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Entertainment & Sports

Sep. 9, 2000

Tough Test

By Howard Jacobs. As Olympic sports gained popularity and importance, the incentive for improvement increased. Athletes seeking an advantage began exploiting pharmaceutical advances. In the 1970s, East Germany conducted the first large-scale, controlled program of chemical enhancement, or doping, and rose from obscurity to Olympic prominence.

By Howard Jacobs
        As Olympic sports gained popularity and importance, the incentive for improvement increased. Athletes seeking an advantage began exploiting pharmaceutical advances. In the 1970s, East Germany conducted the first large-scale, controlled program of chemical enhancement, or doping, and rose from obscurity to Olympic prominence.
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