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Article: Rowing: The day I knew I was beaten by steroid users
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 26, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THE LAST thing the athlete who has succumbed to the pharmacist's
lure thinks about, is cheating. All competitors are in the business
of overcoming a number of petty disabilities to go faster, higher,
stronger. There are no gold medallists who have not trained for
years to get to the start line of the Olympic final, and along the
way several of their fellows will have been forcibly ejected after
testing positive.
When you are training for the top, coming in late, muscles too
dead to climb the stairs, when you are turning round for the
seventh repeat that evening of your entire Olympic event, the mind
is not telling you the same things as the TV newsreaders.
Each athlete in active competition ...