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Drug use has been a part of competitive sport for almost a century. At the first olympics in Athens in 1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of brandy and strychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to control pain during a race. Use of alcohol was ver ....

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.... even though they are only held every 4 years, represent the pinnacle of sporting achievement. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a critical role to play in demanding extensive drug testing and in providing funding for such testing. This is a controversial issue. The IOC believes that each of the international federations which governs particular sports should be responsible for its own testing. This seems reasonable enough, but it is argued that the Olympic Games are the highest profile competition in the world and the most prestigious. The world stops to watch them and they represent the culmination of years of work for athletes. W ....