Spitting in the soup
Subtitle: inside the dirty game of doping in sports
By: Mark Johnson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781937715274
Subjects: Doping in sports
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-399) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of doping; title: Pierre de Coubertin and the fair-play myth; title: The fall of Coubertin's ideal; title: The hot Roman day when doping became bad; title: Doping becomes a crime; title: The birth of the World Anti-Doping Agency; title: Doping and the Cold War; title: Anabolic steroids : sports as Sputnik; title: The Reds are winning; title: Spinning Olympic gold : L.A. 1984; title: The sports act delivers : gold in '84; title: Dr. Ferrari was right; title: Fear makes good copy; title: The War on Drugs; title: Amphetamines for all; title: Supplements : government-approved dope; title: Charlie Francis : take it to make it; title: DSHEA, steroids, and baseball's salvation; title: If it's inherited, is it cheating?; title: Moral drift and the American way; title: The spirit of sport.