Ignoring the less physically demanding events, what do you think? 0%? 50%? 100%? Having been involved in amateur track and field for a considerable time, and having seen the alarming increase in drug taking at this level, I can say with some assurance that it is virtually 100%. Obviously the type and degree of drug taking will vary from athlete to athlete, but they are still, nonetheless, taking them. Most alarming of all, though, is the widening gap between the chemists' new, and increasingly numerous, concoctions, particularly synthetic, and the testers' ability to detect them. Forget about the spin perpetrated by the various authorities, the gap has never been so wide, and is getting wider all the time.
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