steroid use in sports

The story of steroid use in soorts began just before the world weight lifting Champions ship of 1954, the soviets had made their olimpic debut in 1952, that wasn't, however, the first time anabolic performance Enhancement had been antermpted as for back as the original olimpic games in ancient greece, athletes ingested recurses herbs and foods with the hopes of improving their performance, the big vinemes in the 480B.C olimpic games in 1957
The use of performances -drugs (PEDs) has had a long history at the Olimpics games. Its origins can be traced back to the Ancient olimpics where Olympians would eat lizard meat prepared a special way, in the hopes that it would give them an athletic edge. The first documented use of drugs to improve an athlete's performance was the winner of the 1904 marathon, Thomas Hicks  who was injected with Strychine. The use of performance-enhancing medication has also been attributed to one death during Olympic competition. As rumors of rampant drug use by athletes began to spreadso International Olimpics Competition (IOC) decided to act. By 1967, the IOC had banned the use of performance enhancing drugs in Olympic competition. The IOC introduced the first drug use  controls at the 1968 winter olimpics.