The use of anabolic steroids came to the international public attention after Ben Johnson, the 100-meter sprinter, was stripped from his gold medal and that was in the summer Olympics in Seoul 1988. Drug testing can be through testing blood, hair, saliva, and the most important one is urine test. And after they are tested they are not allowed to eat or drink any thing as long as the committee seals it. The idea of drug testing was first implemented on racehorses in 1910 after finding alkaloids in the saliva. Dr. Arnold Beckett, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical commission, was the first to work on drug testing and it’s procedures. In 1963 the first list of the banned drugs was charted. Drug testing faces many barriers, one is that politics some times interfere to change some test results and another thing is that drug testing is too much costly, at least two million dollars are spent at each Olympic game testing. The IOC that was trying to control the use of the performance-enhancing drug took a great step after lunching its world anti-doping authority in the late 1999. This step was supported by enough money to make tests not necessary through competitions, and authorised the blood enhancing drug test. Sydney Olympics showed that authorities are no more turning a blind eye after preventing 35 Chinese from participating in the Olympics and lot of athletes were caught and stripped from their medals after showing positive steroids tests. Drug users, in particular steroid users, face so many disciplinary actions by the law and government of sports. Athletes who test positive in drugs, they are banned from going on in competing in his sport for two or more years.

As with many things in life there are advantages and disadvantages in legalising drugs. The only advantage I can see of drugs being used in sport would mainly be for the athletes. They would gain all their goals and thus become wealthier. Nevertheless there are many disadvantages. Firstly the athletes who are not ta

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