He could be in a pine box. I knew a few guys who took roids in high school and all were the same type of guy not the brightest and took for the wrong reasons.
The only reason why I could have any understanding would be for high end sports but even then if I was competing against you I would have a severe problem with it as a drug cheat is forcing me to possibly take the drugs to compete.
Who knows? Here is a review that goes far far back:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ghir.2009.04.009
One of the first performance enhancing substances to be tried was testosterone. Having identified the properties of this hormone by examining the behaviour of their animals following castration, the ancients were reported to eat the testes of other animals or humans to improve or heal their own [1]....
Prior to the introduction of doping regulation, there were ample reports of the use of performance enhancing drugs during the modern Olympic Games. In 1904, Thomas Hicks, winner of the marathon, took strychnine and brandy several times during the race.
Same source:
Anabolic steroids were referred to by the then editor of Track and Field News in 1969 as the ‘‘breakfast of champions”....
Subsequent testing and inquiries have shown that at least six of the Seoul men’s sprint finalists used drugs at some point in their careers. Eight years later, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games were termed the ‘‘Growth Hormone Games” by some athletes [1] while the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were nicknamed the ‘‘Dirty Games”, because of the large number of articles discussing performance enhancing drugs at the games.
omen wrote:
Never made sense why East Africans should be any less at sprinting than distance. Omanyala is proving the point.
Sure it makes sense, it's all about genetics and population dynamics. One outlier is not a pattern.
Alan
Compare this thread to the current Deno one on the resurgence of white sprinters.