| Title |
Spitting in the soup : inside the dirty game of doping in sports / Mark Johnson. |
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| Publication Info. |
Boulder, Colorado : Velo Press, [2016] |
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©2016 |
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| Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department
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362.29 JOHNSON |
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| Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department
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362.29 JOH |
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| Description |
408 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-399) and index. |
| Contents |
The origins of doping -- Pierre de Coubertin and the fair-play myth -- The fall of Coubertin's ideal -- The hot Roman day when doping became bad -- Doping becomes a crime -- The birth of the World Anti-Doping Agency -- Doping and the Cold War -- Anabolic steroids : sports as Sputnik -- The Reds are winning -- Spinning Olympic gold : L.A. 1984 -- The sports act delivers : gold in '84 -- Dr. Ferrari was right -- Fear makes good copy -- The War on Drugs -- Amphetamines for all -- Supplements : government-approved dope -- Charlie Francis : take it to make it -- DSHEA, steroids, and baseball's salvation -- If it's inherited, is it cheating? -- Moral drift and the American way -- The spirit of sport. |
| Subject |
Doping in sports.
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Doping in sports. (OCoLC)fst00896938
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| ISBN |
9781937715274: $24.95 |
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1937715272 |
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