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Steroids, strength and scandal have gone hand in hand across the landscape of modern sports for decades. In recent years, much of the focus has fallen on Major League Baseball.
Anabolic Steroids are synthetic hormones that promote the retention of protein and the growth of tissue, and their use  -  or abuse  -  can help an athlete build bigger muscles far faster than with workouts alone. The benefits? Both strength and stamina, and the fame and riches enhanced performance can bring. The risks? For athletes, they range from infertility to psychological changes to cancer; for the sports they participate in, the risks include a loss of confidence in the fairness that is the basis of all successful competitive sports.
As a result, most sports have banned Steroids use. But committed underground suppliers and users of Steroids have often stayed a step ahead of even the most stringent testing programs.

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Steroids came to weight lifting in Russia during the 1950s, and to America by 1960. By the end of the decade, other elite athletes had discovered the drugs. For nearly two decades, starting in the late 1960s, East German women dominated the international sports stage, aided by an organized system of anabolic steroid use. Despite strong testing procedures, steroid-related scandal has continued to follow the Olympic Games, the Tour de France and major professional sports.
Not all revelations of steroid use are accompanied by outrage. An admitted former user of Steroids, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is governor of California. Professional wrestling, where steroid use has been widely documented, has been a ratings leader on cable television for years.
STEROIDS IN BASEBALL
In recent years, Major League Baseball has suffered through continued revelations of widespread steroid use among players. Some of baseball's most cherished storylines of the past decade have been tainted by performance-enhancing drugs, including the accomplishments of record-setting home run hitters and dominating pitchers.
Fay Vincent, baseball's commissioner from 1989 to 1992, tried to crack down on steroids in his last year in the job. In June 1991, he sent every major league club a memo saying all illegal drug use was "strictly prohibited" by law, "cannot be condoned or tolerated" and could result in discipline or expulsion. Vincent specifically highlighted steroids in the memo.
The next year, Bud Selig became commissioner. Through the 1990s, Selig and the players union played down the issue. "If baseball has a problem, I must say candidly that we were not aware of it," Selig said in 1995.
In 2000, The New York Times reported that steroids were rampant in baseball, but a baseball spokesman said they "have never been much of an issue." In 2002, after a Sports Illustrated cover story said baseball "had become a pharmacological trade show," the commissioner and the union finally agreed on a testing policy.
Baseball first tested for steroids in 2003. If more than 5 percent of players failed the tests, penalties would be imposed starting in 2004, which is what happened. Roughly 100 players tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. The penalty for a first offense was treatment, and for five violations, a one-year suspension.
The results from that season were supposed to remain anonymous. But for reasons that have never been made clear, the results were never destroyed and the first batch of positives has come to be known among fans and people in baseball as "the list." Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Jason Grimsley and David Segui were eventually tied to positive tests from that year.
In late 2005, baseball toughened its penalties, and by early 2006 appointed George Mitchell to conduct an independent investigation of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.
Through the 2007 season, that inquiry loomed over what should have been one of the great moments of recent baseball history: Barry Bonds's successful chase of Hank Aaron's all-time home run record. In November 2007, Bonds was indicted on federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to his grand jury testimony in a steroids case. He is awaiting trial.

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