Yes, performance enhancing substances were available to those athletes participating in the 2004 Games. The International Olympic Committee has stringent policies and testing procedures when it comes to performance enhancers and several athletes were expelled from their teams or lost their medals due the use of prohibited substances.
No. Officially Olympics athletes are not allowed to take steroids or other performance enhancing drugs which would result in being disqualified if discovered. Athletes are screened multiple times before and during the Olympics to keep everyone on a level playing field.
Steroids make athletes stronger. But it is illegal.
some times the athletes hurt them selves and they have to take steroids to get better
Some athletes have taken drug tests to prove they are not on steroids.
Athletes are tested for steroids and performance enhancers.
No Steroids.
steroids
It should be: 'Some athletes took drug tests to proove they were not on steroids'
"have taken" is correct
Not usually. Steroids are injected by athletes to increase endurance and strength.
In track and field in America - 40 to 50% of the athletes In weight lifting, a competitor admitted to taking steroids and said it was okay because 80%-90% of the athletes he'd faced were using steroids
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