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4. Give a urine sample. 5. Pour your sample into two bottles for sealing and sending to the lab. 6. Sign a statement that the test was done properly. 7. Then you can leave.

10. DOES “UNDER CONSTANT OBSERVATION” MEAN THAT SOMEONE WILL BE WATCHING ME EVEN WHEN GIVING MY URINE SAMPLE?

Yes, you will be observed at all times. your same gender will observe you while you are urinating. This protects you by assuring that the urine sample that you give is indeed your own, and by assuring that the urine sample that each of your competitors gives is indeed his or her own.

11. HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO GIVE THE URINE SAMPLE?

As long as it takes. Beverages will be on hand to help. Alcohol-containing beverages are not allowed.

Stefan Fernholin — Olympic Discus Thrower: “Steroids are really overrated. You become great by a lot of hard smart work in the weight room and combining that with technique, flexibility, sprints, and plyometric training.”

Editors Note: The United States Olympic Committee has prepared a brochure on Substance Abuse. Presented here are exerpts from that, brochure. Their Drug Control Hotline is 1-800-2330393.

12. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ME TO GET ANABOLIC STEROIDS OUT OF MY BODY?

Fat soluble injectable types ............ 6 to 8 months Oral or water soluble types ............ 3 to 6 weeks 13. AREN'T THERE SOME DRUGS THAT CAN BE TAKEN TO “MASK” OR COVER UP THE STEROIDS AND OTHER DRUGS? NO! Those who dilute their urine will be detained at the Test Station for a less dilute sample. Those who provide alkaline urine will be detained until an acid sample ts provided. The lab is capable of “seeing through” many other masking efforts.

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WHAT IS RANDOM TESTING?

“Random Testing” means that only a fraction of the athletes registered at an occasion in which drug testing ANABOLIC STERIOD USE? is conducted will be selected and that the selection Changing moods, generally paranoid and hostile, process is determined principally by luck.

For example, increased sexual appetite, darkening skin, acne—face at a National Championship, most of the medalists and and back, patchy hair growth, enlargement of breasts perhaps one-fifth of the remaining athletes may be and reddened nipples, lowered voice, abdominal pain, selected, with the selections made in an impersonal particularly right side; pain and blood on urination, manner which gives every registrant equal opportunity atrophy of testicles, amenorrhea (loss of menstrual to be chosen. periods), swollen face (cushingoid or half-moon appearance), increased blood pressure.

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE TESTING STATION?

Under constant observation by a testing ofÏcial, you will be asked to do the following: L. Select a container for your urine sample.

2. Select a number to be used to identify your Contact the USOC Drug Control Hotline 1750 East Boulder Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80909 1-800-233-0393 sample. 3. Tell the physician of every medication you have taken in the past few days. 7

From BFS Magazine — September/October 1988. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).