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Doping and athletics have a storied history. Here are 10 facts on the history of doping in sports.
1. State-sponsored drug programs to give a certain country's athletes a competitive edge date back to the Cold War, but individual athletes have been accused of doping for centuries.
2. In the third century before christ, ancient Greek Olympians attempted to enhance performance by using brandy, wine, hallucinogenic mushrooms and sesame seeds.
3. Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard's "Elixir of Life" was the earliest known performance-enhancing drug in American professional sports. Jim Gavin, a pitcher with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, took it before a game in 1889.
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