... for the title, setting a new world record of 9.83 seconds as well. Johnson won both the Lou Marsh Trophy and Lionel Conacher Award, and was named the Associated Press Athlete of the Year for 1987. The East Germans became a sporting powerhouse in the 1970s and '80s, rivalling the much larger United States and Soviet Union. Thousands of East German athletes were given performance-enhancing steroids in an effort to prove East German superiority over the West. Many athletes thought they were simply taking vitamins, but this is a large scale example of systematic drug use for the benefits of winning. Winning provide many things for sports people as it is just the stem of the tree, branching from it comes endorsements, sponsorship, prize money, national and world wide recognition. All of which lead to money! Many athletes would say that they take these "aids" to level the playing field because if ...

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