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Search results for "performance enhancing drugs" ...
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60 Minutes: Armstrong
"This story uncovers new evidence about accusations that have long haunted cyclist Lance Armstrong: that he was using performance enhancing drugs when he won the Tour de France. What was found was new information surrounding a federal grand jury that is now investigating whether Armstrong led a systematic doping program when he was captain of the U.S. team."
Tags: Lance Armstrong; performance enhancing drugs; Tour de France; broadcast
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Juiced in the Valley
"Juiced in the Valley is a series of reports exposing the illegal prescribing of anabolic steroids by a group of doctors at Revolution Medical Centers in Phoenix, Arizona."
Tags: steroid use; prescription fraud; clinics; overdose; suicide; performance-enhancing drugs
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No one is watching
"The articles investigated how schools in Division I-A college athletics test for drugs and the results of the testing. The Tribune found most schools do not test for performance-enhancing drugs and there are disparities in testing and punishments from school to school."
Tags: drug testing; performance-enhancing drugs; college athletics
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Performance Enhancing Drugs in the NFL
NFL players were taking humam growth hormone as a performance-enhancing drug because there was no reliable urine test for the drug. Then the HGH was mixed with low levels of steroids that would avoid detection.
Tags: national football leauge; Bob Costas; professional sport; medicine; steroid
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Ongoing Steroid Coverage
The year long investigation focused on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, particularly in baseball.
Tags: drugs; steroids; baseball; Mark McGwire; Jose Canseco; Major League Baseball
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Steroids and the NFL
This investigation exposed steroid and human growth hormone abuse by several professional football players who received prescriptions from a doctor who was subsequently indicted for prescribing them. The NFL drug testing program failed to detect the players' steroid use. This failure exposed loopholes in the NFL's substance abuse policies.
Tags: football; NFL; steroids; drug testing; performance enhancing drugs; human growth hormone
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Nowhere to Run, Last Laugh
These stories are an in-depth look at the use of steroids in professional and Olympic sports. They look at both steroid production and distribution, and is a very complete view of the industry. Additionally, the stories are enhanced by an in-depth look at two famous alleged steroid users: Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones.
Tags: steroids; performance enhancing drugs; Victor Conte; BALCO; sports; athletics
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Foreign Objects
A Star-Ledger investigation revealed that "while implants save or improve the lives of millions of people, thousands suffer in pain, disfigurement, immobility and, in some cases, death. The multimillion-dollar medical implant industry is supposed to be overseen by the Food and Drug Administration, but in fact it is regulated so laxly that devices often reach the market without clinical testing and with little oversight afterwards."
Tags: implants; medicine; artificial heart valves; pacemakers; dental implants; joint replacement; breast enhancements; Food and Drug Administration; FDA
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Has something to get off his chest
Texas Monthly profiles elite cyclist Lance Armstrong, the two-time Tour de France winner. "He doesn't use performance-enhancing drugs, he insists, no matter what his critics in the European press and elsewhere say. And yet the accusations keep coming," the magazine reports. The story depicts Lance's battle with testicular cancer, which had spread to his lungs and brain. The article examines how the use of EPO - a drug that saved Lance from cancer - and other dopes can enhance performance, and reveals how riders have always been a step ahead of the testers. A major finding is that "dopers enjoy a solidarity that is maintained by a code of silence."
Tags: Tour de France; doctors; drugs; doping; cycling; riding; tournaments; sponsors; champions; drug abuse; the Games; Olympics; muscles; Human Performance Laboratory at the University if Texas in Austin
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USOC- Drugs
The Early Show finds that "the former Chief Anti-doping Officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) claims the USOC encourages banned drug use by athletes by ignoring such use, and by ensuring a lax testing and punishment system." Gumbel, Owen and Zarpas found, among other things, that "several former athletes and coaches who are known to have used banned, performance-enhancing substances, were hired by the USOC to oversee its alleged 'anti-doping' efforts."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; drugs; olympic athletes; USOC; U.S. Olympics