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Trevor Schmidt
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Crackdown on Drug Use in E-Game Tournaments It's not a sport until you have to test for performance enhancing drugs. Anti-doping policy comes to competitive video gaming. Cycling has Lance Armstrong, baseball ARod. Now the sport many of you likely have never seen has its own poster child for doping; his name is Kory Friesen and the sport is competitive video gaming. Electronic sports has a performance-enhancing drug problem, and now they have an antidoping program to go with it. Championship series 'League of Legends' play-off in Turkey, 2013 Photo: Mamadou278
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