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Drugs in Sport

Episode 24 of 3

Paul Dimeo argues that drugs saved the Olympics, popularised cycling and made modern sport what it is today.

Paul Dimeo argues that drugs made modern sport what it is today, and that we ought to take a more sympathetic view of those athletes whose will to win takes them outside the rules of the game.
Paul believes the entire Olympic movement was saved by the drug-fuelled rivalry between the United States, Soviet Union and East Germany, and makes the case that drugs dramatically enliven sport as a spectacle and as a talking point.
Producer: Giles Edwards.

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Wed 9 Oct 2013 20:45

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