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Contemporary Sports Issues Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be banned in Sport? History The use of stimulants to improve an athlete's performance can be backdated all the way to the Ancient Greek times '...it was Galen who reported that ancient Greek athletes used stimulants to enhance their physical performance' (Mottram 2003, p29). From then till the modern day one vital thing has never changed, athletes wanting to win. The only discrepancy being how far an athlete will go to achieve this success. Throughout time people have aspired to reach higher levels of achievement in sporting situations to show prestige over others and acquire the feeling of success. Many athletes devote their lives to hopefully get this feeling, a feeling only they can truly appreciate due to the sacrifices that they must have made. But because of human's instinctive desire to succeed, it is needless to say that some looked for the easier routes to...

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