There were 30 to 60 years of playing baseball, football and basketball without steroids. Have you ever seen the footage from back then. They players were real and the games meant something. Are you starting to post threads just to post.
ya, and Babe Ruth used Brandy as a performance enhancer...there have been Dopers since the beginning of time in sports..Just look at the Tour De France,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2007/07/30/sodrug130.xmlDoping is a part of the spirit of Le Tour. Since it began in 1903, riders have used drugs to cope with the ordeal, resorting to alcohol, caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines, steroids, growth hormone, EPO and blood doping. But all sports face the drug problem. The enormous rewards for the winner, the effectiveness of the drugs and the low rate of testing all create a cheating 'game' that has proved irresistible to some athletes.
Drugs such as EPO and growth hormone are natural chemicals in the body and are hard to detect. And the task will get tougher still. Gene doping, for example, will be virtually impossible to detect. This is a technique which allows the introduction of genes into an athlete's own genetic material, or DNA, to improve muscular strength or endurance.
http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/780/LeeY06.html
