The other doping scandal

Oliver Hartwich | The New Zealand Initiative | 28 January 2013

When cyclist Lance Armstrong finally confessed to Oprah that he won all his Tour de France titles by using a cocktail of banned substances, he received widespread condemnation. Rightly so.  Artificially boosting performance by doping not only gains you an unfair advantage over your competitors, it eventually harms your body. Just think of what anabolic steroids did to many female athletes from Eastern Europe during the Cold War.