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Steroids only get you so far in shot-putting

By Gare Joyce
Special to Page 2

Monday, August 4, 2008

Not a day goes by without anabolic steroids figuring in at least one story in the sports-news cycle. Last week, the International Olympic Committe stripped the U.S. men's 1600-meter relay team of its gold medal from the 2000 Games in Sydney after Antonio Pettigrew admitted at the trial of his former coach that he had used banned substances from 1997 to 2003. Days before Bulgaria pulled its entire weightlifting team from the Olympics after 11 lifters tested positive for steroids. It's not always ...

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