Drug abuse in international athletics.

Abstract

cramp on the open stage at the Weightlifting World Championship in 1954, my special interest in drug abuse was awakened-all the more so because I thought that my more than 20 years’ activity in top performance sports had taught me enough about the sportsman’s mentality. Stimulated by further new-items concerning performance-improving drugs and different doping scandals, particularly in the international cycling field, we began to test differ-