Towards A Natural for Life Movement in Sport: Health Implications, Cheating, And Why Anabolic Steroid Users Should Be Banned for Life

It is not unreasonable to state that sport plays a significant part in modern life. Indeed, sport has now positioned itself as a noteworthy cultural framework that, through professional sport and various international sport competitions, is firmly entrenched in global economic, societal, and political systems..

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