A steroid is a type of organic compound that include the dietary fat cholesterol, the sex hormones estradiol and testosterone, and the antiinflammatory drug dexamethasone. Many people have had their lives ruined by the use of illegal steroids, yet the desired effects are so overwhelming that people tend to overlook the consequences. Steroid users believe taking anabolic steroids will enhance their performance, strength and size. People still use the drug for muscular gain worth sickness, disease or fatality, even though they know the risks.
The story of steroid use in sports began just before the World Weightlifting Championships of 1954. The Soviets had made their Olympic debut in Helsinki in 1952, and easily dominated most of the weight classes. When the team physician of the US, Dr. Ziegler questioned the soviet team’s doctor about the secret of their victory, the doctor said that his team had been receiving testosterone injections. That was the first time anyone had ever used anabolic steroids to enhance performance in an athletic event.
When Dr. Ziegler returned from the World Weightlifting Championships, he immediately began researching testosterone and trying to develop something better for his Athletes. He developed, “Methandrostenolone” or Dianabol in 1956, the first anabolic steroid. In the early 1960s, Ziegler’s weightlifters dominated in weightlifting. Dianabol was quickly made available to anyone looking for an extra edge. It helped many bodybuilders, weightlifters, football players, and Olympic athletes more efficiently. As all steroids can do, it enhanced protein synthesis and allowed new muscle to be built at a rate that was much more rapid than would otherwise be possible. And that increased muscle power and strength translated into financial rewards for the athletes who were taking them.
In 1968 there was an official complaint about steroids made by the World Health Organization. The ban on anabolic steroids was enacted for ethical and moral concerns. In 1972, an American swimmer named Rick De Mont was found to be using a newly banned substance- ephedrine. Now use of steroids is totally banned in all sports and strict action is taken again players taking steroids.