Editorials

Imag­ine this: A youth sees a weightlift­ing exhi­bi­tion at his high school. Impressed by the dis­play of strength, skill, and speed he decides to learn Olympic lift­ing. He walks into a gym, engages the ser­vices of a coach, and learns the lifts. His peers, curi­ous of his new activ­ity, fol­low him to the gym. Some of them become inter­ested in the sport and par­tic­i­pate. Before long, some of their friends and con­tem­po­raries also become engaged in the sport…
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Base­ball fans have reacted hys­ter­i­cally to Jason Giambi’s admis­sion of steroid use. Steroids per­me­ated the Amer­i­can weightlift­ing scene in the 1960’s, about 40 years before we hear the com­plete naiveté about steroid use expressed by many.
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Whether the use of per­for­mance enhanc­ing drugs in pro­fes­sional sports is proper has become a topic of con­tentious debate. The under­ly­ing theme of a recent book by Jose Canseco, the for­mer major league base­ball player who has admit­ted to tak­ing …
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