A selection of international sporting personalities. In each case, name the person and the drug associated with them.
Questions copyright Mike Ward and John Hodgson, reproduced with permission.
Taken from a recent quiz organised by College Hill Life Sciences.
49. Lance Armstrong—EPO
44. Ben Johnson—steroids (stanozonol)
41-50. Stupidity.
I’m not even going to look as I don’t know anything about sport. Or drugs, of course.
Crime fiction, now…
Oh, but now the picture has gone big I can see Ian Botham (47). Cricket, before it got commercialised out of all recognition, was an interest of mine. (The preceding statement shows how old I am!). Did Botham take drugs? What a calumny, I am sure it was only a little bit of something very mild and harmless.
Henry Gee said: 41-50. Stupidity.
Er…and the money.
Botham was cannabis, IIRC (I think he was charged when the police found some in his house in Epworth in the 80s). Oh, and alcohol.
Is 41 Carl Lewis?
I would take a wild guess at 42 as Tom Simpson, who took amphetamines whilst cycling, and died in the saddle.
45 – Maradona, all sorts of recreational stuff – I think he was treated for cocaine addiction. Or is it Peter Shilton they mean?
48 must have taken growth hormones. :-)
50 – Bjarne Riis? I think he was EPO, as well as whatever else everyone was taking then.
It’s hard to see number 41, but I think it’s Pele. He advertised viagra a few years ago.
Isn’t ‘sports personalities’ an oxymoron?
I think 43 is an imposter. A Brit winning 5 Olympic medals?
I guess the drug must be the chocolate in the medals.
Must be that hurler, Bob. (where they whizz little black things (LBTs) along some surface towards a peg, and the LBTs veer off at the last minute while the “hurler” drinks a pint and watches, sucking in breath). That’s the kind of sport that Brits do well at.
Oh, Ok, there’s the drug, then—hops.
Is number 48 Magic? If so it must be an HIV-related drug, yes? AZT’s the only one I can name, so I’ll go with that.
50. Floyd Landis – Testosterone – Tour de France 2006