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Posted By: Rob

It's a little known fact that that the 1st Olympic competitor disqualified for steroid use was 10,000 meter runner Martti Vaino in 1984. He would had escaped detection if he had not also not been blood doping, adding back his steroid tainted blood. Fact is his steroid use was not to build muscles, but to keep up a running regimen of running 100+ miles a week and not get injured.

The most startling physical transformation of an athlete with banned drugs was Florence Griffith Joyner. Her records from the 1988 olympics haven't been approached. Performance enhancing drugs had to had been widely used in baseball by then. I know I'd take them for the money that was at stake. Drug use in the 1990's simply got highly refined is all, to the point where the super juicers were leaving the clean athletes in the dust, to the point records got obliterated.

BTW, if the Colorado Rockies ever want to win 85 games in a season, they need to have their athletes dope back their own blood during the season. Heck, perhaps Todd Helton blood dopes, everyone else gets ground up during the course of a season at altitude.