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Despite the ideals of good sportsmanship and fair play that were introduced to us as children, sometimes we just don’t learn. The reality is that the pull of fame and fortune of being a sports champion is too much of a lure for dishonest athletes. To obtain the accolades and all the trappings associated with being a winner, cheaters will try to tilt the advantage in their favor by using performance enhancing drugs. Unfortunately, cheaters have always been one step ahead in the game of cat and mouse with the anti-doping agency that tests them for banned substances. However, it promises to be a different story for the upcoming Olympic Games as more sophisticated tests have been introduced. Methods of doping that was once impossible to detect are now turning up positive. The war against cheaters is on so expect a lot of disgraced athletes to be sent home early. Read the rest of this entry »