Olympic doping
Games drug scandal
Olympic doping is the use of banned performance-enhancing substances or methods by athletes competing in the Olympic Games.
The term covers everything from steroids and blood transfusions to more sophisticated techniques designed to evade detection.
Doping scandals have led to stripped medals, lifetime bans, and even the exclusion of entire national teams: Russia was barred from competing under its flag due to state-sponsored doping.
- steroidsPerformance-enhancing hormones
- banned substanceOutlawed item or compound
- bannedOfficially disallowed
- athletesSports competitors
- cheatingDeceptive rule-breaking
drug test · testing · scandal · blood sample · performance · enhancing · drugs · medals · stripped · disqualified · urine · blood · WADA · Russia · cycling · Lance Armstrong · EPO · testosterone
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
- Anti-DopingWADA, banned substances, drug testing, NADA, positive test
- WhistleblowersEdward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Deep Throat, leakers, exposers