”1983 Pan Am Games” was the dawning of mandated regulated drug testing for athletes who compete in national sports. Guy Greavette, a Canadian weight lifter, was the first to be stripped of his medals and suspended for testing positive of anabolic steroid use. In the “U.S Track and Field” cover up nineteen players were allowed to compete even though they had failed testing previously in field test. USOC the worlds testing company then turned reigns over to U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for any all enhancement drug testing. “Canada’s Ben Johnson” became the world’s example stripped of his medal for testing positive for steroids. Although just fifteen years later results show that other players had been using steroids including U.S. winner Carl Lewis. “Irish swimmer Michelle Smith” , who went from 90th to 17th in the world swim team, tested positive for alcohol levels that would kill a person. Two officials showed at her home to give an at home test; although never proven the supposition is that she was covering steroid use with spiked test results. “Chinese Dynasty“, the swim team live under cloud of doping scandals, over forty swimmers tested positive since 1990. “Tour De France’s” scandal involved FINA who created a tougher testing regime four swimmers were forced to step down because of the suspicious tests Tour De France cyclist had the biggest dope bust of all. Team members caught with a car load full of erythropoietin. 1998 six of the nine Festina cyclist riders admitted to using enhancing drugs, including EPO a drug that affects the oxygen in the blood cells. “Baseball”, one of the few sports not having to test, has some of the biggest doping problems of them all. In 2003, USADA enforces random testing after two rosters full of ball players came back positive for enhancement drugs. The biggest consequences fall on the baseball members who are caught in the BALCO scandal. “Cross-Country Skiing” involves a different type of scandal; blood transfusing deemed doping in the case of Nordic cross-country skiers found to have used it for the Salt Lake City Olympics Two non-medalist forced to step down and two team officials put on suspension for two winter games. “Nandrolone” has become the most predominate drug used by athletes in today’s society. The biggest excuse that has been found is that most athletes don’t realize they have taken Nandrolone due to non-listed ingredients on their food packages.