Olympic Athlete Drug Use

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Olympic Athlete Drug Use

• By
• Jon Hering
• Adam Larson
• Jason Adam
• Courtney Stewart
• Lindsi Yarbrough
• Josh Bailey
• David Burch
• Jason

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History

• Substance use dates back over 2000 years
• 1960s
• Amphetamine use first brought to IOC attention
• 1963 First publication of banned substances
• 1967 Basic principles of IOC drug testing
  outlined
• Protection of athlete's health
• Defense of Sports Ethics
• Equality for all participants at competition

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History (Continued)

• 1970s
• 1972 68 of Olympic athletes admitted using
  steroids before they were banned
• 1976 IOC began drug testing
• 1980s
• 1981 Laboratories established in Germany,
  Russia, UK, Switzerland, Canada
• 1990s Present
• 1990 Australian Sports Drug Agency takes
  leading role in fighting drug use
• 1991 IOC began testing during training without
  warning

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Olympic Rules Tests

• Testing during training
• Done with in 24 hour notice after phone call
• Or by no notice
• Event testing notified immediately following
  event
• Chaperoned to drug control
• Urine sample required and by supervised by drug
  control officer
• Two samples (AB) are specially sealed and sent
  to lab for analysis

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Drugs Methods Used

• Banned Substances
• Anabolic Steroids Increase muscle mass and
  performance, synthetic version of testosterone,
  more frequent training at higher intensity with
  rapid recuperation
• Types oral, injectables, gels, patches, nasal
  sprays
• Diuretics Increase urine flow, promote the
  removal of excess water, salt, poisons, and
  accumulated metabolic products, sloughing of
  intestinal lining

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Drugs Methods Used (Continued)

• Banned Substances
• Peptide hormones stimulate growth, increases
  muscle mass
• Beta Blocker regulates energy stores so there is
  a spike in energy right before competition
• Banned Methods
• Blood Doping enhances performance by increasing
  RBC mass to deliver more oxygen to muscles
• EPO undetectable, genetically engineered to
  stimulate bone marrow to make RBCs.

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Drugs Methods Used (Continued)

• Other Banned Substances
• Marijuana
• Alcohol
• Local Anesthetics
• Cortisteriods
• Growth Hormones

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Harmful Effects

• Anabolic Steroids
• Jaundice, liver damage, heart problems
• Diuretics
• Dehydration, serious kidney and heart failure
• Peptide Hormones
• Risk of heart attack and stroke due to blood
  clotting
• Beta Blockers
• Heart failure, lower blood pressure
• Blood Doping
• Increased blood viscosity, decreased cardiac
  output, reduced aerobic capacity

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Current Events

• Common Sports Using Substances
• Track Field, swimming, weight lifting, cycling
  (blood doping)
• 41 would be Olympians tested positive before
  Sydney
• 9 thrown out after arriving in Sydney before
  competition
• 8 disqualified after competition
• 27 from China
• C.J. Hunter Husband of Marian Jones tested
  positive for steroids
• Andreea Raducan Romanian gymnast stripped of
  Gold Medal after ingesting cold medicine

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Questions