Dan Jones

Gym junkie

A trip to the local bodybuilders’ gym under the influence of muscle drugs

issue 16 October 2010

A trip to the local bodybuilders’ gym under the influence of muscle drugs

If you want to get ahead in sports, there’s nothing better than a nice big helping of performance-enhancing drugs. Just ask the guys on the Tour de France. At the end of last month the Spanish cyclist and three-times Tour winner Alberto Contador was banned from cycling after testing positive for the illegal anabolic agent Clenbuterol.

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