Cocaine has been used for 5000 years
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_cocaine
Anyone who thinks guys who picked up a weight during the 1900's and looked in the mirror and wanted to be bigger didn't constantly look for an advantage is naive and not understanding human history.
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Guys back then would drink a gallon of goat semen if they thought it would make them grow.
Yep, just for the record, athletes in ancient Greece were eating certain mushrooms and herb drink to get an edge over the competition.
Doping is as old as sports, and those dudes in the 19th century were certainly not innocent.
Doping in modern sports was reliably reported since the second half of the 19th Century.
1865 The first documented case occured in swimming during the Amsterdam canal event. Thereby the intake of an unnamed performance-enhancing drug was described.
1867 In the popular 6-days cycling races, the French athletes preferred mixtures based on caffeine, the Belgians used sugar mixed with ether, while others were using alcoholic beverages or nitroglycerin.
1896 The first reported death caused by doping occurred in this year. The English cyclist A. Linton died due to ephedrine intake during the race Paris-Bordeaux.
1904 At the St. Louis marathon, Tom Hicks who had just won the race collapsed and the Doctors proved strychnine and cognac intake before the race.
1910 James Jeffries claimed, after he had been beaten by Jack Johnson, that his tea was contaminated/doped in order to defeat him. This is the first reported case, in accusing doped athletes. Many similar cases of doping have been reported in Boxing during the first half of the 20th Century.
1920 Amphetamines, not only in sports a quite common drug during the 20th century, were produced for the first time in 1920.
1952 During the Oslo ice skating games, there was an increased concern when ampoules and syringes were found in athletes’ locker rooms.
1960 A dramatic increase in using doping substances started in the 1960s. The society believed those days that there were drugs capable of achieving everything. During the Olympic Games of Rome 1960, the Danish cyclist K. Jensen died due to an abuse of amphetamines.
1967 In 1967 the 30 year old British cyclist Tom Simpson (amphetamines) and the runner Dick Howard (heroin overdose) died. In 1968, one year later, the German Box fighter Jupp Elze died after an amphetamine-cocktail.
1976 In the Olympic Games of Montreal, the polish athlete Z. Kaczmarek and the bulgarian athlete V. Khristov (both weightlifters) were forced to return their golden medals after being proved for Doping.
1988 Many other medalists had the same fate with Ben Johnson during the Seoul Olympics being the best known example. He was tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid (Stanozolol), was stripped of his gold medal in 100 meter sprinting and was suspended for two years. Later, it was proven that all or almost all of the finalists in that race had taken forbidden substances.
