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Gaming the Games (PDF)

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Muscle & Fitness Magazine
by Jim Schmaltz
July 2012

Performance enhancing drugs will be part of the Summer Games.  How big a part depends on whom you ask, and who gets caught.

On July 27, more than 10,000 athletes from 205 countries will converge in London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. They'll carry with them the pride of nations, years of preparation, and dreams nurtured from childhood, all for a chance at a singular moment of athletic glory.

Many of them will also carry anabolic testosterone, EPO, beta blockers, human growth hormone, masking agents, amphetamines, designer steroids, and shady posses of enablers and dealers that ill hover outside the Olympic village like a black-market shadow convention.

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