DOPE FOR ATHLETES
-Own Correspondent.)
Several Instances Reported
(Bv Air Mail—
LONDON, April 28. The "dopingf o-f racehorses is an old and dishonoured practice, but recently several athletic societies on the Continent have had to issue* warnings against the same sort of treatment of human beings. There. have been several cases of athletes taking drugs in order to increase tbeir energy or strength for a contest. It was during the war that human doping of this sort begari to be widely practised. Stories were common of the amazingi increase of energy gained by German Stormtroops, thanks to doses of acid sodium phosphate. _ These claiins Jiave since been investigated and found to be false. The truth is that such chemicals can produce a certain result by temiporarily masking fatigue ; but their use cannot increase muscular strength. An athlete who takes a dose of sodium pliosphate is trying to stimulate his body to an abnormal effort ; but he ought to be able to do this by psychological means. Everybody knows that excitement, whether fear or desire to win, makes a man.able to do things he could not ordinarily do.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 112, 28 May 1937, Page 6
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