Monday, April 23, 2007
Steroids in High School

Much more than wins and losses are on the line in today's world of high school sports. Lives are being altered — even lost — to the use of performance-enhancing substances that have made their way to the corridors and playing fields of the nation's high schools. Congress went on to hear from commissioners of the major sports, pro athletes, medical specialists and labor representatives, and the No. 1 concern expressed was steroid use by young athletes.

Sports Weekly wanted to hear directly from this impressionable group considered most at risk and recently conducted a round table discussion with athletes from schools in the metropolitan Washington area. Some of the revelations:

  • Use of performance-enhancing substances takes place openly in the locker rooms, weight rooms and cafeterias of public and private high schools.
  • Coaches, as well as athletes, know what's going on but are often powerless to stop the use of performance enhancers. Some, in fact, are willing to turn a blind eye.
  • The pressure to win is enormous. That pressure extends to athletes, who are also competing for college scholarships, coaches and administrators.
  • Although the vast majority of student-athletes consider steroid use "cheating" and acknowledge some degree of risk, some remain willing to sacrifice long-term health for short-term benefits.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/2005-06-08-sports-weekly-steroids-report_x.htm

According to a survey by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, steroid use among high school students more than doubled between 1991 and 2003. More than 6% of 15,000 students surveyed admitted trying steroid pills or injections. At the same time, less than 4% of the nation's high schools were testing for steroids, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations' survey of athletic directors.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Barry Bonds: Before and After
This is the before and after of the alleged substance use of Barry Bonds.
Him in his rookie year at the Pirates to now at San Francisco. What do you think? Do you think that he has been on steroids or its just that people are jealous of him because he has been working hard to become who he has today and going after the Homerun record who is held by Hank Aarron.
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Jerome Young: What Did you Do?

The ex-husband of Marion Jones, Jerome Young, was yet another victim of steroid use and was given a life time ban from competing at track and field events.


Jerome Young (born: August 14, 1976) in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. His reputation as a sprinter has been tarnished as he was caught doping in 1999 casting suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career. Jerome was one of many athletes caught cheating via usage of performance enhancing drugs in what is now being considered the decade of steroids in sports (1993-2003). At the height of olympic committee steroid investigations, several other athletes (Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene, Donovan Bailey etc...) have conveniently retired from the track field stage leaving many drug abuse investigators forever apprehensive concerning the veracity and reliability of the marks they have all left in stadiums across the globe.
In 1995, as a senior in high school, Jerome set a Connecticut state record of 45.01 in the 400. Jerome was part of the world record breaking 4 x 400 metres relay team in 1998 along with Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew, and Tyree Washington.

On June 29 2004 the IAAF announced the following:

The Court of Arbitration of Sport has decided that the Doping Appeal Board of USATF reached an erroneous decision when exonerating Jerome Young of a doping offence and that, accordingly,


Jerome Young did indeed commit a Doping Offence on 26 June 1999. Jerome Young currently resides in Raleigh, NC as a sprinting coach at Millbrook High School. Jerome also teaches special education at the high school.



Young ran in the opening heat and semifinal round of the relay in the 2000 Olympics. Michael Johnson anchored the team in the final to win the last of his 14 Olympic and world championship gold medals. Other members of the team were Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, and twin brothers Alvin and Calvin Harrison.



Because of this dilemma, the team's gold medal from the Olympic Games were revoked.
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