easts,aggression, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, impotence,and jaundice. In an article entitled Are Drugs Winning the Games? itis reported that there is no true way to test every athletefor use of steroids. It claims that 10 competitors forOlympic games at Seoul were ousted for taking steroids. However, it also claims that as people watched the events ontelevision, there was no way of telling if “you were seeinga clean or dirty event, a real athletic competition or aduel between pharmacists. (Sullivan, 35)This article goes on to say that most athletes who decide touse steroids for enhanced performance can do so withhard-to-detect drugs or to stop their intake well in advanceof expected tests. So, it is clear that many athletes aresophisticated enough to carefully monitor intake of bannedsubstances such as steroids and still pass Olympic tests. Robert Sullivan, the author of this article, goes on to saythat certain strength builders are very popular amongathletes and may go undetected. Anabolic steroids, orstrength builders, are short acting, water-based steroidsthat can be flushed from the system in a matter of hours. The most popular are synthetic derivatives of testosterone,a hormone already present in the body. These are usuallyextremely difficult to detect. (Sullivan, 31) So, it isclear that athletes who want to subscribe to steroid use canstay ahead of drug testing by finding the best stuff totake. They seem to always be one step ahead of the drugtesters. In other words, drug testing is not alwaysdetecting someone using the drug, but it does promote a wellinformed group of athletes to stay ahead of them. Thesesame users believe that the enhanced performance is wellworth the possible side effects that may occur later. Unfortunately, we do not always hear from these athleteslong after their days of competition are over when theymight be suffering from the ill effects of the steroids.We only hear of the glory ev...
