Since the far-flung scandal that was centered around Spanish doctor Euphemiano Fuentes and his clients broke, even the most die-hard sports fans must have realized that doping is an integral part of high-performance athletics. The sponsors, network television, ambitious sports-club functionaries, unscrupulous managers and coaches obsessed with winning, have all made top sporting events a big business while running them into a blind alley. Blood and Games reviews the red-letter dates and cases of doping. It exposes the lie that "It's just a few bad apples."

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