Doping : did your idol lie to you ?
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Cheating during the Olympic Games has always exised, ever since the event started. However, one of the most common Cheating
method is doping. This cheating method is very recent on a human scale.
It is in 1895 that the first case of doping is noticed, on swimmers in Amsterdam. Despite the first case of death caused by doping, identified
in 1896 on Arthur Linton, due to a Mariani wine 'flavoured' with coca leaf, doping keeps being a common thing in sports, and is even democratized,
efen if it causes severe cardiovascular diseases.
Doping is now noticed in majority in athletic disciplines, especially during cycling races. In athletism, in 2022,
more than 111 cases of doping were listed.
Therefore, to get rid of the issue that doping is, spread world wide, and taking every year almost 800 lives, the first
antidoping fights are eventually born. In France, the first antidoping law is adopted in june of 1965. This law forbids
every single form of doping, regardless of the type or reason, drastically lowering the accident precentages.
Even if things have been set up in order to avoid doping, recently, studies have proven that in the space of a year, doping rates
have raised of a significant 13%. This raise is proving the determination of the athletes to get to a top in their carriers,
even if they have to put their health and in extension themselves in danger.