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Performance Enhancing Drugs | Athletes Must Stop Using Performance- Enhancing Drugs

Merrell Noden is a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated and the author of Home Run Heroes: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and a Season for the Ages.

Source: The sport of track and field has been tarnished by the use of performance-enhancing drugs among its leading competitors. Each new world record raises suspicions that the record-breaker was using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs. To reduce the temptation among athletes to use drugs and foster more realistic expectations from fans, competition should be emphasized over record-breaking as the...

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