'Performance enhancing' drugs decrease performance

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/uoa-ed050415.php

Public Release: 4-May-2015
University of Adelaide

Doping is damaging the image of sport without benefitting athletes' results, according to University of Adelaide research.

Researchers from the University's School of Medical Sciences collated sporting records (including Olympic and world records) of male and female athletes across 26 sports, between 1886 and 2012. Comparisons were made between pre-1932 records (when steroids became available) and post, and it was found that the times, distances and other results did not improve as expected in the doping era.

The findings were published in the Journal of Human Sport and Exercise.

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