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Performance Enhancing Drugs | One Strike, You’re Out

Mark Starr is a sports columnist for Newsweek magazine.

Source: Olympic officials have begun to take the widespread abuse of performance-enhancing drugs by Olympic athletes seriously. The crackdown comes in response to fears that fans and sponsors will no longer support the Olympics if drug scandals become a regular feature of the Games. Newly established anti-doping agencies have increased the investment in drug tests designed to keep pace with drug cheats, who continually use new drugs and masking agents to beat the tests. A successful program of random drug...

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