The battle against the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs [PEDs] in sports has reached a similar enigmatic juncture. The Miami based Bosch scandal threatens to rend the very fabric of Major League Baseball once again. Some 20-30 active players, including Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun and Melky Cabrera, are rumored to be facing up to 100 game suspensions. No one can name the last Tour de France drug-free victor. Commissioner Roger Goodell of the NFL last season suspended over 40 players for four games, the maximum penalty for first-time drug abuse. In golf, Tiger Woods used a Canadian doctor and his magic potions to assist his healing from leg injuries. It is not a well kept secret that some pros with the putting “yips” resort to beta blockers to calm their hearts. Kobe Bryant, the same Alex Rodriguez, and other elite athletes recovering from surgery have taken clandestine trips to a German clinic for “innovative treatments”. In track, at the World Championships in Moscow this summer, we are going to see several rehabilitated transgressors of PED protocols vie for a place on the podium. In distance running, the use of inhalers to increase lung capacity has become ubiquitous.
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