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 * In the recent Tour de France cycling race, almost half of the racers had taken drugs or steroids
 * Drugs are used to make you stronger
 * lots of baseball players have used steroids so they can hit more homeruns and run faster
 * Babe Ruth (known to be the greatest baseball player of all time) in 22 seasons hit 714 home runs and he never used steroids
 * he also had many other hitting and pitching records
 * Barry Bonds just recently retired after he hit his 762nd homerun, but in my opinion none of them should have counted because he used steroids
 * Some steriods are cortisone and prednisone(they inflame your body to make you stronger)
 * Also another big superstar is Alex Rodriguez took steroids so he could break Barry Bonds homerun record
 * Alex(also known as A-Rod) has already hit 613 homeruns and he is still hitting them left and right and he is only 35
 * sport players started using steroids just before the World Weightlifting Championships of 1954
 * the soviets had made their weightlifting debut in the olympics in Helsinki in 1952 and dominated because they used steroids
 * steroids are usually taken orally or injected typically in cycles rather than continuosly
 * cycling means that they are taken for weeks or for months and then they stop using them and then start back
 * some may combine different types of steroids to maximize their benefits
 * steroids didnt become real popular until the 1980s
 * also Jose Canseco and Roger Clemens used steroids
 * steroids also come in gels and creams
 * these are some photos of what happens when you overdose in steroids
 * [[image:http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/image-files/steroid1.jpg width="212" height="159" align="center" caption="Steroid Side Effects - A"]]
 * [[image:http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/image-files/steroid5.jpg width="212" height="159" align="center" caption="Steroid Side Effects - E"]]
 * [[image:http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/image-files/steroid2.jpg width="212" height="159" align="center" caption="Steroid Side Effects - B"]]
 * the steroid in this picture is called Alpha Pharma Oxydrolone
 * [[image:http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/data/000001/alpha-pharma-oxydrolone.jpg width="608" height="315" caption="Alpha Pharma Oxydrolone" link="http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/steroid-photographs/oxymetholone/Category.aspx"]]
 * this steroid is called Geneza
 * [[image:http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/data/000001/geneza-gp-oxy.jpg caption="Geneza GP Oxy" link="http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/steroid-photographs/oxymetholone/Category.aspx"]]
 * this is a picture of someone getting a cortisone injection
 * [[image:http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/d1b8a09b94944f82 caption="Cortisone injection"]]
 * steroids didnt become real popular until the 1980s
 * also Jose Canseco and Roger Clemens used steroids
 * steroids also come in gels and creams
 * these are some photos of what happens when you overdose in steroids
 * [[image:http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/image-files/steroid1.jpg width="212" height="159" align="center" caption="Steroid Side Effects - A"]]
 * [[image:http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/image-files/steroid5.jpg width="212" height="159" align="center" caption="Steroid Side Effects - E"]]
 * [[image:http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/image-files/steroid2.jpg width="212" height="159" align="center" caption="Steroid Side Effects - B"]]
 * the steroid in this picture is called Alpha Pharma Oxydrolone
 * [[image:http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/data/000001/alpha-pharma-oxydrolone.jpg width="608" height="315" caption="Alpha Pharma Oxydrolone" link="http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/steroid-photographs/oxymetholone/Category.aspx"]]
 * this steroid is called Geneza
 * [[image:http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/data/000001/geneza-gp-oxy.jpg caption="Geneza GP Oxy" link="http://gallery.mesomorphosis.com/steroid-photographs/oxymetholone/Category.aspx"]]
 * this is a picture of someone getting a cortisone injection
 * [[image:http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/d1b8a09b94944f82 caption="Cortisone injection"]]
 * [[image:http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/d1b8a09b94944f82 caption="Cortisone injection"]]


 * [[image:http://www.nndb.com/people/153/000108826/lyle-alzado-1-sized.jpg width="263" height="282" align="right" caption="Lyle Alzado"]]
 * "I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 [in college] and never stopped. It was addicting, mentally addicting. Now I'm sick, and I'm scared. Ninety per cent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be 300 pounds or jump 30 feet. But all the time I was taking steroids, I knew they were making me play better. I became very violent on the field and off it. I did things only crazy people do. Once a guy sideswiped my car and I beat the hell out of him. Now look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this way."


 * There was one time when I was going to a baseball camp and it was sponsered by the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and a proffesional baseball player was going to be there. His name was Brian Roberts (the second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles). In his speech the night before the camp he confessed to taking steroids once before and he said when he took them he had no idea of the effects and when he found out what the effects were he never touched steroids again. There is this one thing he said that i will never forget and it was ( the only way i want to get better is by practicing all the time, not by taking steroids.).
 * [[image:http://www.officialsportsphotos.com/images/products/albert_pujols_06battingaction.jpg align="left"]]
 * this is a picture of Albert Pujols. he has hit so many home runs that its not even funny and he is still hitting them. The best thing about his home runs is that he has never takin steroids.