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Some fragments from an article on drug use in British sport from the 1960s onwards.
Reference:
Waddington, Ivan. 2005. "Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s". In: Sport in History Volume 25, Issue 3, 472-496.
[quote article now....]In December 1987, The Times newspaper published a three-part investigation into doping in British sport.
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The Times characterized the history of drug taking among British
athletes during the previous fifteen years as involving three processes: ‘the
spread from the throwing events to all the track and field disciplines; the
spread from international down towards club level and the involvement of
youngsters; and official connivance to cheat the testing system’.
...
'In the 1980s, with increasingly sophisticated
products, the athlete using drugs is as likely to be a long jumper as a
hammer-thrower and even the once sacrosanct middle- and long-distance
events are not immune’
...
Among the athletes with whom The Times spoke was Dave Abrahams, a former United Kingdom indoor record-holder in the high jump. Abrahams described the journey home following the 1982 Common-
wealth Games in Brisbane, Australia: ‘On the plane back, most of the
English team were talking about drugs. I’d say 80 per cent of them were,
or had been on them.’ John Docherty, a former Scottish international 400-
metre hurdler who at the time lived in the south of England, said that
drug taking was already spreading down from the elite level to Southern
League athletics
...
It is clear that, by this time, there was already developing in at least
some sports within Britain a culture that was shared by some athletes and
coaches and which involved not only an acceptance of doping but also a
significant degree of organization to obtain drugs and avoid detection.
[Peter] Coni described overseas training camps involving British athletes in which
athletes ‘sat down with their coach to work through the coming
competitive season, dividing up between them the events at which testing
might occur so that each would have ‘‘come off ’’ drugs for only the
minimum period to evade the risk of detection if called for testing’.
Clearly there was already a substantial demand for, and use of,
performance-enhancing drugs by British athletes; a particularly striking
revelation by Coni related to a training camp in Portugal in the early
1980s at which the local chemists’ shops ‘ran out of anabolic steroids because of the purchases by British athletes’ [/quote]
And it goes on like that. Very interesting reading. Makes a complete mockery of the idea of clean (British) top sport. I might post up some more later.
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Some fragments from an article on drug use in British sport from the 1960s onwards.
Reference:
Waddington, Ivan. 2005. "Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s". In: Sport in History Volume 25, Issue 3, 472-496.
[quote article now....]In December 1987, The Times newspaper published a three-part investigation into doping in British sport.
...
The Times characterized the history of drug taking among British
athletes during the previous fifteen years as involving three processes: ‘the
spread from the throwing events to all the track and field disciplines; the
spread from international down towards club level and the involvement of
youngsters; and official connivance to cheat the testing system’.
...
'In the 1980s, with increasingly sophisticated
products, the athlete using drugs is as likely to be a long jumper as a
hammer-thrower and even the once sacrosanct middle- and long-distance
events are not immune’
...
Among the athletes with whom The Times spoke was Dave Abrahams, a former United Kingdom indoor record-holder in the high jump. Abrahams described the journey home following the 1982 Common-
wealth Games in Brisbane, Australia: ‘On the plane back, most of the
English team were talking about drugs. I’d say 80 per cent of them were,
or had been on them.’ John Docherty, a former Scottish international 400-
metre hurdler who at the time lived in the south of England, said that
drug taking was already spreading down from the elite level to Southern
League athletics
...
It is clear that, by this time, there was already developing in at least
some sports within Britain a culture that was shared by some athletes and
coaches and which involved not only an acceptance of doping but also a
significant degree of organization to obtain drugs and avoid detection.
[Peter] Coni described overseas training camps involving British athletes in which
athletes ‘sat down with their coach to work through the coming
competitive season, dividing up between them the events at which testing
might occur so that each would have ‘‘come off ’’ drugs for only the
minimum period to evade the risk of detection if called for testing’.
Clearly there was already a substantial demand for, and use of,
performance-enhancing drugs by British athletes; a particularly striking
revelation by Coni related to a training camp in Portugal in the early
1980s at which the local chemists’ shops ‘ran out of anabolic steroids because of the purchases by British athletes’ [/quote]
And it goes on like that. Very interesting reading. Makes a complete mockery of the idea of clean (British) top sport. I might post up some more later.
[ /quote]
but eh, as Lance Uppercut tells us, affal athletes alliterationz r a breed apart and have axiomatically a different ethic craigsaundersbohdanbabijczukbuttifanttonydohertygazelledankchartersplural are not the evil ones, albert is not evil, shane woewodin is not evil thanking charter on his brownlow victory, correction, charters plural, but woewodin was pretty stupid thanking him, and bulldogs fmr ceo simon garlick, and darce and scott west. it is how the sausage is made folks, and Durian rider may even be correct, certainly more correct than the ignorance that prevails, and obviously i was not seriously using lance as the example, inverting his voice...
and all those trainers and scientists and doctors prolly very professional and have an expertise and protect an athlete from topping themself with PEDs. thats the line the cycling MDs say, and I see a validity in that.
p'raps RussellEbertHandball and b0ydman can provide some examples from Wermer Reiterer's PosiT!ve tomb[sic] but the tome aint that thick to be a tome. too thin, needed more roids.
the book that was banned, yeah, i used licence
too much weights not enuf speed work brah
and all those trainers and scientists and doctors prolly very professional and have an expertise and protect an athlete from topping themself with PEDs. thats the line the cycling MDs say, and I see a validity in that.
p'raps RussellEbertHandball and b0ydman can provide some examples from Wermer Reiterer's PosiT!ve tomb[sic] but the tome aint that thick to be a tome. too thin, needed more roids.
the book that was banned, yeah, i used licence
too much weights not enuf speed work brah
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