Mitchell Report - Report Findings

Report Findings

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Doping in sport
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  • Anabolic steroids
  • Blood doping
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Terminology
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  • Whereabouts system
  • Whizzinator
History
  • Olympics
  • Tour de France (2007)
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  • Barry Bonds perjury case
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  • Mitchell Report
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  • Steroid use in baseball
  • USC steroid scandal
Doping-related lists
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  • Drugs banned from the Olympics
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  • MLB players in the Mitchell Report
Anti-doping bodies
  • World Anti-Doping Agency
  • Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
  • Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage
  • United States Anti-Doping Agency

The report describes motivations for its preparation, including health effects of steroids, legal issues, fair play, and reports that baseball players acted as role models for child athletes. For example, after news coverage in August 1998 that Mark McGwire had used the then-legal androstenedione, a steroid precursor, sales of the supplement increased over 1000%, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that 8% of male high school senior athletes had used androstenedione in 2001.

Mitchell reported that during the random testing in 2003, 5 to 7 percent of players tested positive for steroid use. Players on the forty-man roster of major league teams were exempt from testing until 2004. One player is quoted: "Forty-man guys already have all of the club advantages, and then they could use steroids . . . it was not a level playing field."

According to the report, after mandatory random testing began in 2004, HGH became the substance of choice among players, as it was not then detectable in tests. Also, it was noted that at least one player from each of the thirty Major League Baseball teams was involved in the alleged violations.

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