2—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Feb. 9, 1984 Steroids When a, dozen U.S. athletes left the Pan American Games this past summer, America signalled its entry in the anabolic steroids race. Surprised by more thorough testing and threats of year-long suspensions, the athletes ,decided to head home rather than risk the tests. For years, the United States had accused 'Eastern Europeans, particularly women, of ingesting such an unfair advantage. Now it is ,impossible to deny, that we too have found steroids a worthwhile risk to better our per f Orma nces. __ Last August in Caracas, for instance, 21- 'year-old weightlifter Jeff Michels of Chicago won all three gold medals in 242-pound class. *Michels was charged by meet officials of - using 'illegal drugs' and was immediately -suspended for a year. The United States, then, be without perhaps its best weightlifter lor the Olympics this Summer. 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Ziegler began giving anabolic steroids to weightlifters and at first found impressive 7.Wa. • says • • • 1314/Cll4 . , - 4 1 c 4.• ,:„. ' . 0 , Arit '' ' • titi; ;:'' . lis., I 1( 9:39-3:39 Thurs. 9:30 . -8:30 • 814/238-1987 Posters • Prints • Cards • Gifts Items and of course, The Most COMPLETE SELECTION of Art, Architecture & Engineering Supplies! • results, but became horrified when he began to notice changes other than muscle growth in the weightlifters. Among the results he re ported was a shrinking of the testes and increased aggression, A Dr. Frankenstien scenario ensued. , Ziegler quickly withdrew from the study while his 'subjects,' delighted with their rap idly improved performances, took more and more pills. Ziegler, to his credit, became an ardent opponent to anabolic steroids, though his protests mostly fell on deaf ears,. Terry Todd of Sports Illustrated spoke to Ziegler not long ago. "I honestly believe," Ziegler told him, "that if I'd told people back then that rat manure would make them strong; they'd have eaten rat manure. What I failed to realize until it was too late was that most lifters had obsessive pergonalities. To them, if two tablets were good, four tablets would be better." Over the' years, drug manufacturers have changed the molecular structure of the hor mone to minimize such properties. But clear ly, dangers persist. The first solid reports on steroids are coming in and the news isn't pretty. Those who have used steroids for a prolonged period have been subject to testi& ular atrophy, enlargement of the prostate, liver problems and a decrease in sperm count. For women, the problem can be even more severe. Taking a male hormone, not surprisingly, tends to increase masculine characteristics in a person. A woman with more masculine traits would have a distinct edge, over a normal woman in sports where bulk produced an advantage. They would come nearer to a man's potential in sport. But as a margarine commercial once insisted, "it's not nice to fool mother nature." Studies on women who have takedanabolic steroids show that the clitoris frequently becomes greatly enlarged and often , women develop chest and facial hair. Their voices deepen and other secondary male character istics begin to appear. Such was the case of Renate Neufield. She recently described how her native country, East Germany, prepared its athletes. Neu field, then 20-years-old, said that' while train ing for the 1980 Olympics, she had been told to take drugs supplied by her coaches. Neufield discovered almost immedately that these drugs had painful side affects; her legs grew, her muscles hardened painfully An umbrella, a frisbee, or both. The Biggest Little St' It's hard to resist flame-broiled sirloin tips, smothered M onions and mushrooms, served with the World's Biggest, Best Salad Buffet, hot soup, baked potato, and roll with butter. 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Neufield fled to West Germany soon after where Professor Manfred Donike fied the drugs she had been taking as anabolid steroids. . , In a now well-known study on female rhesus monkeys given . male hormonds early in their pregnancies, larger problems come to light: The monkeys delivered offspring that' were dramatically abnormal. , • „ Some athletes, clearly, think that the risk of anabolic steroids on themselves and their future children is a worthwhile trade for athletic excellence. Many athletes, however, would rather compete of the strengths of their own bodies. In order to survive in sports, the latter might be forced to take steroids merely to remain in the race. Anabolic steroids ar,' banned for some very sound medical reasons But more importantly, what is left in corripec 7, itive sports if fair competition goes? Todd Benoit is a senior majoring in English . and a sports columnist for The Dailly Colie-. 41984 Ponderosa, Inc. 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