Have you ever watched the Olympics and wondered how the athletes are so strong and fast? The International Olympic Committee (IOC) certainly did. Every year athletes come up with new ways to improve their performance and make it harder for Olympic drug tests to detect banned substances. As performance-enhancing drugs become increasingly difficult to control, the burden of trying to keep the Olympics as clean as possible falls on the shoulders of the IOC. Drug use at the Olympics is not a new idea. Since the times of runners and javelin throwers of ancient Greece and Rome, athletes had been searching for supposedly magical potions (Corelli, par. 1). With competition getting stronger over the years, athletes have sought to beat their opponents by any means necessary. In 1904, American Thomas Hicks won the marathon fueled by a combination of brandy and strychnine, a nerve stimulant (Corelli, par. 1). Soviet weightlifters of the 1950s discovered the benefits of steroids (Cowley and Brant, para. 4). The 1956 hammer throw champion admitted to having taken muscle-building steroids for the previous eight years (Corelli, para. 1). But when an autopsy found amphetamines in the blood of Danish cyclist Knut Enemark Jensen when he fell and fractured his skull, the IOC had had enough of drugs in sport. The IOC introduced testing in 1968 at the Mexico City Games and made it all-encompassing in Munich in 1972 (Corelli, para. 1). Even though the tests were carried out, forty-four athletes since 1972 have still been caught at the Olympics. Considering the fact that the Olympics are the most tested sporting event in the world, the situation...... paper......ney.Will the games be clean? Not A Chance." "Time." 156.11 (September 11, 2000): 90+. Infotrac Web: Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale Group. October 16, 2000. Corelli, Rae. "Drug Detectives: Technological Wizardry Will Try to Keep Clean the Olympics, but is it enough?" Maclean. 109.30 (22 July 1996): 28. InfoTrac Web: Academic program expanded to the maximum soon. Gale Group. October 16, 2000. Cowley, Geoffrey and Martha Brant. "Doped to Perfection: Can the Cheaters Be Stopped?" Gale. October 31, 2000 "Stoned on the Ice." The Economist. 306.7537 (February 13 1988): 81(2). Academic expansion soon 2000>.