Guns and Needles: The Murky World of Sports Doping
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Doping in South Africa Is a Global Issue?
Do you think this is a global issue? In rugby, certainly, I mean, in cases all the time. But then moving across other sports, we see the Russian situation where athletes have been involved in state sponsored club. And then, of course, you know what's happening in Kenya as well, it's becoming ubiquitous in Kenya in athletics. So there's probably more who are saying, 'I'm not telling you even if you guarantee anonymity', and that could go on for years. There's also pressure to look good at school - 63% say they do it just to look good,. That was twice as many boys as those taking performance-enhancing drugs. You've got two
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