Author Topic: Are bodybuilding & steroids one & the same thing?  (Read 589 times)

hifrommike

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Are bodybuilding & steroids one & the same thing?
« on: July 22, 2007, 03:59:20 PM »
I was wondering why general sports news media don't cover bodybuilding, so I went onto the New York Times website & did a search of its database using the term "bodybuilding."  In the first 10 hits, 7 of them were articles about steroids.  None of the articles were about bodybuilders, though; they were about baseball players, Olympics athletes, etc., who were connected to steroids & the term "bodybuilding" came up in relation to that.  The closest to real bodybuilding issues was an article about Julio Franco (a pro baseball player) looking at bodybuilding magazines to improve his training. 

Is this a fluke?  Or is this part of why competitive bodybuilding isn't discussed in sports sections, even though they do discuss poker, spelling bees, & now dancing (ESPN is developing a "dancing with the athletes" program right now).