Anabolic Steroids were banned from Olympic competition just before the nineteen seventy six Olympics, but steroids were introduced to athletes years before the Montreal Olympics. ... Johnson had to give back all the gold metals that he won during the Olympics, and in the one hundred meter dash the winner was Carl Lewis. ... In the nineteen eighty eight Olympics Ben Johnson, a Canadian Olympic sprinter, was the first athlete caught testing positive for anabolic steroid use. During the Montreal Olympics Johnson won the Gold medal in the one-hundred meter dash and also broke the world record, ...

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However, the International Olympic Committee, the National Football League, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association ban the use of androstenedione supplements. ... Legality The International Olympic committee, the National Football League, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association have all banned the use of androstenedione supplements. ...

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It is in this final point, by which the image and integrity of many sports organizations, including the Olympics, have been damaged by revelations of the widespread use of illegal drugs. Currently, the International Olympic Committee prohibits the use of anabolic steroids for performance enhancement (Anabolic Steroids 2002). ... Ben Johnson drew considerable negative attention to himself, as well as to Canada, as a sports competitor when he was tested positive for using anabolic steroids following a win in the 100 m race at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. ...

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Olympic drug policies. The National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Major League Baseball (MLB) players will be subject to random testing for performance-enhancing drugs up to a year before the Olympic Games. ... The USOC executive committees are looking for drugs that will enhance performance. Under a resolution passed by the USOC professional hockey, basketball and baseball players will have to submit their names a year before any Olympics that they want to compete in. ...

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If you compare the health risks smoking cigarettes is multiple times worse, yet is still allowable by the Olympic committee, but not many people take part in it because they know of the health risks. ... Why, if the committee is trying to look out for the safety of athletes, would they not ban the smoking of cigarettes but make it illegal to use something of medical value. ...

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