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Olympians have been bending (and occasionally breaking) the rules in an effort to give themselves an edge over the competition since the games began. Despite this, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) only started testing for performance enhancing substances in 1968, and only seem to have really started taking the issue seriously in the 1990s.
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Sources:
http://www.insidethegames.biz/history/olympics/1968-mexico-city
http://london2012.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/friday-flashback-sometimes-being-first-doesnt-mean-victory/?_r=0
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yCzbk7F8DGgC&pg=PA37&dq=Hans-Gunnar+Liljenwall&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAWoVChMI_fCF9I38xwIVQk0aCh3NFgxQ#v=onepage&q=Hans-Gunnar%20Liljenwall&f=false
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